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• Afghanistan

As Western forces withdrew from Afghanistan in August, thousands of Afghans waited at the airport in the hope of being evacuated with them. Some succeeded while others died in the attempt. Now the families of two of the deceased remember their loved ones and the desperation that pushed them to run alongside an American cargo plane as it took off from Kabul.

• Italy

The southern Italian city of Castel Volturno, which hosts a community of thousands of immigrants, commemorated on Saturday the so-called "slaughter of San Gennaro" -- the murder of six Ghanaian citizens by members of the powerful Casalesi criminal clan 13 years ago.

• Belarus
• Poland

Four migrants were found dead on the Poland-Belarus border, three Iraqi men in Poland and one Iraqi woman in Belarus. The Polish prime minister spoke of "dramatic events and Belarusian provocations."

• Afghanistan
• Poland
• United Kingdom

Two Afghan refugee children in Poland have died after ingesting poisonous mushrooms. The two children were aged five and six.

• France
• Italy

A 17-year-old migrant who was trying to reach the border with France on a train's roof in the area of Peglia, a town near Ventimiglia in Italy, was electrocuted. At least 20 migrants have died in just a few years while trying to cross the border with France.

• France

The good weather on Thursday saw more migrants attempting to cross the Channel. 120 migrants were rescued, confirmed the French maritime authorities. One migrant was found unconscious on a sinking boat and flown to hospital by helicopter; he later died.

• Algeria
• Niger
• Tunisia

Two women and four children were found dead in the Tunisian desert, confirmed an official on Thursday. It is presumed they "died of thirst."

• France
• Spain

The migrant is the second person to drown in the Bidasoa river in an attempt to reach France from Spain in three months.

• Morocco
• Spain

A migrant boat attempting to reach the Canary Islands capsized only half an hour after leaving the city of Dakhla in Morocco. A total of 42 people drowned, including eight children and 30 women.

• Belarus
• Iraq
• Lithuania

An Iraqi man has reportedly died near the border of Belarus with Lithuania, as tensions between the two countries are running high. An inquiry into the death has been launched.

• France

Three Nigerian migrants have died over the weekend in a fire in the southern French city of Marseille. Panicking, they jumped out of windows of the public housing building where they were squatting, officials said. A young child was taken to a hospital in serious condition.

• Canary Islands
• Spain

The mother of Yamila, a five-year-old migrant girl who died late on June 29 aboard a helicopter of the Spanish army, is asking for help to travel to France from the Canary Islands to attend her daughter's funeral.