Six Syrian refugees, including two infants and a child, have been found dead on a migrant boat that arrived in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has said. “They died of thirst, hunger and severe burns. This is unacceptable,” the UNHCR’s...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A group of 61 migrants picked up by a cargo ship from a crippled vessel in the central Mediterranean have safely reached Crete hours after a severely ill child on the freighter died while being airlifted to the Greek island, authorities said Wednesday. It was unclear...

A 17-year-old Syrian has been stabbed to death in an apparent racist attack in the south of Turkey. According to Gazete Duvar, Faris Muhammed Al-Ali was stabbed to death on Sunday by the 16-year-old son of a Turkish woman working at the same factory as him. Al-Ali was studying medicine...

Authorities transferred some 400 asylum-seekers away from a makeshift camp outside an overcrowded migrant reception center in the northeastern Netherlands after a damning report called the site where hundreds of people were sleeping rough a health hazard. Leon Veldt, a spokesman for the...