European refugee crisis
Trump: Merkel made 'catastrophic mistake' with refugee policy
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump will begin his presidency by putting German Chancellor Angela Merkel –an ally—on the same footing as adversary Vladimir Putin, the President-Elect revealed in a new interview....
EU is set to pay big bucks to keep migrants in Africa
BRUSSELS — The European Union has earmarked hundreds of millions of euros for the northern African nation of Niger as part of its efforts to stop migrants from reaching Europe....
Hundreds of refugees feared dead in shipwrecks off Libya
Almost 180 refugees were pulled to safety in the Mediterranean on Thursday — but as many as 240 were feared drowned in two shipwrecks off the Libyan coast, according to...
Evacuated migrants set fire to 'Jungle' refugee camp in France
CALAIS, France — Large portions of the makeshift camp known as "the jungle" in northern France went up in flames Wednesday, as departing migrants set fire to shelters before being...
France starts to shut down 'Jungle' refugee camp in Calais
French authorities kicked off an operation Monday to clear out a notorious, sprawling camp dubbed the “Jungle" — busing out about 1,600 migrants and shattering their dreams of reaching Britain....
Singer Lily Allen apologizes to refugees in Calais, France
Allen was moved to tears after meeting a 13-year-old boy from Afghanistan who told her he was trying to be reunited with his father in England.
Camerawoman indicted for 2015 assault on migrants
BUDAPEST, Hungary — The camerawoman who was filmed kicking and trying to trip migrants near Hungary's border with Serbia in September 2015 has been indicted for breaching the peace, Hungarian...
The UK is building a wall to keep out migrants
The Brits are building a wall – and they won’t even make Mexico pay for it. The British government has taken a chapter from Donald Trump’s campaign playbook by announcing...
This house looks like it's wearing a giant pink sweater
NYC-based artist Olek was inspired to create the "Pink House" after hearing stories of displaced female refugees. She worked with Syrian and Ukrainian refugees to crochet enough yarn to cover the entire...
US hits goal of taking in 10,000 Syrian refugees
EL CAJON, Calif. — On Sunday, Nadim Fawzi Jouriyeh participated in a ceremony in Amman, Jordan, to mark the United States hitting its target of taking in 10,000 Syrian refugees...
Newborn twins among thousands of refugees saved at sea
Five-day-old twins were among the thousands of refugees and migrants saved in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday. The miracle babies, delivered prematurely at just eight months, were traveling with their...
Yazidi sets herself on fire to avoid ISIS sex slavery
She was finally safe in a refugee camp in Iraq, but in her head, she still heard the demons — ISIS militants coming to rape and torture her yet again....
Hungarian politician suggests scaring refugees with pig heads
A Hungarian politician has proposed a piggish tactic to keep Muslim refugees out of his country – by lining the border with severed hog heads. Gyorgy Schopflin, a member of...
Syrian asylum-seeker kills pregnant woman with machete in Germany
BERLIN — A Syrian asylum-seeker killed a pregnant woman with a machete and wounded two others Sunday outside a bus station in the southwestern German city of Reutlingen, as the...
Migrant tries to sneak out of country in suitcase
This guy's no Harry Houdini! A 21-year-old man’s disappearing act nearly got him into Switzerland, but border patrol officers figured out his trick before he made it across. Guards were...
Bodies of more than 100 migrants wash ashore in Libya
Warning: Graphic images The bodies of more than 100 migrants and refugees washed ashore on the beaches along Libya’s Mediterranean coast on Friday, drowned after their boat capsized while attempting...
Hundreds of refugees rescued from sinking boat
ATHENS, Greece — Four bodies were recovered and 340 people rescued Friday from a sinking migrant boat carrying a "significant number" of people in the Mediterranean Sea south of the...
Mediterranean Sea disasters swallow up over 1,000 migrants
GENEVA — The treacherous Mediterranean Sea crossing from Libya to Italy has claimed the lives of over 1,030 migrants in the last week, mostly as barely seaworthy smuggling boats foundered...
This lifeless baby is the tragic face of the migrant crisis
This heartbreaking photo of a drowned infant being cradled by a German rescuer emerged as a symbol of the migrant waves that most recently claimed hundreds of lives off the...
Packed migrant ship overturns near Libya
This is the heartbreaking moment a large, wooden fishing boat jampacked with more than 500 migrants capsized off the coast of Libya, killing seven people on Wednesday, officials said. Photographs...