Migrants

Migrants share tutorials for human smuggling on social media - report

Video tutorials on social media show migrants using risky methods to enter the UK, sparking safety concerns and highlighting the dangers of truck smuggling.

Migrants try to board smugglers' boats in an attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France on September 27, 2025; illustrative.
People stand at the Kapikoy Border Gate, between Turkey and Iran, in Van province, Turkey, January 14, 2026.

Iranians arrive in Turkey through border gate as crackdown persists

Migrants disembark from a British Border Force vessel as they arrive at the Port of Dover, in Dover, Britain, December 29, 2024.

UK secures migrant return deal with Angola, Namibia as DRC faces visa curbs

US President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media following a call with military service members, on Thanksgiving, in Palm Beach, Florida, US, November 27, 2025.

Trump policy doc. says Europe risks 'civilizational erasure', aims to avoid Mideast 'forever wars'


At least 31 migrants drown crossing English Channel from France

The tally is likely to increase because several of those rescued are in a serious condition.

 A group of more than 40 migrants with children get on an inflatable dinghy, as they leave the coast of northern France to cross the English Channel, near Wimereux, France, November 24, 2021

Polish police say group of 50 migrants broke through Belarus border

Thousands of migrants have traveled to Belarus in the hope of crossing into the European Union, only to find themselves trapped on the border in freezing conditions.

 Polish soldiers and police watch migrants at the Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Territorial Defence Forces, November 12, 2021.

Countries ban Iraqis flying to Belarus in echoes of 2017 'Muslim ban'

Turkey is blocking citizens of Syria, Yemen and Iraq from getting airline tickets to Belarus. The sweeping move conjures up memories of the Trump era “Muslim ban.”

Migrants gather around a fire near a barbed wire fence in a makeshift camp on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region, Belarus November 11, 2021. Picture taken November 11, 2021.

Polish police find body of Syrian man near Belarus border

Thousands of migrants from the Middle East are sheltering in freezing conditions in the woods on the border between Belarus and EU states Poland and Lithuania, which are refusing to let them cross.

 Belongings of migrants are pictured in the forest after they left temporary night camp during migrant crisis on Belarusian - Polish border near Hajnowka, Poland, November 10, 2021.

Poland reports two migrant incidents on Belarus border

Trapped between two borders, the migrants are enduring freezing weather in makeshift camps.

 Polish police guard Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Police, November 12, 2021.

Belarus is using refugees for politics. Turkey did the same thing - analysis

Where are the Western asylum-seeking policies set up to help genocide survivors? For Yazidis who suffered genocide in 2014, there is no end in sight, whether in Belarus or elsewhere. 

 Migrants gather near a barbed wire fence in an attempt to cross the border with Poland in the Grodno region, Belarus November 8, 2021.

Gang shootout in northern Mexico leaves four dead - officials

Three members of the powerful Mexican Gulf Cartel are dead after a shootout and a car chase with law enforcement.

 Plastic flowers are seen at crosses set up in memory of four policemen who were killed a year ago in a shoot-out with alleged gang members in La Barca November 27, 2013.

What is the state of migrants in Israel?

Courts’ report portrays judges as highly efficient; NGO’s report depicts them as lacking sufficient humanity in allowing foreigners to languish in detention.

An African migrant sits near the Old Central Bus Station in south Tel Aviv, Israel February 3, 2020

Climate expert warns we are in the final window to mitigate climate change

"There will be hotter days and more extreme weather events," climate Advocate Tami Ganot Rosenstreich said. "We are getting a lesson in humility from nature."

A CARNIVAL float depicts climate change, personification of planet Earth and the coronavirus in Duesseldorf, Germany, in February.

Jewish activists work as translators to fight ‘language violence’

The translators at Respond Crisis Translation work with asylum seekers stranded along the US border, providing translation and interpreting services.

A migrant from Guatemala talk to a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent at the Paso del Norte international border bridge to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, U.S., in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 26, 2021.