Migrants
Bosnia police stop migrants from reaching northwest area
Bihac, Oct 22 (AP/UNB) — Bosnian police have pulled dozens of migrants off a train to prevent them from reaching a northwestern part of the country where an overcrowded tent camp remains without water supplies for a second day in a row.
UN says 40 migrants feared drowned in capsizing off Libya
Cairo, Aug 28 (AP/UNB) — A boat carrying dozens of migrants bound for Europe capsized Tuesday in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, with at least 40 people missing and presumed drowned, U.N. officials said, as a support group reported it had gotten a call from someone on the vessel “crying and shouting” that passengers had died already.
Migrants jump off rescue boat to try to reach Italian island
Rome, Aug 18 (AP/UNB) — Frustrated by Italy's interior minister in their quest to set foot in Europe, several migrants jumped into the sea from a Spanish rescue boat that has been blocked for days from docking at an Italian island in a thwarted bid Sunday to reach land on their own.
Mexico finds 65 lost Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan migrants
Mexico City, Aug 16 (AP/UNB) — Mexican authorities say federal police found 65 severely dehydrated and hungry migrants from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka wandering on a highway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
9 sick migrants evacuated from rescue ship, 400 still at sea
Spain, Aug 13 (AP/UNB) — A Spanish aid group says nine people have been evacuated from its migrant rescue ship while it continues to seek a port where another 151 passengers can get off.
Trump administration pushes to speed up migrant family cases
Los Angeles, Aug 4 (AP/UNB) — Rosita Lopez said armed gang members demanded money from her and her partner at their small grocery store on the Guatemalan coast and threatened to kill them when they couldn't pay. When her partner was shot soon afterward, they sold everything and fled north.
Mexico opens first government shelter for asylum seekers
Ciudad Juarez, Aug 2 (AP/UNB) — The Mexican government opened its first shelter Thursday in the border city of Juarez to house Central Americans and other migrants seeking asylum in the United States who have been sent back to Mexico to await the process.
Mexico attends thousands of unaccompanied migrant minors
Mexico City, Jul 19 (AP/UNB) — Mexico's National Migration Institute says child protection officials have assisted since December more than 10,000 unaccompanied minors, most of them from Central America.
Venezuelan migrants take arepas to new lands amid crisis
Bogotá, Jul 16 (AP/UNB) — Venezuelans like to jest that their beloved arepas are so widely consumed that babies come out of the womb with the corn flatbreads already in hand.
Airstrike hits migrant detention center in Libya, 44 killed
Benghazi, Jul 3 (AP/UNB) — An airstrike hit a detention center for migrants in the Libyan capital early Wednesday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 130, the U.N. mission to the war-torn country said.