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Ceuta migrant crisis death toll reaches 72 as EU tensions mount

The death toll from last Thursday's mass migrant crossing into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta reached at least 72 on Sunday after five more bodies were recovered along the city's coastline, officials confirmed. The unprecedented surge, which saw more…

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Sanchez demands EU emergency meeting over Ceuta crisis fallout

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has denounced what he called a "selfish, polarizing and unlawful" reaction from some European Union member states to a mass border incursion in Ceuta, demanding an emergency meeting of EU interior ministers as diplomatic tensions…

60,000 migrants surge into Spain’s Ceuta; at least 57 dead

About 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta within a single 24-hour period beginning Thursday, overwhelming the tiny territory's population of 83,000 and triggering a humanitarian crisis that left at least 57 people dead, according…