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Renata Brito poses for a portrait in Mallorca, Spain, Sept. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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International migration beat leader
A crowd of Pakistanis gathers at the entrance of the Pakistani consulate in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, following the Spanish government's decision to grant residency and work permits to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Spain offers hundreds of thousands of immigrants a way to stay legally. But who are they?
More than half a million foreigners are believed to live in Spain without legal permission. Like in the United States and much of Europe, these immigrants work jobs that few nationals want.
 
Migrants sit together with their belongings after being evicted by police from an abandoned school where they had been living in Badalona, near Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
Spain is granting legal status to immigrants lacking authorization — potentially 500,000 people
Spain will grant legal status to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants living and working in the country without authorization.
 
In this Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 file photo, refugees and migrants arrive in a dinghy accompanied by Frontex vessels at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey. AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File)
In rare ruling, EU’s top court sides with refugee’s appeal in a landmark case against Frontex
The European Union’s highest court has sided with a Syrian refugee in a landmark case against Frontex, the EU border agency.
 
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses a Conference of the Global Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling at the EU Charlemagne building in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
European nations agree to consider weakening protections for migrants dating to WWII
European nations have agreed to consider changes that rights advocates say would weaken migrant protections that have underpinned European law since World War II.
 
Refugees from Syria arrive at the train station in Dortmund, Germany, Sept. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
EU updates asylum guidance for Syrians a year after Assad’s fall
The European Union’s asylum agency says it is updating its guidance for applications by Syrian nationals one year after the fall of Bashar Assad.
 
Red Cross vehicles carrying the bodies of three people believed to be deceased hostages handed over by Hamas make their way toward the border crossing with Israel, to be transferred to Israeli authorities, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Israel says it received the remains of 3 hostages from Gaza as fragile ceasefire holds
Israel says the remains of three hostages have been handed over from Gaza and will be examined by forensic experts as a month-old ceasefire holds. U.S.
 
Tents fill a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians in Zawaida, in the central Gaza Strip, on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel says the latest remains returned from Gaza by Hamas are not of hostages
Israel says the remains of three people Hamas handed over to the Red Cross do not belong to any hostages. It’s the latest setback to the U.S.
 
Palestinians watch as Egyptian machinery and workers search for the bodies of hostages in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Gaza ceasefire tested as Israel and Hamas exchange fire and blame
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the army to carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza.
 
Bodies of unidentified Palestinians returned from Israel are buried in a mass grave in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Israel’s top diplomat says Turkish troops will have no role in Gaza force
Israel’s foreign minister says his government will not allow Turkish troops to take part in a future international peace force in Gaza.
 
Palestinians carry jerrycans and plastic bottles with water after collecting it at a camp for displaced people in Gaza City, Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Vance calls Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation an ‘insult’
U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation. Vance says that the move was an “insult.”
 
U.S. Vice President JD Vance speak to the media as Jared Kushner looks on, in Kiryat Gat, Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Vance is optimistic about Gaza ceasefire but notes ‘very hard’ work to come
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other envoys projected optimism about Gaza’s fragile ceasefire agreement during a visit to Israel even as they acknowledged significant challenges remain.
 
Migrants who fell in the water struggle to cling on to a a float before being rescued by a humanitarian rescuers, around 35 miles away from Libya, in the Mediterranean Sea, Oct. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Valeria Mongelli, File) (AP Photo/Valeria Mongelli, File)
Lawyers ask ICC to investigate 122 European officials for crimes against humanity in Mediterranean
Human rights lawyers accused 122 European officials of committing crimes against migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
 
A cross is seen at a cemetery where hundreds of people who died of AIDS are buried in Maseru, Lesotho, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
US aid cuts deal a massive blow for the small African nation of Lesotho: Takeaways from AP’s report
In the wake of massive U.S. cuts to foreign aid, the tiny country of Lesotho in southern Africa faces deep uncertainty and worry over its HIV-positive residents.
 
This image obtained from live stream footage from Gaza Sunbird vessel, one of the nine boats taking part in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition & Thousand Madleens to Gaza, shows Israeli forces approaching in boats, in Eastern Mediterranean sea, on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025. (Freedom Flotilla Coalition via AP)
Israeli military intercepts another flotilla heading to Gaza and detains scores of activists
The Israeli military has intercepted a nine-boat flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea trying to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza and detained scores of activists on board.
 
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg arrives at the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Athens, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025 after being deported from Israel for taking part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Greta Thunberg is among flotilla activists deported from Israel. Others remain in prison
Israeli authorities say they have deported another 171 activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla, including Greta Thunberg.
 
This frame grab from video released by the Global Sumud Flotilla shows Israeli forces intercepting 'Marinette', the last boat from an international flotilla trying to break Israel's sea blockade, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (Global Sumud Flotilla via AP)
Israel intercepts the last boat from the Gaza flotilla as Israeli minister mocks the activists
Israeli forces have intercepted the last boat from an international flotilla trying to break Israel’s sea blockade of war-ravaged Gaza.
 
