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The shy children from a dog-eared photograph found in the pocket of a migrant drowned off Italy may never know what happened to the man who might have been their father.

• 10 ноября 2015, 17:38

Germany plans to speed up repatriations of rejected asylum-seekers from new central hubs, Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition allies agreed, vowing to bring order to a record migrant influx.

• 06 ноября 2015, 11:20

Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the fallout from the refugee crisis should be considered when assessing some members' budgets, adding it had already had a major impact on debt-ridden Greece.

• 03 ноября 2015, 11:29

The European Union risks disintegrating if it fails to respond to its worst migration crisis since World War II collectively.

• 29 октября 2015, 16:52

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned that this week's international talks on the war in Syria will not find an immediate political solution but nevertheless represent the best hope available.

• 29 октября 2015, 14:16

Germany will send thousands of rejected asylum applicants back to the Balkans in the coming months as Berlin toughens its stance on economic migrants in the face of a refugee crisis.

• 29 октября 2015, 13:59

The bodies of at least 43 people thought to be migrants washed up on Libyan beaches east of the capital Tripoli at the weekend.

• 26 октября 2015, 16:32

The European Union will "start falling apart" if it fails to take concrete action to tackle the migrant crisis within the next few weeks.

• 26 октября 2015, 15:51

The Czech president accused economic migrants of using children as "human shields" in their bid to reach Europe, as the continent grapples with its biggest migration crisis since World War II.

• 26 октября 2015, 15:35

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker backed Angela Merkel's welcoming stance towards migrants ahead of a mini-summit of leaders this weekend aimed at tackling record arrivals.

• 24 октября 2015, 13:29

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker chided EU member states for not respecting their pledges of humanitarian aid to tackle the migrant crisis, saying "urgency" was needed.

• 23 октября 2015, 14:12

According to him, due to falling global prices for hydrocarbons, budget revenues have dropped by 40%. Besides, global prices are falling for major Kazakhstan’s commodities.

• 20 октября 2015, 11:45

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said more should have been done to tackle the "root causes" of the worst refugee and migrant crisis since World War II.

• 20 октября 2015, 11:30

Three portraits of former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin are on display in the centre of Donetsk, the rebel capital of eastern Ukraineю

• 19 октября 2015, 15:14

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu praised a "better approach" from the European Union in sharing the burden of the refugee crisis.

• 19 октября 2015, 10:37

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there was a "glimmer of hope" that Ukraine could finally head towards a political solution to ending the separatist war in the country's east.

• 15 октября 2015, 16:04

The EU must speed up deportation of economic migrants and "crack down" on abuse of its asylum system, British interior minister Theresa May said as ministers met to discuss Europe's refugee and migrant crisis.

• 08 октября 2015, 16:30

The hulking Soviet-era mineral refinery in Pikalyovo, one of Russia's hundreds of factory towns hit by a crippling economic crisis, has been a blessing, and at times a curse, for a place dependent on a single industry.

• 07 октября 2015, 16:09

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged the EU consider a no-fly zone and safe haven area in Syria during talks to address Europe's spiralling migrant crisis.

• 06 октября 2015, 15:17

The Syrian crisis can only be solved through peaceful ways, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Affairs Minister Yerlan Idrissov said at the General Policy Debates at the UN headquarters in New York.

• 02 октября 2015, 21:00