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Italy’s coast guard saves over 750 migrants, minutes before one of the vessels sank
Fp Staff •The rescue operations come barely a month after 88 people died in a shipwreck just off Calabria’s coastline. Ten people are still reported to be missing from the shipwreck that occurred on February 26
Providing legal routes to migrants 'only solution' to save lives, says EU officials
•The EU's home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, said the bloc had to offer legal routes to Europe after she was asked about recent shipwrecks in the Mediterranean sea that left at least 100 dead or missing in two weeks, off Italy and Libya
Italy's Meloni says her 'conscience is clear' after migrant shipwrecks
•On Sunday, thirty people went missing, feared drowned, after the boat they were traveling from Libya capsized in bad weather. Seventeen people were rescued and were brought ashore to Italy.
Wagner hitting back at Italy for backing Ukraine: Defence minister blames mercenary group for migrant surge
•More than 20,000 migrants have landed on Italy's shores so far this year, compared to around 6,000 in the same period in 2022 and 2021
Eight EU nations call for tougher borders to prevent 'large-scale migration crisis'
•Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia sent the letter dated Monday to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council President Charles Michel
Unhappy with NYC’s ‘hospitality’, Mexico migrants make surprise move to Canada
Ayndrila Banerjee •The migrants have been given bus tickets to Plattsburgh, a city in New York, and from there they have to take care of their own expenses to take taxis and shuttles to travel to Quebec in Canada
Residents or migrants, UP has ensured everyone's safety during the pandemic, says Yogi Adityanath
•The Chief Minister said that under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today's Uttar Pradesh is full of self-confidence and is moving towards becoming self-reliant
Migrants amass on Mexico-US border ahead of health policy expiration next week
•Long lines of migrants from Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, and elsewhere in Latin America began forming on Sunday in freezing temperatures, in the hopes of being allowed to seek asylum in the United States
Texas and other horror tales of migrants who died while being smuggled
Fp Explainers •War, climate change, and politics have forced hundreds of migrants to flee their countries. The deaths of 46 immigrants in Texas is a grim reminder of the plight of the world’s homeless
Explained: What's happening on the Poland-Belarus border and who orchestrated the migrant crisis?
Fp Staff •It appears to be an orchestrated crisis, created by Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarus's autocratic ruler, to cause trouble for the European Union in retaliation for a series of sanctions against his government. Lukashenko, however, denied the allegation