Migrant Crisis

Mitsotakis vows to replace Moria facility for 12,000 and turn ‘problem into opportunity’

Germany says it will accept up to 150 minors despite cities saying they can take in more

Greek government says housing will take days as some test positive for Covid-19

Prime minister warns asylum seekers will not be allowed leave Lesbos for mainland

Wooden boat carrying passengers including 181 women and 14 children arrives in Aceh

Tell Me About It: I’m fed up with the intolerance and considering moving to a different city

United Nations agencies call for a safe port to be granted to rescue ships

Vessel caught fire as Italian naval ship was taking people on board

UN refugee agency urges nations to take in hundreds of migrants stranded at sea

Hope-fuelled treks from horror to reach UK show how security blocks off options

Berlin Letter: What is striking about arrival of 1.2m people is not what failed, but how much worked

Some 37 rescued but five children are among the dead after vessel’s engines explode

Boy had disappeared at sea, says French minister, as Patel criticises smugglers

Dire condition of Libyan migrant detention centres condemned by human rights groups

Home Office minister says measures being considered to make route unviable

Families with young children among hundreds of people who came ashore near Dover this week

Hundreds of people have embarked on the hazardous 33km crossing in recent days

EU spending hundreds of millions in countries such as Niger to stop flow of migrants

More than 50,000 have illegally crossed Canada-US border to file refugee claims over past four years

‘The last bit of dignity that the EU had left has drowned with these people’

A growing list of refugees and migrants have died after being forced back to Libya

Foreign nationals in meat plants and living in direct provision still lack details on virus – campaigner

Since 2015, some 5m people have fled Venezuela’s political turmoil. Many end up in Peru

In Libya, migrants pay smugglers to get them to Europe. Instead, they are tortured, raped, killed

Fire burns through two containers used as living quarters by people in Moria camp in Lesbos

Balkan route ‘closed’ as Orban hails growing focus on border security

Brussels condemns Ankara use of migrants for ‘political purposes’ at Greek-Turkish border

President criticised for closing gates between south and north for first time since 2003

Europe Letter: Greek-Turkish border crisis couched in talk of ‘shields’ and ‘protection’

Border agency announces ‘rapid border intervention’ in response to Athens appeal

Bloc leaders announce financial support as UN questions Greece’s suspension of asylum applications

Although Turkey denies it has changed its policy, the signals sent by Erdogan to desperate refugees speak volumes about what appears to be his real intention

Ugly scenes as Greek islanders say they shoulder disproportionate share of migrant burden

Independent living facility to be located at former Rosslare Port Lodge Hotel site

Many more are injured following blaze at facility dubbed the Libyan ‘Guantanamo’

Bardarash Letter: Camp’s occupants struggle on after having lost everything

Open border sees Greece struggle with thousands of migrants

Nicola Cochrane’s car was attacked during trip to volunteer at refugee camp on Lesbos

Turkish troops shoot down two Syrian warplanes after Syria downs Turkish drone

Erdogan says some 18,000 migrants have crossed borders from Turkey into Europe

Russia says two sides agreed to reduce tensions in Idlib while continuing military action there

Move comes day after 33 Turkish soldiers killed in attack in Syrian province of Idlib

Protesters on Lesbos throw stones and firebombs at police; locals storm hotel in Chios

More than 2,500 children have gone missing from Dutch centres over past 10 years

Suspects charged with organising and brokering illegal emigration, local reports say

Mission will police Libyan arms embargo but try to avoid being a ‘pull factor’ for migrants