Saturday 18 September, 2021
The 8,000 migrants landed on the shores of the Spanish city of Ceuta on the North African Coast and many have since been returned to Morocco.
The deal will see more police deployed in the route.
The blaze means thousands more refugees are in need of emergency housing.
By conjuring the spectre of a national crisis, the right have created the ideal conditions for a reactionary power grab, writes Ash Sarkar.
1,004 migrants were brought ashore by Border Force between 4 August and 13 August.
Turkey has claimed Greece is using live rounds against people at the border, saying three have been killed.
The men and boys found in the truck were mostly in good condition.
It follows a number of arrests in the UK over the incident last month.
The recent discovery of 39 bodies in a lorry in Essex has put the crisis back under the spotlight.
We look at the ‘push and pull’ factors and the deadly risks people are forced to take.
The driver called police when he suspected that there were people in his container.
The man was wearing a makeshift life jacket made of empty plastic bottles.
The tanker had been heading to Libya.
49 migrants stranded at sea for weeks arrived in Malta today following the deal.
It consists of solar panels and a lead acid battery from an alarm or car, with a Raspberry Pi – a tiny and cheap computer – to provide processing power.
Sean Binder was arrested in Greece in August.
The nationality of the migrants was not clear, although children are known to be among the dead.
25 people were on the boat, including the people traffickers who were Spanish nationals.
Italy refused to take in the migrants on Monday because there was no EU commitment to relocate them.
The migrants have been blocked at the Sicilian port of Catania on the Diciotti vessel since Monday.
Deep divisions are expected to surface over migration.
72.6% of people aged between 18 and 35 would welcome refugees into their countries, according to a World Economic Foundation survey.
Sales of outboard motors will also be cut back.
Italy has recently threatened to close its ports to foreign ships in an effort to force the EU to react.
More than 10,000 people were pulled to safety between Sunday and Tuesday off Libya — including 5,000 on Monday alone.
The LÉ Eithne is now enroute to assist in another rescue operation.
Dutch-Irish artist Annabel Konig spent a month in the migrant accommodation centres in Athens in early May.
The 34 people were travelling on board a boat that caught fire.
The LÉ Eithne was previously deployed to the region in 2015.
The population of the Grande-Synthe camp has swelled since the destruction last October of the squalid Jungle camp near Calais.
There had been concerns raised previously about soldiers struggling to travel to work.
The Immigration Council of Ireland said this was one example of Europe’s lack of response to the migrant crisis.
Officials said there was no transport available to move the bodies and no cemetery to bury them in.
More than 5,000 people died in the Mediterranean last year, the majority of them on the Libya-Italy migrant route.
About 20 of the unaccompanied minors will be coming in the coming weeks.
Data from EU border agency Frontex suggests the number of migrants entering Europe via two main routes dropped by two-thirds to 364,000 in 2016.
A look at the migrant crisis through the eyes of the Irish defence forces.
The government has pledged to resettle 520 refugees here in 2017.
The Irish force has been involved in the rescue of thousands of migrants.
Zappone said she wants Ireland to take as many unaccompanied minors from the camps as we can.
