Somalia

At least 10 migrants who were seeking to reach Europe are feared dead after their inflatable dinghy capsized off the coast of Libya, a local prosecutor on the Italian island of Sicily said July 23.

A UNHCR spokesman had earlier said that the potential toll could reach up to 40, but prosecutor Francesco Paolo Giordino said it would be closer to "about a dozen".    

U.S. authorities are seeking to revoke the citizenship of an imam in Oregon who they say tried to conceal past associations with radical Islamic groups.

Refugees seeking to enter Western Europe are routinely subjected to unlawful push-backs and ill-treatment by police on the Macedonian border with Greece and on the Serbian border with Macedonia, a new report by Amnesty International says.

Amnesty International on July 7 accused Balkan countries of mistreating migrants passing through their territories on the way to the European Union, saying people fleeing war were being "shamefully let down".

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic says a total of 35,712 people have sought asylum in Serbia in the first six months of 2015.

They come most from Syria and Afghanistan, but also from Somalia, Iraq and other countries, the minister explained on Thursday.

By Andrew Mayeda

The International Monetary Fund said it still expects Greece to repay $1.7 billion due Tuesday, as the lender and other creditors struggled to reach a last-minute accord with the nation to keep it from running out of cash.

Expat Eric Kempson, aged 60, his wife and daughter, led a quiet life in a village in northern Lesvos. When they started noticing crowded boats crossing over from Turkey they would go and watch. There would be five to 11 boats a day, each one with 50-60 people from Syria, Eritria, Afghanistan and Somalia… just some of the 22,000 migrants that arrived on Lesvos so far this year.

Al Shabaab islamists in Somalia, killed at least eight police officers on a raid carried out against Police HQ near Mogadishu. Al Shabaab is seeking to overthrow the “Western-friendly” government and assumed full responsibility.

Conflicts and violence across the world have increased the number of people forced to leave their homes to the record 60 million on a global scale, as reported by the UN.

The number of people going away from their homes has increased by 8,3 million since 2013, marking the biggest increase in history, according to a recent UNHCR global trends report, entitled ''World at War''.

Syria is in the list of countries that Bulgaria is not allowed to export weapons to according to the Bulgarian legislation.