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Italy

Italy vs Switzerland: Who sends home more irregular migrants?

Far-right Lega Nord leader Matteo Salvini promised to “fill planes and send immigrants home” but the number of repatriations as actually fallen.

Spain

Could this drone help save migrant lives in the Mediterranean?

Spanish engineers are developing a specially-adapted drone that can aid lifesaving migrant search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea.

World

Trump announces 5% tariffs on Mexico in response to migrants

President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he is placing a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports to pressure the country over migrants trying to cross the U.S. border.

Greece

Watch: Diving club volunteers saving migrants off Greece

"When we go to help refugees and find dead children, in their eyes we see the souls and eyes of our own children,” said diver Stelios Hatziandreou.

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Greece

Inside the migrants' jungle in Samos

A former political science lecturer and civil rights activist, Sarah fled Uganda where her security was at risk. She has been surviving in the so-called migrants "jungle" on the greek island of Samos for 8 months. She takes us on a tour of what she calls hell on earth.

Libya

'They started to shoot": NGOs raise alarm on Libyan detention centres

Migrants and refugees caught in the Mediterranean are brought back to Libya and kept in detention centres where they are particularly vulnerable.

World

Stateless in Europe: 'I was never given the chance to feel European'

Second-generation migrants who are living as stateless citizens in Greece have claimed they have no say in their own future, ahead of the European elections.

France

France intercepts boat with nine migrants on board in English Channel

One of the migrants was a minor suffering from mild hypothermia, French authorities said in a statement.

Europe News

Libyan ambassador to the EU: Libya is seeking international guarantees

As the UN and the EU ask for a ceasefire in Libya, the national unity government asks for a strong signal from the International community

Tunisia

'They went under one after one': Survivor recounts migrant boat horror

A survivor of a migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean has told how he watched fellow passengers slip away and sink to their deaths.

World News

'Masked men beat us': Greece accused of violent asylum pushbacks

Scores of Turkish asylum seekers have been pushed back — sometimes violently — from Greece in the last three weeks, lawyers and family members told Euronews.

Tunisia

Death toll from Tunisia migrant ship disaster rises to 65

It's prompted warnings that more migrants will die unless search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean are strengthened.

My Europe Series

Migrants and Greeks in Samos share anger and despair

Samos is less than two kilometres away from the Turkish coast and it's one of several so-called "hotspots" for asylum seekers on the Greek islands of the north Aegean Sea.

World

Migrants increasingly risk lives arriving in Greece by river or sea

Migrants put their lives on the line trying to get from Turkey to Greece, crossing by boat to the Greek city of Alexandropouli, Greece, or crossing the Evros river on the border to make it to Europe. Euronews correspondents Fay Doulgkeri and Bryan Carter report.

USA

Trump admin expands collecting biometric data from migrants

DHS has stepped up the collection of biometric data from migrants families, with a DNA testing pilot program and the fingerprinting of children.

Cyprus

Cyprus police find another victim of online dating serial killer

Police in Cyprus found human remains on Sunday in an ongoing investigation into a suspected serial killer who went undetected for almost three years.

World News

Migrants drowning in Mediterranean 'unacceptable,' says Ska Keller

"We know where they are drowning and we are not helping at all. We're even stopping people who want to help and this is something I don't want to see in the European Union," the Green candidate for the EU's top job told Euronews.

USA

FBI arrests alleged member of armed group stopping migrants

"The rule of law should be in the hands of trained law enforcement officials, not armed vigilantes," New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said.

Malta

Malta allows dozens of migrants to land

They were stranded at sea after being rescued off Libya by a rescue ship run by the German charity Sea Eye.

The Cube

Salvini uses dated photo of migrants sparking controversy | #TheCube

#TheCube | You may recognise this image from last summer when migrant rescue ship Aquarius saved over 140 people stranded at sea. It appears that Interior Minister of Italy, Salvini did not, however when sharing it this week on his Twitter account.