Boat people
500 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar wash to shore in Indonesia
Boats carrying about 500 members of Myanmar's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim community washed to shore in western Indonesia on May 10, with some of the people in need of medical attention, a migration official and a human rights advocate said.
Nearly 2,000 Europe-bound migrants have drowned this year, UN says
By Robert Evans
Nearly 2,000 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East have drowned in the Mediterranean this year, most of them in the past three months as they tried to reach Europe from Libya, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.