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Amid protests, Greece suspends migrants detention plan

February 17, 2020

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's government says it is suspending an emergency plan to build migrant detention camps on Greek islands near the Turkish coast to allow for negotiations with local authorities who strongly oppose the move.Notis Mitarakis,...

Baby born in migrant boat rescued near Canary Islands

February 14, 2020

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities said Friday that they have rescued a group of 86 migrants that included a baby who was born during the perilous journey in the open sea to reach Europe.Emergency services for the Canary Islands said that the newborn...

North Macedonia finds 53 migrants crammed into a truck

February 13, 2020

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia have found 53 migrants crammed into a truck in a southeastern border region and arrested the driver on suspicion of belonging to a trafficking gang, officials said Thursday.A police statement...

Italian Senate votes to lift right-wing leader’s immunity

By FRANCES D'EMILIO | February 12, 2020

ROME (AP) — The Italian Senate voted by a large margin Wednesday to allow the prosecution of right-wing opposition leader Matteo Salvini for making 131 rescued migrants to remain on a coast guard vessel for days when he was Italy's interior minister.Salvini's...

Suspect in migrant truck deaths can fight extradition to UK

February 12, 2020

LONDON (AP) — A truck driver wanted over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in a refrigerated container near London won a delay Wednesday to his extradition from Ireland to the U.K.At Dublin's High Court, Judge Donald Binchy ruled that 23-year-old...

Spain searches for 67 missing at sea, rescues 119 others

By ARITZ PARRA | February 11, 2020

MADRID (AP) — Spain on Tuesday resumed the search for 67 migrants missing from a boat trying to reach European shores a day after maritime authorities rescued 119 others from cold Mediterranean waters.A spokeswoman with Spain's Maritime Rescue agency...

Pope to visit Malta on May 31 in first foreign trip of 2020

February 10, 2020

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will visit the Mediterranean island nation of Malta on May 31, the Vatican said Monday, confirming the Pope's first foreign trip for the year.Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna said he expected the visit would highlight...

Greece: Emergency powers to build migrant detention camps

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and COSTAS KANTOURIS | February 10, 2020

Greece is planning to use emergency legal powers to create detention centers for migrants on five islands to try and speed up deportations back to Turkey, officials said Monday.Areas have been earmarked to create the new facilities on Lesbos and four...

Greek police arrest 7 suspected of attacks on migrants

February 7, 2020

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek police arrested seven people and were searching for another two on suspicion of planning or carrying out attacks on migrants on the island of Lesbos, authorities said Friday.Police said five Greeks and two foreigners between...

UK woman loses challenge aimed at restoring her citizenship

By DANICA KIRKA | February 7, 2020

LONDON (AP) — A U.K. woman who as a teenager ran away to join the Islamic State group lost a legal challenge Friday aimed at restoring her citizenship, which was revoked on national security grounds.Shamima Begum, one of three east London schoolgirls...

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press | February 5, 2020

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:———Feb. 5The Miami Herald on Fred Guttenberg, father of a student killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, being removed from President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address:House...

AP Interview: Italy wants to shift but stay in EU’s orbit

By FRANCES D'EMILIO and TRISHA THOMAS | February 4, 2020

ROME (AP) — Italy is not looking to leave the European Union but wants reforms that would shift the Britain-less bloc's “center of gravity” away from bureaucratic institutions in Brussels to elected bodies like the European Parliament, the country's...