Mexico finds 65 lost Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan migrants
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Mexican Federal Police officials have found 65 severely dehydrated and hungry migrants from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka wandering on a highway in the Gulf...
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13 SRI LANKANS DEPORTED FROM AUSTRALIA
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Thirteen Sri Lankans who had illegally migrated to Australia were deported and arrived at the Katunayake International Airport this morning. All of them were...
Trump targets legal migrants who get food aid
(UTV|COLOMBO) – US President Donald Trump’s administration is to make it more difficult for poorer legal migrants to extend their visas or gain permanent resident status...
EU to take migrants from Alan Kurdi rescue ship
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Malta has allowed a group of 65 migrants rescued off Libya to disembark on its territory after picking them up from a rescue ship....
Italy migrants: Rescue ship captain arrested at Lampedusa port
(UTV|COLOMBO) – The captain of a migrant rescue ship has been arrested at the Italian port of Lampedusa after a two-week stand-off with police at sea....
Rescued migrants hijack merchant ship near Libya – reports
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Migrants have hijacked a merchant vessel that rescued them off Libya’s coast, ordering the crew to head towards Malta, reports say. More than 100...
Walk or die: Algeria abandons 13,000 migrants in the Sahara
UTV | COLOMBO – Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 migrants in the Sahara Desert over the past 14 months, expelling them without food or...
Netanyahu cancels UN deal to resettle African migrants
UTV | JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled an agreement with the UN on Tuesday to resettle thousands of African migrants after pressure...
Large revenue contribution from migrants – Premier
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says migrant employment has contributed immensely to the country’s revenue. Speaking at the 4th ministerial consultation of the...
Donald Trump says Merkel made ‘catastrophic mistake’ on migrants – [VIDEO]
(UDHAYAM, UNITED STATES) – US President-elect Donald Trump has said German Chancellor Angela Merkel made “one very catastrophic mistake” by admitting more than 1m migrants....