Italian President Sergio Mattarella during a meeting with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier called the European Union rules on the distribution of migrants “prehistoric” as the debate raged on Friday (September 22), about how to manage the surge of migrant boat arrivals from North Africa.

Italian president calls EU rules on sharing migrants ‘prehistoric’, urges for reforms

Pope Francis arrived in Cyprus on Thursday, beginning a five-day trip that would also bring him to Greece and its island of Lesbos, where in 2016 he made a defining visit to refugees living in horrid conditions and brought some back to Rome on his plane.

Pope Francis heads to Cyprus, aiming to highlight plight of migrants

It was cold in Belarus, bitterly cold, but at least it offered hope, however illusory. Nazar Shamsaldin was one of thousands of Iraqis who made their way to the Eastern European country in recent months, hoping it would prove a jumping-off point to new lives in the West, only to become pawns in a geopolitical game.

Limping and penniless, Iraqis deported from Belarus face bleak futures

As the standoff over migrants gathering along the European Union’s eastern flank grew more precarious Thursday, with Polish news media reporting that a 14-year-old boy from Iraq had frozen to death on the Belarus side of the frontier, the language from political leaders on either side of the razor wire ratcheted up.

Tensions escalate at Poland-Belarus border as migrants face dire conditions

Belarusian state-run airline on Friday banned citizens from Iraq, Syria and Yemen from boarding incoming Turkey flights at the request of Turkish authorities amid a migrant standoff between Belarus and Poland “In line with a decision by the … Turkish authorities, citizens of Iraq, Syria, Yemen will not be accepted for transportation on flights from Turkey to Belarus from 12.

Belarus bans Iraqis, Syrians and Yemenis from boarding incoming Turkey flights to curb migrant crisis

In pics | Hundreds trapped at border as Belarus & Poland blame each other for migrant crisis

As he toured the country's newest island migrant camp on Friday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that his country's tougher maritime and land border patrols had essentially crushed illegal migrant networks.

Even as activists accuse country of illegal deportation, Greek PM says 'essentially crushed' migrant smugglers

After a surge of illegal migration from the Belarus border, Polish President Andrzej Duda has declared a state of emergency. Blaming Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko for the mass influx of migrants, Warsaw has said that the strongman is trying to put pressure on the European Union over the sanctions it has imposed on Minsk.

Migrant crisis: Poland declares state of emergency on Belarus border

According to an NGO, bodies of migrant children were left abandoned for three days on a beach in Zuwara in Libya. NGO Open Arms founder Oscar Camps in a tweet said: "They are still in shock at the horror of the situation, small children and women who only had dreams and life ambitions.

'Nobody cares about them': Children’s bodies found on Libyan beach after migrant boat sinks

At least 74 migrants drowned after their Europe-bound ship capsized off the coast of Libya on Thursday, the UN migration agency said. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), that boat was reported to be carrying more than 120 people, including women and children.

Shipwreck off Libyan coast leaves 74 migrants dead

The government said Monday it had brought home 10 French children of jihadist fighters overnight from a refugee camp in Syria, the latest in a piecemeal repatriation process since the Islamic State group was ousted from its Syrian base in March 2019.

France brings home 10 jihadists' children from Syria

The situation along the Turkey-Greece border is extremely grave. On the one side, there are desperate people fleeing from the war in Syria. Also read: Migrants head to Greece as Turkey opens floodgates Presently, given refuge in Turkey, they want to crossover to Greece and into Europe for a better life.

Greece migrant crisis: Tense situation on the Greek-Turkish border

A new bill will force all asylum applicants, irrespective of age, to wait their requests in camps on the border

Hungary to detain asylum-seekers in container camps