Spanish police on Friday confirmed that they had broken up a people-smuggling ring that brought more than 1,000 Algerian and Syrian migrants to Spain before relocating them elsewhere in Europe.
Twenty-one people were arrested in the operation involving Europol in the
Madrid region, Andalusia and the Basque country.
Migrants paid up to $21,600 to be brought to Spain and housed there before their transfer to other parts of the continent, police said, according to reporting by AFP.
At the "Border Security: Organized Crime in Migration" summit in London, Tunisian Minister of Interior, Khaled Nouri, called
According to the Algerian News Agency, Algeria has requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss
Algeria’s military announced on Tuesday that it had shot down an armed drone that entered its airspace near the
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to show “mercy and humanity” toward Boualem Sansal, AFP reports. The
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