Rescuers pick up hundreds of migrants near Libyan coast
More than 350 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast in two days.
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More than 350 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast in two days.
The bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were found after the container arrived from Europe in October 2019.
The deal will see more police deployed in the route.
The findings are contained in a new report by the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland.
Charities said the findings were “extremely disturbing” and show the “brutal reality of how refugee children are treated in Priti Patel’s Britain”.
Up to 200 people gathered outside a military barracks in Kent where asylum-seekers are being housed.
Greek authorities have said the fires on Tuesday and Wednesday evening were deliberately set by some of the camp’s residents.
Armagh haulier Ronan Hughes pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey today to 39 counts of manslaughter.
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1,004 migrants were brought ashore by Border Force between 4 August and 13 August.
The Home Office said more than 130 migrants made it to the UK in 13 boats yesterday.
The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland said there had been a ‘gross and serious breach of confidentiality’.
The children will be received into the care of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.
The council’s impact report for 2019 has been published today.
Five people died and seven others went missing while their boat was in distress off Malta’s coast this week.
The plan, available for a month only and based on a €2,000 stipend, is only open to those who arrived in Greece before 1 January.
Turkey’s decision to ease border restrictions came amid a Russia-backed Syrian government offensive into a Syrian province.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened his country’s borders with Europe.
Many female asylum seekers and refugees in Ireland are living with depression, anxiety and PTSD, a new report has found.
Six coastguard patrol boats and three helicopters were engaged in the continuing rescue effort.
The eight people are all reported to be male.
A local councillor told RTÉ that the men and boys may have believed they were bound for the UK.
The man was arrested on the M40 motorway in Buckinghamshire.
The men are aged from 20 to 40 and are said to be in good health.
The people found received medical attention at the port.
Vietnam’s foreign ministry said it would help but that families would have to foot the bill.
Two 15-year-old boys are among the dead.
A Cork-based company confirmed their vehicle was seized in the incident.
The recent discovery of 39 bodies in a lorry in Essex has put the crisis back under the spotlight.
Investigators initially believed the migrants were of Chinese origin.
Maurice Robinson has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter, conspiracy to traffic people and money laundering.
The man was wearing a makeshift life jacket made of empty plastic bottles.
356 migrants have been stranded aboard the Ocean Viking boat in the Mediterranean.
Some of the people on board have spent months or years in Libyan detention camps, suffering torture and sexual abuse.
The announcement comes amid a war of words between Italy’s interior minister and the premier.
ICE agents were expected to conduct raids in at least 10 major cities yesterday.
The US Vice President said the situation at the border is a “crisis that is overwhelming our system”.
His comments come after reports over the weekend described one centre in Texas as filled with hundreds of children wearing filthy clothes.
The tragedy comes after 44 migrants were killed in an air strike on their detention centre in Libya.
Meanwhile, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has condemned the attack.