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One person is killed and 75 others remain missing after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Tunisia.
2022-05-25

British Special Boat Service (SBS) special forces storm the Liberian-registered "Nave Andromeda" after the tanker was suspected to be hijacked by a group of Nigerian stowaways off the Isle of Wight. The 22 crew members were found safe, and the seven suspected hijackers have been detained by British authorities following a 10-hour stand-off.
2020-10-25

Malta's Navy rescues 112 migrants from a sinking boat in the Mediterranean Sea.
2020-03-15

Around 100 people are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya. So far this week, 18 people are confirmed dead and 340 missing attempting to migrate to Europe.
2016-11-17

NATO members gather in Warsaw, Poland, for a two-day summit. Much of the focus will be on Russia and NATO's commitments in bolstering its presence in Eastern Europe. Other issues to be discussed will include Europe's migrant crises, ISIL extremists, and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
2016-07-8

Hungary is to hold a referendum on whether to accept mandatory EU quotas for relocating migrants.
2016-02-24

NATO, during a two-day meeting, considers request from Turkey and Greece to monitor migrant transit in the Aegean Sea and to combat human traffickers squeezing refugees onto unsafe boats.
2016-02-10

Macedonia's Army begins erecting a metal fence on its southern border with Greece. Around 250 migrants later clash with Macedonian police on the border.
2015-11-28

Croatia closes seven out of eight border crossings with Serbia. Zoran Milanović, the Prime Minister, says that his country "will move migrants on".
2015-09-18