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One man has died and about 30 other people have been rescued in the Channel after their boat ran into difficulties while trying to cross from northern France to Britain on Friday, prosecutors say. The victim is believed to be in his 20s and to be of Sudanese origin, the prosecutor's office in Boulogne-sur-Mer said, adding that the others had been rescued in waters off the village of Berck. IMAGES of Berck beach
Pope Francis begins his visit to the Mavrovouni migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos where he is expected to highlight refugee issues and call for their integration in Europe in the face of anti-migrant sentiment. IMAGES
Pope Francis arrives to the Mavrovouni migrant camp on Lesbos island, where he is expected to plead for better treatment of refugees as attitudes towards migrants harden across Europe. IMAGES
The Bohoniki Muslim cemetery belonging to the centuries-old Tatar community in eastern Poland is to be the burial ground for a Syrian migrant who drowned in a river while trying to cross the border between Poland and Belarus. IMAGES of the cemetery
The EU's home affairs commissioner says she is "extremely concerned" by reports of illegal, sometimes violent, migrant pushbacks at the bloc's borders, particularly in Greece in Croatia where she called for probes. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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