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Police in Germany found more than 100 Syrian citizens inside apartments and other buildings that were searched Tuesday.

Pope Francis has launched an appeal to rescue more migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and bring them to Europe despite the record numbers already arriving.

Cyprus called on the EU to re-evaluate which areas of Syria can be declared safe so that Syrian migrants can eventually be repatriated there.

German police said dozens of people, including at least 26 officers, were injured during unrest surrounding an Eritrean cultural festival.

Planting its flag on the populist right, the Dutch Farmer-Citizen Movement called for an “opt-out” of EU climate and migrant agreements.

Humanitarian concern on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa after more than 5,000 people arrived in one day on smugglers boats.

Millions of Ukrainians who presently “behaved well” in Europe could start to act unpredictably, President Zelensky appeared to warn.

Asylum applications to the EU have risen by nearly one-third over 2022 as the bloc expects over a million to apply for asylum this year.

Claims are soaring, and there could be as many as 300,000 would-be asylum seekers filing papers this year, assuming no new wars break out.

Officials said they have broken up a suspected terror cell linked to the Islamic State group that consisted of nine young men and one woman.

The number of English Channel boat migrant crossings hit its highest level this year for a single day, with over 800 landing on Saturday.

“It’s clear that things haven´t gone well given the proliferation of military coups,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.

Tunisian migrant confessed to killing a taxi driver just two days after he was said to have murdered his girlfriend with the same knife. 

Government said it is imposing a ban on providing shelter for single men seeking asylum, arguing for families, women and children first.

Over 20,000 boat migrants have reached the UK this year as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak insisted his plan to stop the boats “is working”.

A record-breaking number of illegal migrants arrived on Italy’s shores this weekend, leading Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to call an emergency meeting Monday to confront the situation.

Nigel Farage called for “mass sackings” in the deep state after a former government asylum official joined a pro-mass migration charity.

Greek officials said four people died and 18 were rescued after a boat carrying migrants sank off the cost of the island of Lesbos.

The government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak only managed to deport two illegal boat migrants back to the European Union over the past year.

Germany plans to ease citizenship rules which the government contends will bolster the integration of immigrants and help the economy.

An asylum seeker from Afghanistan has been jailed for twice raping a 12-year-old girl with learning disabilities in a London migrant hotel.

Tony Blair-linked progressive think tank warns costs will spiral as migrants become trapped in the United Kingdom by the system.

Prime Minsiter Rishi Sunak admitted the government is likely to fail to stop the migrant crisis before the next election.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was uncompromising about border control and stopped deadly migrant boats arriving altogether.

Four men are being held by French authorities on suspicion of involvement in the fatal smuggler boat crossing to England that killed six.

Italy has seen the number of illegal boat migrants landing on its shores double over last year, reaching nearly 90,000 in just seven months.

Dozens of African migrants bound for Europe are missing and believed dead after a shipwreck off the coast of west Africa.

Over 17,000 illegal migrants, mostly comprised of young military-age males, have arrived on British shores so far this year.

Competition for the lucrative human trafficking trade between ethnically-based gangs operating in northern France is driving rising violence.

Police have launched an investigation after a candidate for the Alternative for Germany party was allegedly attacked by a group of migrants. 

The EU has reported baulked at calls from Britain to accept the return of illegal migrants who cross the English Channel from France.

Pope Francis has called for more effective aid to migrants trying to reach European shores, decrying the death toll of those attempting the perilous journey from north Africa to Italy.

Poland will hold votes on the border wall with Belarus and the rejection of an EU scheme to force the country to take in illegal migrants.

Gangs competing for the lucrative business of trafficking humans are shooting it out between themselves just miles from the UK border.

The migrant crisis in the English Channel is likely to last at least another five years, according to a leaked government memo.

Greek authorities said Sunday they had safely rescued 48 migrants from a rudderless inflatable boat off the island of Lesbos.