Earthquakes kill over 2,000 people in Turkey, Syria
At leaste 2,000 people have died after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake destroyed buildings in southern Turkey and northern Syria. Tremors were felt as far away as Lebanon, Cyprus and Egypt.
At leaste 2,000 people have died after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake destroyed buildings in southern Turkey and northern Syria. Tremors were felt as far away as Lebanon, Cyprus and Egypt.
The Czech Republic has announced that it will end conducting border controls with neighboring Slovakia, which had been introduced in a bid to control irregular migration patterns. But elsewhere in the bloc, border controls remain on high alert.
Austria's chancellor has said he would lobby the European Union for €2 billion in funding for Bulgaria to strengthen its border with Turkey. Despite pushback, Bulgaria's president says he's hopeful his country would join the Schengen group of countries in the foreseeable future.
Greece has announced a further extension of its border fence with Turkey, aimed at stopping migrants. The government also repeated a call for Europe to show "solidarity and a fair sharing of duties."
The foreign ministers of Hungary and Serbia, Peter Szijjarto and Ivica Dacic, have met in Budapest to discuss ways to work together against new migrant flows.
An Afghan man who entered Latvia via a hole in the border fence with Belarus has died of hypothermia. He is said to have been smuggled across the border along with another Afghan man.
People fleeing the Middle East are taking a new route to reach Europe via the small Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, according to research by German journalists. Armed with visas from Moscow, the migrants are putting their lives at risk to make the difficult journey.
At least four people have died and about 43 were rescued after a migrant boat ran into difficulty in waters off the English coast of Kent on Wednesday morning.
The British government is reportedly gearing up to get even tougher on those smuggling migrants across the Channel from France. The main target of the latest policy will be Albanian gangs.
Bulgaria has detained 70 people suspected of having entered the country as migrants using irregular means. Some had to be rushed to hospital having suffered exhaustion, according to regional police forces.
After Lithuania built a fence on its border with Belarus, the numbers of migrants crossing the border into the country, and therefore the EU, have reduced, say the authorities.
The Balkan nation has rejected accusations that its border guards shot a Syrian refugee in October. A video released showed a man being shot on Bulgaria's border with Turkey.