migrant crisis

French police push back on migrants near English Channel entrance who chanted slogans 'we are not animals'.

David Cameron under fire from Refugee Council charity for remarks he made about migrant crisis in Calais.

Kent police and social services are asking for support to deal with migrants and traffic problems.

A makeshift migrant camp in Calais is the home to some 3,000 people hoping to reach Britain.

EXCLUSIVE: Blunt says the French authorities have 'dumped' the problem on the UK.

Home Secretary Theresa May pledges £7m to improve security at Eurotunnel in Calais.

The body is believed to be that of a migrant who was trying to reach the UK from Calais.

Migrant activity has had a knock-on effect on Eurotunnel services with cancellations possible.

Europe's treatment of migrants is shameful and betrays its founding philosophy, says Inna Shevchenko

The theme for United Nations World Population Day on 11 July 2015 is Vulnerable Populations in Emergencies

The UNHCR said on 10 July that Greece urgently needs help to cope with 1,000 migrants arriving each day.

Services through the Channel Tunnel were delayed after more than 100 migrants tried to board freight trains.

France and Britain agreed to discourage migrants from Africa and the Middle East from coming to Europe.

Hundreds of mainly Syrian and Eritrean migrants remained blocked at Milan's central train station.

One fifth of people living in northern Iraq's population are now refugees.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi lashes out at Paris as hundreds of would-be-refugees are stranded in Ventimiglia.

Romanian worker stabbed outside carabinieri police station in Italian capital.

More than 4,200 people attempting the perilous journey were rescued over a 24-hour period.

Italy's navy said its ship Fenice made the rescue.

EU ministers agree to set up naval mission in Mediterranean to target gangs smuggling people from Libya to Europe

More than 600 migrants rescued by the British navy as part of the enlarged European Union search and rescue operation.

Amateur videos show migrants being brutalised by police in Calais.

Behind the mass displacement of the world's 'most persecuted' ethnic minority.

The narrative on migrants in Britain is deplorable and unbeffiting a proud history of taking refugees in

The EU must revive Mare Nostrum and take life-saving action, not face-saving racism

Italy wants EU to set up refugee camps to process asylum applications in Tunisia, Niger and Sudan.

Decision to end support for the Mare Nostrum rescue operations described as 'disgracefully deadly'.