Refugees in Sudan say people working with the UN agency responsible for resettlement take bribes to hasten the resettlement process of asylum seekers, IRIN reported Tuesday.

Brazilian blogger Orislandio Timoteo Araújo was shot to death Sunday in Buriticupu, the  the second journalist to be killed in the province of Maranhão this month.

Up to 700 migrants were killed when their boat capsized late on Saturday night in what has been called the Mediterranean’s worst tragedy in living memory.

 Border authorities discovered 73 Syrian migrants packed into the back of a furniture truck on Saturday as the driver tried to cross the Romania-Hungary border.