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The unprecedented migrant crisis in Europe, characterized by a growing refugee death toll led Germany, France and Britain to make a joint call on Sunday for European leaders to meet in two weeks to find concrete solutions to the crisis, Reuters reported.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will not allow the European Court of Human Rights to block the government's planned policy of deporting migrants to Rwanda. Speaking after the UK Supreme Court ruled the policy unlawful, he says he will introduce "emergency legislation" to designate Rwanda a safe country. "If the (European Court of Human Rights) chooses to intervene against the express wishes of parliament, I am prepared to do what is necessary to get the flights off" he says. SOUNDBITE
"A message of European unity to the people of Ukraine, of support". French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Kiev to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, after a train ride accompanied German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. +COMPLETE 32CK9Y3_EN+ SOUNDBITE
Pope Francis leaves the island of Lesbos, the migration flashpoint he first visited in 2016, after calling the neglect of migrants the "shipwreck of civilisation". IMAGES
Pope Francis affectionately greets migrants and their children in the Mavrovouni migrant camp on Lesbos island on the second day of his visit to Greece. IMAGES
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