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Illegal Migration

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Mediterranean Migrant Deaths Near 1,000 After New Shipwrecks, UN Says

The UN migration agency links the surge to thin rescue coverage plus smugglers’ tactics.

At Least 22 Migrants Die After Days Adrift Off Crete

Cranston Inquiry Finds Deaths in 2021 Channel Disaster Were Avoidable, Urges End to Small-Boat Crossings

Greece Finds 17 Dead on Migrant Boat Off Crete as Survivors Report 15 Missing

At Least 40 Drown as Migrant Boat Capsizes Off Tunisia

At Least 69 Dead as Migrant Boat From Gambia Capsizes Off Mauritania

Mauritania Capsize Kills 69 Migrants, Coastguard Says

Two Migrant Boats Capsize Off Lampedusa, Dozens Killed

Italy Detains German Rescue Ship Sea-Eye 5 After Migrant Rescue

Second Shooting at Loon-Plage Camp Leaves One Dead, Two Injured

Six Dead, 40 Missing After Migrant Boat Sinks Near Lampedusa

Syrian Migrant Dies in First Channel Crossing Fatality of 2025

Senegal: Boat with 30 Decomposing Migrant Bodies Found Off Coast

At Least 8 Migrants Drown as Boat Capsizes on Serbia-Bosnia Border