Kemal Softic Associated News Today

Updated Jan. 8, 2021 3:07 pm ET Coronavirus restrictions sent illegal border crossings into the European Union down to levels last seen in 2013, although thousands of migrants pursued more dangerous routes that were rarely used before the pandemic. The number of illegal border crossings into the EU dropped 13% in 2020 to 124,000, according to preliminary data collected by Frontex, the EU border control agency. The number of such crossings has fallen since the huge surge of migrants ente...

Hundreds of Migrants Stranded in Freezing Weather in Bosnia Up to 700 people lacking winter clothes, sleeping bags and tents have slept outside after a temporary camp was dismantled. Local hostility has blocked efforts to relocate them. Migrants warming themselves at the Lipa near Bihac, Bosnia, on Wednesday.Credit...Kemal Softic/Associated Press Published Dec. 31, 2020Updated Jan. 14, 2021 Hundreds of migrants stranded at an abandoned camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina were spending New Year’s E...