Human migration

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Illegal border crossing at the EU external borders increased sharply in 2013, rising to over 107,000 from 75,000 in 2012, an EU agency reports.

A total of 4,363 would-be migrants were stopped by the Coast Guard and the Greek Police during the first four months of the year, a 142 percent increase compared to the same period last year, official statistics showed on Friday.

Greece has also committed serious violations against asylum seekers and immigrants entering its territory from Turkey, a new report by Amnesty International has argued.

Police in Istanbul and Edirne have dismantled a crime group which engaged in illegal trafficking of immigrants from Middle East countries to Bulgaria and Greece.

The 12-strong crime group was uncovered as a result of several months of tracking by special police units, according to reports of dnevnik.bg.

Bulgaria has embarked on a "Containment Plan" to reduce the number of asylum seekers in the country, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Serbia's asylum policy still does not comply with the EU standards, and its priorities should be the adoption of a new law on asylum and the provision of capacities to meet the housing needs of asylum seekers, it was concluded on Wednesday in the panel discussion titled "Asylum in Serbia - problems and perspectives".

BELGRADE - A total of 2,055 people requested asylum in Serbia in the first three months of 2014, and most of them - 947 - were Syrians, the executive director of the Serbian Asylum Seeker Relief Centre Rados Djurovic said on Tuesday.

Serbia has no plans to strip refugees of status - official

BELGRADE -- Refugees in Serbia will have the same status as before, despite an initiative to abolish it, says the director of the Fund for Aid to Refugees and IDPs.

Former US President Bill Clinton and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will become grandparents.

Their only daughter, Chelsea, revealed on Thursday that she is expecting a baby, The New York Times reported.

“Marc and I are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year”, Chelsea Clinton said during an event in Manhattan.