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Migrant Crisis

British home secretary Priti Patel with Rwandan foreign minister Vincent Biruta after signing the deal in Kigali on Thursday. Photograph: EPA

Britain plans to send ‘tens of thousands’ of asylum seekers to Rwanda

Oxfam condemns Boris Johnson’s proposal as ‘cruel, immoral and impractical’

Europe cannot allow a two-tier system for refugees to take hold

Europe cannot allow a two-tier system for refugees to take hold

Contrast between EU response to different refugee groups is stark and troubling

EU policies in Africa risk increasing danger for migrants

EU policies in Africa risk increasing danger for migrants

Sending Frontex to patrol west African coast fails to recognise root of migration

Ireland is good at welcoming migrants but bad at integrating them

6:09 Ireland is good at welcoming migrants but bad at integrating them

New EU action plan should provide boost for the integration of migrants

EU migration policies are enabling deaths at sea

5:17 EU migration policies are enabling deaths at sea

People are prevented from safely reaching territory where they can seek asylum

Ireland cannot afford ‘to pit one group of refugees against another’

Head of protection programme says State has ‘long way to go’ in meeting existing commitments

Europe cannot allow a two-tier system for refugees to take hold

Contrast between EU response to different refugee groups is stark and troubling

EU policies in Africa risk increasing danger for migrants

Sending Frontex to patrol west African coast fails to recognise root of migration

Twelve migrants freeze to death near Turkey’s border with Greece

Turkish minister accuses Greek border guards of pushing group back over frontier

Four found dead at US-Canada border believed to be human smuggling victims

Man, woman, teenager and infant appear to have frozen to death, authorities say

Young child’s body recovered from Aegean Sea

Authorities estimate victim, found off Naxos island in Greece, was three years old

At least 16 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Greek coast

Search and rescue operation deployed overnight off northwest of Paros island

More than 160 drown in two shipwrecks off coast of Libya in past week – UN

Fatalities are latest disasters in Mediterranean involving refugees trying to reach Europe

Denmark’s former immigration minister jailed by impeachment court

Inger Stojberg found guilty of breaching duties by illegally separating refugee couples

The Irish Times view on the EU’s response to refugees

Human rights groups complain thousands have been pushed back from the EU’s borders

At least 54 killed after lorry smuggling migrants crashes in Mexico

More than 160 migrants were inside truck when it tipped over and crashed into steel bridge

Pope Francis condemns politics of migration in address on Greek front line

Pontifff criticises ‘political propaganda’ on Lesbos visit as policies harden across the EU

EU border agency plane to monitor French coast following Channel deaths

Ministers meeting in Calais also discuss using drones and Frontex border guards

France cancels talks with UK on Channel migrants crisis

Invitation to Priti Patel to attend talks withdrawn after Johnson tweets letter

Britain and France to ‘intensify’ co-operation to prevent migrant deaths

Priti Patel to meet with French counterpart after 27 people drown in English Channel

Political blame game begins in earnest after Channel fatalities

Migrants trying to reach Britain a source of tension between London and Paris for years

‘I can’t go back’: a migrant’s dilemma after Channel tragedy

‘I don’t know how to choose between bad and worse, but I have no other option,’ says Mahdi (31), from Iran

Pregnant woman and three children among 27 drowned in Channel

Victims mostly Kurds from Iraq or Iran, say French authorities, as criminal investigation begins

Johnson calls on France to agree to patrols after 27 migrants die in Channel

Four suspected traffickers arrested by French authorities after boat capsizes

At least 27 people drown after migrant boat sinks in English Channel

Authorities blame traffickers for tragedy in inflatable dinghy crossing from France to UK

Ireland is good at welcoming migrants but bad at integrating them

6:09 New EU action plan should provide boost for the integration of migrants

Cloverhill to house people refused entry into State

4:00 Total of 2,333 people refused leave to land at Dublin Airport so far this year

Poland accuses Belarus of transporting hundreds of migrants back to border

Belarus pushing migrants to cross border hours after clearing camps, Poland says

Polish forces turn water cannon on migrants at Belarusian border

Lukashenko to hold second call with Merkel amid migrant crisis

French police evacuate 1,500 migrants from camp near Dunkirk

Migrants including young children were hoping to travel across English Channel

Putin says any Belarusian move to cut gas flows risks hitting ties

Putin blames Western countries for migrant crisis: ‘Belarus has nothing to do with it’

Human rights a currency without value in Polish-Belarusian limbo

Estimated 4,000 people camped near border facing hunger, exposure and death

Lukashenko threatens EU gas as sanctions loom over migrant crisis

Belarus president calls Poland border crisis he is accused of causing a ‘complete catastrophe’