A Gaza-bound Sumud flotilla boat is escorted into the port of Ashdod, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, after being intercepted while approaching the Gaza coast by Israeli navy soldiers. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Israel intercepted a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid in international waters. Can it do that?
The Israeli interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and hundreds of activists raises questions about what any nation can legally do to enforce a blockade in international waters.
 
Activists in orange life jackets sit aboard a Gaza-bound Sumud flotilla boat as Israeli navy soldiers sail it into the port of Ashdod, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, after it was intercepted while approaching the Gaza coast. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Israeli navy intercepts boats attempting to break Gaza blockade and arrests activists
Hundreds of Israeli police officers have been deployed to the port of Ashdod to process some 450 international activists detained by Israeli naval forces hours earlier.
 
This image taken from video released by the Israeli Foreign Ministry claims to show activist Greta Thunberg, right, as she is removed after the Israeli navy intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid towards Gaza on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (Israeli Foreign Ministry via AP)
Activists say Israeli navy has begun intercepting a Gaza-bound aid flotilla
Activists on board a flotilla of vessels sailing toward Gaza say the Israeli navy intercepted at least 19 of their boats as they approached the besieged Palestinian territory.
 
Migrants who arrived recently at the island of Crete, despite a suspension of asylum claims and plans for tougher detention rules, are being held under guard at a temporary shelter in the village of Agia, near Chania city, on the island of Crete, southern Greece, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Giannis Angelakis)
UNHCR official warns that the 1951 refugee convention is increasingly under threat
The U.N. refugee agency says that governments around the world are increasingly undermining the global convention on refugees and asylum-seekers even threatening its very existence.
 
Ships that are part of the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza are anchored off the coast of of Sidi Bou Saïd in Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Anis Mili)
An activist flotilla on a mission to Gaza says it was attacked again in Tunisia
An international activist flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza says it was attacked for the second night in a row.
 
Activists wave on a boat taking part in a civilian flotilla bound for Gaza, aiming to break the Israeli blockade and deliver humanitarian aid, in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Flotilla headed to Gaza leaves Barcelona for a second time after storm delay
A flotilla carrying activists and humanitarian aid for Gaza has left Barcelona’s port for a second time after the vessels were forced to return a day earlier because of bad weather conditions.
 
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg waves from a boat taking part in a civilian flotilla bound for Gaza, aiming to break the Israeli blockade and deliver humanitarian aid, in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Flotilla with Greta Thunberg leaves Barcelona in biggest attempt yet to break Israel’s Gaza blockade
A flotilla of ships has set sail from Barcelona to the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid and activists on board.
 
A view of bullet-drilled windows of the MV Ocean Viking, search and rescue vessel chartered by non profit group nonprofit SOS Mediterranee, which, according to the organisation, was fired on by the Libyan Coast Guard, approximately 40 Nautical Miles north of the Libyan coast, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. (Max Cavallari/SOS Mediterranee Via AP)
Libya’s coast guard shoots at a vessel seeking to rescue migrants in distress, group says
A humanitarian group says Libya’s coast guard fired upon its vessel as it searched for a migrant boat in distress in the Mediterranean Sea.
 
In this photo provided by RESQSHIP, Italian Coast Guard personnel evacuate migrants from the vessel NADIR operated by the organization RESQSHIP, off the coast of the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025. (Jan Salmen/RESQSHIP via AP)
Mediterranean rescues find 3 Sudanese sisters dead on an overcrowded migrant boat
A German nonprofit organization says three young Sudanese sisters have died after an overcrowded rubber dinghy took on water in bad weather in the Mediterranean Sea.
 
Sewing machines are lined up inside the empty Tzicc clothing factory following the threat of U.S.-imposed tariffs in Maseru, Lesotho, Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
US-imposed tariffs spelled disaster for this factory that exported clothes to American stores
Officials and workers in the textile industry of the small African nation of Lesotho are holding their breath as a key deadline for U.S.-imposed tariffs approaches.
 
A wrecked vessel that was carrying migrants from Turkey in 2015 lies on the shore at Skala Sikamias, on the island of Lesbos, Greece, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
10 years after Europe’s migration crisis, the fallout reverberates in Greece and beyond
Amena Namjoyan arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos as part of a migration crisis that would rock the European Union. She spent months in an overcrowded camp.
 
(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)
‘Deadliest’ migration route from Pakistan to Europe reveals the globalization of smuggling business
A failed crossing from Mauritania’s coast toward Spain’s Canary Islands in which 44 Pakistanis perished earlier this year has cast a spotlight on how globalized and sophisticated smuggling networks on the West African coast have become.
 
Migrants gather in an area near the Libyan-Tunisia border, as Libyan security forces and Libyan Red Cross workers distribute food aid to them on Sunday, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, file)
Reports of Trump deportation plans highlight abuse of migrants in Libya
Experts, human rights workers and lawyers criticized reports of plans to deport migrants from the U.S. to Libya.
 
A firefighting-equipped tug boat, left, contacted by the Malta Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) helps controlling a fire occurred on the bow of the Conscience vessel in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, May 2, 2025. (Malta Vessel Traffic Services via AP)
Drones strike ship carrying aid to Gaza, organizers say, in latest confrontation over assistance
Drones attacked a vessel carrying aid to Gaza in international waters off Malta. That’s according to the group organizing the shipment said.
 
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