The sea between Libya and Italy has become the main crossing point for asylum seekers and economic migrants seeking a better life in Europe.

A French farmer who smuggled African migrants to safety, defying authorities in an effort that his supporters likened to the Underground Railroad, was given little more than a slap on the wrist by a court Friday.

• ANALYSIS

The Bush and Obama administrations went to great lengths to embrace Muslims as the Middle East imploded. And despite Donald Trump's campaign rants, that consensus held.

Melbourne Muslim restaurateur labels US president's visa ban on entry from visitors from seven countries as tyranny and bigotry.

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American airports overnight became settings for heartbreak, frustration and panic as the Muslim ban kicked in. But the countries left off the list were telling.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed those fleeing war and persecution in response to Donald Trump's Muslim ban.

President Donald Trump's executive order closing the nation's borders to refugees was put into immediate effect on Friday night.

"I don't think you can really exaggerate how bad things are here because almost every day it gets worse."

Hungarian police have detained two foreign women under European arrest warrants for terrorism-linked activity, police said in a statement posted on their official website on Friday.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said a much larger attack was apparently being planned, based on the weapons found at the scene of a car bombing in the western city of Izmir on Thursday.

German investigators searched a refugee centre and a flat in Berlin on Tuesday which they believe were homes to associates of Anis Amri.

A Syrian migrant who arrived in Germany two years ago has been arrested on suspicion of seeking funds from Islamic State to drive truck bombs into a crowd.

Around 1100 sub-Saharan African migrants tried to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Sunday by storming a border fence, the Spanish government said.

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One of the lessons to be drawn from the ugly Berlin truck attack is that things must be called by their name, even when half-masked and crouching in corners.

Several buses en route to evacuate ill and injured people from the besieged Syrian villages of al-Foua and Kefraya have been attacked and burnt.

Germany has carried out its first group deportation of Afghans whose asylum applications have been rejected, in line with an agreement reached with Kabul earlier this year.

Tens of thousands of refugees who fled conflict in Syria and Iraq face an uncertain winter as the Greek government struggles to cope with their needs.

Germany's highest court has ruled that ultra-conservative found against an 11-year-old pupil who had argued that even wearing a burkini breached Islamic dress codes.

Some 1400 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe were rescued on Tuesday, Italy's coastguard said.

• The facts

This graphic shows the ratio of our refugee population to our wealth in 2014 – a year when the number of newly displaced hit a record high.

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The West has historically thrown a lot of money at the problem of refugees. Problem is: it doesn't work.

One in five of the world's displaced come from Syria. Nearly two million have ended up in Turkey, like 10-year-old Afaf and baby Sufian.

At The Jungle in Calais, France, thousands of people seeking a new life stand in rags on the threshold of Britain. Daniel is one of them.

Around the world, 38 million are displaced within their own countries - they could be the refugees of tomorrow. From North Korea, Pak Sol-hwa risked everything to cross into China.

A record 34,000 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in 82 countries last year. Six-year-old Daniel made the journey to the US with two other children to escape a life of crime.

Australia resettled 11,600 people in 2014. But in our neighbourhood, thousands of genuine refugees remain in limbo. Khadim Dai is one.