On Monday, negotiators agreed on new measures to accelerate and expand deportations from the European Union, including provisions allowing rejected asylum seekers to be sent to processing hubs outside the bloc.

The UK and France have agreed to extend their “one in, one out” small boats pilot scheme until 1 October, continuing a controversial migration agreement aimed at reducing Channel crossings and disrupting people-smuggling networks.

The European Commission has invited officials from Afghanitan's Taliban to discuss the returns of certain migrants. It's controversial on humanitarian grounds, and because Brussels doesn't recognize Taliban authority.

African migrants in the South African capital, Pretoria, were urged to exercise "heightened vigilance" during an anti-illegal immigration march, amid fears of xenophobic attacks.

A recent video on Facebook shows a couple outside a British pub. The woman complains that there were no halal options and they were offered pork.

Police in Greece have been recruiting migrants to violently push other migrants back across its land border with Turkey.

Four people have died after a small migrant boat sank in the English Channel near the northern coast of France, local authorities in Calais said on April 9.

At least nine people have died and 45 are missing following the capsizing of a migrant boat off the coast of Djibouti.

At least 14 people died after an inflatable boat carrying migrants collided with a Turkish coast guard vessel off the coast of Antalya province on Monday, authorities said.

Egypt has reported that 18 of its citizens remain missing after a migrant boat sank off the Greek island of Crete last week, resulting in four deaths.