Rainstorms in western Ukraine have killed three people and forced hundreds of others to evacuate their homes. The flooding has affected Ukraine's western regions of Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi,...
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Afghans Among Unaccompanied Children Evacuated From Greek Refugee Camps To Germany
A group of 47 unaccompanied children evacuated from refugee camps in Greece arrived in Germany on April 18, German officials said. The children come from Afghanistan, Syria, and Eritrea. Four are...
Bulgaria + 3 more
Bulgaria tightens control on Turkey border to prevent migrant inflow
Bulgaria says it is tightening security along its border with Turkey to prevent an inflow of illegal migrants amid reports that Ankara may be relaxing its border controls to allow Syrian refugees to...
North Macedonia + 2 more
Police Find 40 Migrants In Van In North Macedonia
Police in North Macedonia have detained 40 migrants found inside a van and arrested the driver on suspicion of human trafficking. The Interior Ministry said on February 27 that the 39-year-old driver...
Serbia + 7 more
Serbia Arrests Five People Suspected Of Smuggling Over 140 Migrants
Serbian authorities have arrested five people suspected of trafficking more than 140 migrants. The detainees are accused of helping migrants cross into neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina, prosecutors...
Bosnia and Herzegovina + 9 more
Migrants clash with Bosnian police over conditions at camp near Croatian border
Hundreds of migrants clashed with police in Bosnia-Herzegovina as they attempted to break out of a camp in protest at the conditions under which they are being held and of alleged abuse by border...
North Macedonia + 6 more
Police In North Macedonia Find 53 Migrants In Truck
Macedonian police have discovered 53 migrants in a truck in a southeastern border region and arrested the driver, who is suspected of being part of a trafficking gang, officials have said. The truck...
Hungary + 6 more
Hungary Reopens Serbian Border Crossing After Migrants Demand Entry
Hungarian police have reopened a border crossing with Serbia, after hundreds of migrants ended a protest demanding entry into Hungary. "The Tompa road border-crossing has been reopened," a statement...
Gunmen kill Pakistani polio worker, wound another
By RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal PARMOLO, Pakistan -- Unidentified attackers have opened fire on two female polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, killing one of them and wounding the other. The shooting...
Severe Winter Weather Claims More Lives In Afghanistan
Nineteen people have been reported killed as a result of extreme winter weather in parts of Afghanistan, officials said. Officials told RFE/RL on January 12 that the victims were killed the previous...
At Least Eight Dead In Russian Air Strikes In Syria, War Monitor Says
At least eight people, including five children, have been killed in Russian air strikes on a school sheltering displaced civilians in northwest Syria, a monitoring group said. The air strikes hit the...
Taliban gunmen kill two Pakistani police escorting polio team
By RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal Taliban militants in Pakistan have shot and killed two police officers who had been deployed to protect a polio vaccination team in the northwestern province of Khyber...
Pakistan Launches Vaccination Campaign Amid Rise In Polio Cases
Pakistan has launched a five-day anti-polio vaccination campaign as the number of people affected by the crippling disease surged to more than 100 this year. Starting on December 16, tens of...
Bosnia and Herzegovina + 1 more
Bosnia Puts Off Closing Makeshift Migrant Camp 'Until Further Notice'
Bosnian authorities have indefinitely postponed the scheduled closing of a makeshift migrant tent camp in the northwest of the country. The closing of the Vucjak camp had been scheduled for December...
Bosnia and Herzegovina + 1 more
Bosnia to close makeshift migrant camp, some refuse to leave
The Bosnian government has said a makeshift tent camp in the northwest of the country would be closed within days, following harsh international criticism of the improper conditions hundreds of...
Search for survivors continues after deadly Albania quake
Rescue teams in Albania scrambled through mountains of rubble on November 28 in the hope of finding survivors of a powerful earthquake that claimed at least 40 lives. Hundreds of people were...
Bosnia and Herzegovina + 2 more
Storm Adds To Misery At Migrant Camp Deemed 'Dangerous, Inhumane'
A storm in Bosnia-Herzegovina has blasted through the improvised Vucjak camp for migrants trying to reach Western Europe, sending tents tumbling and further endangering the estimated 2,000 people...
Bosnia and Herzegovina + 4 more
Authorities Say Water, Utilities Restored At Migrant Camp in Northwest Bosnia
By RFE/RL's Balkan Service Authorities in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina say water and some services are again reaching an overcrowded migrant camp that has been criticized as unsanitary and unsafe. ...
Germany + 1 more
Germany Deports 44 Afghan Asylum Seekers
Germany has deported another group of failed Afghan asylum seekers to their home country, according to the dpa news agency. Forty-four Afghans arrived in Kabul on October 9 -- the 28th such group...
Official: Pakistan Experiencing Among Worst-Ever Dengue Outbreaks
October 03, 2019 17:51 GMT Pakistan is undergoing one of its worst-ever dengue fever epidemics recording about 20,000 cases and 34 confirmed deaths in recent months, a top Pakistani health official...