By AFPUS President Joe Biden will seek Mexico's help tackling illegal flows of migrants and drugs, particularly deadly opioids, during a visit beginning Sunday for a North American leaders' summit.Aiming to tame criticism over what he has called a "b...

A herd of cows was confiscated by the Tunisian authorities in Sidi Bouzid governorate in late September before being smuggled abroad, amid a crisis of “cattle trafficking” the country has faced over the past few years, which has affected the security...

By AFPA Moroccan appeals court more than tripled to three years prison sentences against 18 African migrants over the deadly storming of a Spanish enclave in June, a lawyer said.The migrants had been arrested after some 2,000 people, mostly from Suda...

By AFPSaudi Arabia has seized over 700 million narcotic pills that entered its territory via Lebanon in the past eight years, its ambassador to Beirut said Tuesday.The kingdom suspended fruit and vegetable imports from Lebanon in April last year, acc...

By AFPMore than 2,000 Tunisian youngsters this year have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing from the North African country to Italy to seek a better life, a rights group said Wednesday.The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) s...

By AFPNearly 100 migrants traveling in a truck were found abandoned in Mexico, officials said, a month after dozens of people died in similar conditions in the United States.The migrants were discovered Wednesday night on a highway in the eastern sta...

Police in five European countries launched a cross-border operation against people smuggling on Tuesday and made several arrests, German authorities said.Officers in Belgium, Britain, France and the Netherlands as well as Germany staged dawn raids wi...

Jose Mario Licona and his family spent 18 hours in a refrigerated truck being smuggled to the Mexican-US border -- a journey he feels lucky to have survived.Others have been less fortunate, including dozens of migrants from Mexico and Central America...

Athens on Monday accused smugglers from Turkey of trying to send more than a thousand migrants to Greek islands, before the boats were detected in the Aegean and turned back.Greek Merchant Navy Minister Yannis Plakiotakis said Turkish smugglers had "...