Europe

A recent survey has revealed a startling statistic – more than 50,000 unaccompanied child migrants have gone missing after arriving in Europe. According to an Anadolu Agency article published yesterday, the “Lost in Europe” project, which gathered data from 13…

About 50 migrants were missing after their boat capsized south of Spain’s Canary Island of El Hierro in the Atlantic Ocean, the Associated Press reported yesterday. According to the news agency, 60 of the migrants had set sail nine days…

A Swedish woman, self-identified as “Woman of the Cross,” has burned a copy of the Holy Quran once again in the Skarholmen area of the Swedish capital, Stockholm. This is the same area where the 39-year-old Swedish man, Michael Janike,…

The European Parliament approved a new law on Tuesday to ban in the EU the sale, import and export of goods made using forced labour, targeting China’s use of forced labor in Xinjiang, RFA reported. The Forced Labour Regulation places…

Europe faced a record number of extreme heat stress days in 2023, according to the European Union’s Copernicus climate monitoring service and the World Meteorological Organization. The continent experienced a July heatwave that affected 41 percent of southern Europe, along…

The number of crimes affecting Muslims in Germany has more than doubled last year, TRTWorld reported citing media reports. According to a report published on Monday by the German Press Agency dpa, some 1,464 crimes nationwide were classified as Islamophobic…

Following a sharp increase in arrivals this month, Cyprus has suspended the processing of asylum applications from Syrians, Al Jazeera reported today. In practice, the measure means asylum seekers will be confined to two reception camps offering food and shelter,…

Sweden’s Equality Ombudsman on Thursday ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who had complained of facing discrimination for wearing a headscarf, Anadolu Agency reported. The Ombudsman stated that an airline’s uniform dress code policy resulted in the unfair dismissal…

The Italian coast guard rescued 22 migrants and recovered nine bodies after a boat overturned in a storm south of the island of Lampedusa, the Associated Press reported today. The boat had departed from Sfax, Tunisia, carrying 46 people from…

Two Iraqis suspected of being involved in the Islamic State’s genocide of Yazidis have been arrested in Germany, Middle East Eye reported. According to the source, the arrested couple, identified as Twana H.S. and Asia R.A., are accused of having…