German police have arrested three Syrian nationals suspected of being sent to Germany by the militant group Islamic State, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
A UN rights expert on Thursday urged Kuwait to abolish its "kafala" system for foreign workers which has long been criticised.
Austria's interior minister said on Wednesday Vienna would take Hungary to court if it refuses to take back migrants who, under European rules widely ignored since last year...
The Italian coastguard on Monday said rescuers had recovered the bodies of 15 migrants in search and rescue operations which saved nearly 2,700 people making the perilous Mediterranean crossing to Europe.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's party braced for a backlash at state polls Sunday, while anti-migrant populists are poised for major gains a year after the German leader opened the borders to refugees.
Europe is ‘close to limits’ on its ability to accept new waves of refugees, EU President Donald Tusk said Sunday, urging the broader international community to shoulder its share of the burden.
More than 6,900 migrants have been rescued from the central Mediterranean, in one of the largest ever single-day operations, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday.
Germany expects up to 300,000 asylum seekers to arrive this year, less than one-third of the total during 2015's record influx, the Federal Office for Migrants and Refugees (BAMF) said Sunday.
Two Syrian girls aged eight months and five years drowned along with four other people when a wooden boat carrying war refugees trying to make it to Europe capsized off the coast of Libya, a humanitarian rescue group said on Friday.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has come out in favour of a partial burqa ban amid a fierce national debate on integration.
More than 120 bodies of migrants who died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe have washed up around Sabratha in western Libya this month ...
Around 90 migrants on Friday ended a days-long hunger strike they had staged at Serbia's border with Hungary in a bid to be allowed to continue their journey across the closed frontier, the UN refuge agency said.
