[ad_1] The Turkish Coast Guard rescued 51 irregular migrants and captured 13 others off the coast of Izmir province. According to a statement Wednesday on the Coast Guard’s website, two rubber boats carrying irregular migrants off the coast of Urla and Dikili districts drifted due to engine failure and requested assistance. Coast guard boats were…
[ad_1] Sixty-one migrants, including women and children, drowned following a shipwreck off Libya, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Libya said. IOM, in a post on social media platform X, quoted survivors as saying the boat, carrying around 86 people, departed the Libyan city of Zwara, about 110 km (68 miles) from the capital,…
[ad_1] Thousands of people were marching in the streets near Montparnasse train station in southern Paris on a recent Sunday afternoon. They were holding signs proclaiming their opposition to the “Darmanin law,” named after France’s interior minister. Other placards said, “Immigration is not a problem ― racism is.” Right at the front of the group,…
[ad_1] The Italian government, struggling with a surge in arriving migrants, on Monday passed measures to lengthen the time they can be detained and ensure more people who have no legal right to stay are repatriated, government officials said. The move came after almost 10,000 migrants reached the southern Italian island of Lampedusa last week,…
[ad_1] As many as 16 people have lost their lives as a wooden boat apparently carrying migrants overturned off the coast of Senegal late Sunday, with officials still expecting more bodies to be found as they continue their search. “The navy told the vessel to draw alongside and they fled,” district deputy mayor Samba Kandji…
