Italy's painstaking bid to identify shipwrecked migrantsThe 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 November 2015
EU turns to African leaders to stem migrant crisisEU leaders will push their wary African counterparts to help tackle the migration crisis at a summit in Malta this week, offering them billions of euros in aid in exchange for cooperation
09 November 2015
Trudeau says Canada ready to settle 25,000 Syrian refugeesCanada's new prime minister vowed to make good on campaign promises to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the beginning of next year and bring home fighter jets battling the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
06 November 2015
Germany to speed up repatriations of rejected asylum-seekersGermany 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 November 2015
Croatia votes as migrants flow in, economy languishesCroatians vote in a general election as the nation faces an ongoing influx of refugees -- a crisis that rival political camps have tried to exploit, while lacking concrete policy pledges to kickstart the sluggish economy.
05 November 2015
Migrant crisis 'may derail' EU budgets: DijsselbloemEurogroup 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 November 2015
US Speaker Ryan won't work with Obama on immigrationFresh off his election as speaker of the House of Representatives, US Congressman Paul Ryan refused to cooperate with President Barack Obama on immigration, ruling out any reform before 2017.
Economic migrants use children as 'human shields': Czech leaderThe 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 October 2015
EU, Balkan leaders struggle to defuse tensions over migrantsEuropean Union and Balkan leaders struggled Sunday to reduce tensions over how to tackle the migrant crisis as Slovenia warned the bloc will "start falling apart" if it fails to take concrete action within weeks.
26 October 2015
Juncker backs Merkel on refugees ahead of EU mini-summitEuropean 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.
Slovenia blocks over 1,000 migrants at borderSlovenian authorities said they had refused to let in more than 1,000 migrants arriving from Croatia after a daily quota had been reached.
19 October 2015
Britain to unveil new counter-extremism measuresBritish Prime Minister David Cameron will launch a new strategy aimed at countering jihadist ideology and stopping young Britons travelling to Syria.