More war, less cash, new routes drive migrant push to European Union
Saturday, 12 September 2015, 14:28
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Migrants have for years taken death-defying trips across the Mediterranean to reach Europe, but the flow has hit record proportions this year — notably with an influx of Syrians, Afghans and...
Updated: Divisive far-left lawmaker wins UK's Labour leadership race
Saturday, 12 September 2015, 13:27
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Veteran far-left lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn has been elected leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, a runaway victory that threatens to further divide the party as it struggles to recover from a...
Egypt's government resigns amid corruption probe
Saturday, 12 September 2015, 12:44
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb and his Cabinet have resigned after coming under fire for a series of controversial statements and a corruption investigation that led to the arrest of the...
Some numbers that help sketch out Europe's migrant story
Saturday, 12 September 2015, 11:09
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers have entered the European Union this year, thousands more arrive daily, and number-crunchers and analysts are battling to understand what it all means. The...
Juncker's migrant quota plan rebuffed by four European nations
Saturday, 12 September 2015, 10:38
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
At least four countries Friday firmly rejected a European Union plan to impose refugee quotas to ease a worsening migrant crisis that Germany's foreign minister said was "probably the...
Cuba releasing 3,522 prisoners ahead of pope's visit next week
Saturday, 12 September 2015, 08:10
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Cuba announced Friday that it is releasing 3,522 prisoners ahead of next week's visit by Pope Francis, the third time Cuba has granted inmates freedom before a papal trip. The Council of State...
Europe migrant crisis: Hungary 'will arrest illegal migrants'
Friday, 11 September 2015, 21:13
Last update: about 10 years ago
Hungary's PM has warned that people who cross the country's border illegally will be arrested from next week. Viktor Orban said migrants entering Hungary in their thousands in the past weeks had...