The Gambian manual laborer Aboubacar Touré was among the first to rescue tourists trapped in a bus that went off the Mestre overpass on the evening of October 3. | Photo: ANSA / ANDREA MEROLA
  • Italy

African migrants save child and others after bus accident

Three African migrants engaged in manual labor in Italy saved the lives of several people on Tuesday (October 3) evening, pulling them out of the flames of a bus that had fallen off an overpass on Venice's mainland.

From file: More than 1,000 migrants have arrived on the Canary Islands in the last few days | Photo: Europa Press/ABACA/picture alliance
  • Canary Islands
  • Spain

Canary Islands: 518 migrants rescued after crossing the Atlantic
From file: Poland has increased controls along its borders in the last week | Photo: X feed @Straz_Graniczna
  • Hungary
  • Poland
  • Slovakia

Suspected smuggler breaks leg during Polish police chase

News

Taliban officials have condemned Pakistan's new statements on Afghan migrants. | Photo: DW screenshot
  • Afghanistan
  • Pakistan

Afghan refugees in Pakistan fear widespread crackdown
Droughts are among the extreme weather events forcing millions of children from their homes | Photo: Dasril Roszandi/AA/picture alliance
  • China
  • Philippines
  • Somalia

UNICEF: Extreme weather events displace millions of children
The migrants taken by the Open Arms ship to Carrara. Marina di Carrara, Oct. 4, 2023. | Photo: ANSA / COMUNE DI CARRARA
  • Italy

Open Arms ship detained in Italian port after rescue
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Features

Around 200 unaccompanied minors from West Africa spend the night in Belleville Park in Paris. Photo: InfoMigrants
  • France

‘As soon as the park closes, we pitch our tent’: Hundreds of unaccompanied minors sleep outside in northern Paris
The German city of Goslar has, in many cases, successfully integrated its new arrivals. | Photo: DW screenshot
  • Germany

Germany's migration policy divides communities
Bavaria's premier Markus Söder does not want to be remembered as the CSU leader who squandered his party's national influence. | Photo: picture alliance/dpa/P. Kneffel
  • Germany

Populism drives election race in Bavaria
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Personal stories

Nadia, Afghan refugee in France: 'I no longer watch the news from Afghanistan, it makes me too sad'

Nadia is Afghan. This former auxiliary of the French army in Afghanistan was able to leave the country after the Taliban's return to power two years ago. As a refugee in France, she is trying to build a new life far from the Taliban threat but knows she will only be truly at peace when her family is reunited in France.

Kaya Jafari: 'The power is in the detail'

Kaya Jafari, an Afghan artist who grew up in Iran, now wants to teach her skills in hyperrealistic art to artists in Munich. After moving to Germany over two years ago, she realized that the art form may be in need of a revival.

Mustafa Hussein from Sudan: 'Germany, do the right thing, evacuate the people'

Mustafa Hussein is a Sudanese refugee now living in Berlin. He was granted political asylum in Germany on March 10, just over a month before war broke out in his home country.
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Understanding Europe

Refugees in Germany can be sure that their basic needs are covered | Photo: Hannes P Albert/dpa/picture alliance
  • Germany

Immigrants in Germany: Who gets what kind of support?
From file: Afghan women in Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2021 | Photo: EPA/Maxim Shipenkov
  • Afghanistan
  • Germany

Afghans at risk: Where to seek help
From file: Many Bangladeshi migrants undertake seasonal agricultural work in Greece | Photo: Arafatul Islam
  • Greece

Greece: How to apply for a seasonal work visa
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The European Union

Credit: European Commission
  • Ukraine
  • European Union

Are you seeking refuge from the war in Ukraine? Beware of human traffickers when on the move
Credit: EU Commission
  • Ukraine
  • European Union

Information for people fleeing the war in Ukraine
Credit: European Commission
  • European Union

Fighting migrant smuggling: 2021-2025 EU action plan

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