The UNICEF says that nearly 25,000 children are stranded in Greece, Bulgaria and Hungary. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's party and its allies have won the parliamentary elections. And InfoMigrants speaks to Syrian school children about Germany's education system. Read more in today's news summary.
Two Algerians swim for nearly ten hours to reach Greece. Chinese in Paris are tense after one member of their community was killed by police. Displaced migrants network REFUNITE's founders talk to InfoMigrants about their motivations and challenges. This and more in today's roundup.
Two migrants from Algeria were rescued from the sea close to the port of Chios in Greece after swimming for nine-and-a-half hours from the Turkish coast.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Algiers has been called off, with possible repercussions for Germany's deportation policy for Algerian asylum seekers and Germany is planning to check refugees' phones as a part of its crackdown on fake identities. This and more in today's news roundup.
Berlin is under pressure to deport refugees from so-called "safe countries of origin" back to their homelands. But a country like Algeria has other challenges to overcome before it takes back its people.
EU heads of states are gathering in the Maltese capital of Valetta to discuss, among other issues, strategies to stem the flow of migrants from North Africa, especially Libya. Niels Frenzen, director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Southern California explains the European Union's current policy on refugees and how the bloc seeks to resolve the flow of refugees from these areas.