Canada sets 300,000 immigration target
OTTAWA"•Canada will start welcoming a minimum of 300,000 immigrants annually in 2017 in order to ease economic pressures linked to ...
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Migrants risk it all for better life in US
NOGRALES, Mexico"•The two teens had trekked in the Sonoran Desert’s searing heat for four days and were lost and almost ...
Read moreUp to 25 feared dead in raid on migrant boat off Libya
Up to 25 people were missing and feared drowned Friday after men on a Libyan coastguard speedboat attacked a packed migrant dinghy ...
Read moreBoat with up to 450 migrants capsizes off Egypt, 42 drowned
A boat carrying up to 450 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean off Egypt's north coast on Wednesday, drowning 42 people ...
Read more6,500 migrants saved off Libya
Rome—The Italian coastguard said it had coordinated the rescue on Monday of about 6,500 migrants off of Libya in one ...
Read moreSome 6,500 migrants rescued off Libya
Around 6,500 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya, the Italian coastguard said, in one of its busiest days ...
Read moreUS repatriates 161 Cuban migrants
The United States repatriated 161 Cubans this week after intercepting them at sea as they attempted to reach American soil, ...
Read moreItaly, Germany rescue 6,500 Libyan refugees
Rome—The Italian coastguard said the bodies of five migrants were recovered from the Mediterranean Sunday, while more than 6,500 people ...
Read moreGreece, Macedonia fight over migrants
ATHENS—Scenes of desperate migrants being teargassed at the Greece-Macedonia border are straining an already testy relationship between the two neighbors, ...
Read moreGermany to integrate refugees
BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition agreed Thursday on tough measures to spur the integration of migrants and refugees, including ...
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