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"Memorials to people who have died and to those missing during migration - Reflections on the first WUN-funded workshop By Martin Preston, University of Bristol:.."
Extending the scope of PNR to sea and rail traffic.
"After a horrific two-year ordeal across three countries - being bought and sold by people traffickers and surviving running out of fuel on an inflatable boat while trying to cross the Mediterranean - Mohamed finally gave up hope..."
"The European Commission has received a record number of requests to publish documents, according to statistics released this week..."
"Disaster reporting plays to set ideas about people from ‘"over there’"
"The Siracusa prosecutor's office has opened an investigation regarding the case of the coast guard ship Gregoretti, which has been in the Augusta port since Saturday evening with 115 migrants still on board.
"Responding to a spike in migrant arrivals from neighboring Turkey, the government’s Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) has decided on seven measures to ease the pressure on the Aegean islands and curb the influx. (...)
Greece says it is restarting deportations of migrants to Turkey in an effort to deal with the increasing number of illegal crossings in recent weeks (...)
Thirteen boats with 547 migrants arrived at the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos from the Turkish coast on Thursday afternoon, in what is the largest number of arrivals in one day since the migration crisis of 2015-2016, local media reported on Friday.
"The EU is funding the development of a “video lie detector” to detect deception by immigrants through video recordings of their faces. "
Countries focus on increasingly effective encryption of communications
"Away from the glare of attention focused on the new Prime Minister and his plans for Brexit, an important security summit begins in London today"
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