Poland and Belarus face off over migrants in growing geopolitical row

3:45 Leaders of opposing countries accuse Putin and EU respectively of orchestrating crisis

Facebook group and offers from Belarus sell migrants the European dream

Syrians in Lebanon hoping for a better life will need $3,000 and nerves of steel

The Irish Times view on EU-Belarus tensions: clashes at the border

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is accused by EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen of “instrumentalising refugees” as a weapon

Polish prime minister warns ‘stability and security of the entire EU is at stake’

Polish politicians fear a deliberate provocation by Belarus could cause serious incident involving migrants at EU’s eastern border

Poland accuses Belarus over migrant ‘provocations’

Lithuania considers state of emergency for Belarusian border area after surge in illegal crossing attempts

Over 200 Afghans granted visas for Republic unable to travel

Government has issued 499 waivers to Afghan refugees, but just 286 arrive in State

Cyprus grapples with highest number of asylum seekers per capita in EU

‘When you meet a Cypriot the first thing they say is, “I’m not a racist” – but their actions say differently’

Hundreds of refugees and migrants to be disembarked in Italy

Total of 412 people, including more than 100 minors, rescued off Libyan coast

Taoiseach condemns ‘heinous’ use of migrants by Belarus

Migrants transported to EU borders in retaliation to sanctions on Minsk

‘There is no mercy’: Refugees in Libya desperate for help as thousands rounded up

Detainees include Eritreans, Somalis and Sudanese who have fled war or dictatorships

Mexico urges Haitians at US-Mexico border to give up and head south

Few Haitians granted asylum in Mexico and face long waits on document processing

US envoy to Haiti resigns over Washington’s ‘inhumane’ deportation of migrants

Daniel Foote calls government policy ‘deeply flawed’ and says his advice was ignored

Deported by US, Haitians are in shock: ‘I don’t know this country’

Migrants feel mistreated and betrayed at sudden deportation to broken country they left years ago

French minister criticises ‘blackmail’ and ‘posturing’ from UK over migrant crossings

Intervention comes as Priti Patel examines using ‘pushback’ tactics in Channel

Fences built along EU borders to curb migrant crossings

4:00 Attitudes harden ahead of expected increase of arrivals from Afghanistan

When Afghans came to work, their European colleagues had fled

Europe Letter: The Taliban have secured leverage over many thousands of lives

Fears for migrants stuck on Belarus border as EU states tighten security

Poland and Baltic states building fences to block ‘weaponised’ migration via Minsk

Afghan refugees find a harsh and unfriendly border in Turkey

Thousands have been fleeing Afghanistan daily in recent months ahead of the Taliban takeover

New wave of migrants will be met by less welcoming EU

Europe Letter: beefed-up border force reflects the bloc’s increasingly hardened edge

EU migration policies are enabling deaths at sea

5:17 People are prevented from safely reaching territory where they can seek asylum

At least 57 migrants die after boat capsizes off Libyan coast

Boat runs to Italy and other parts of Europe from Libya and Tunisia rise in recent months

Migrants' hunger strike puts Belgian government in danger

2:22 About 400 protesters seeking residence rights ‘could die within days’, says charity

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Editorials

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People reach out for aid packages in Tovarnik, Croatia. Hundreds of migrants have pushed through police lines in the eastern Croatian town, with people trampling and falling on each other amid the chaos, as more than 2,000 men, women and children were stuck at the local train station for hours in blazing heat and sun, waiting to board trains and buses for transport to refugee centres. Photograph: Marko Drobnjakovic/AP

Irish Times Poll Attitudes to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean

People force their way through police lines at Tovarnik station, Croatia, to board a train to Zagreb on on Thursday. Migrants are now diverting to Croatia from Serbia after Hungary closed its border with Serbia, with the majority of them trying to reach Germany. Photograph:Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Migrant crisis: stampede in Croatia

Hungarian police use tear gas as people tried to cross from Serbia into Hungary at a border crossing near Horgos, northern Serbia, on Wednesday. Hungary has now closed its borders with Serbia. Potograph: Tamas Soki/EPA

Migrant crisis: Hungarian riot police fire tear gas at Serbian border

A migrant drinks water as he waits with hundreds of others to complete a registration procedure by the police at a stadium on the Greek island of Kos on August 12th, 2015. Photograph: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP/Getty Images

Migrant crisis on Greek island of Kos

French gendarmes try to stop migrants on the Eurotunnel site in Coquelles near Calais. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Calais migrant crisis

Boat People A special report on migrants risking death to reach Europe

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