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In this photo of August 30, 2018, a migrant woman stands in front of an eastern supermarket in Flen, some 100 km west of Stockholm, Sweden. The city has hosted so many asylum seekers in recent years that they now represent about a quarter of the population. (Michael Probst / Associated Press)
MADRID – The latest news on the migrant crisis in Europe (always local):
11:05
Germany's interior minister said the issue of migration is "the mother of all political problems in this country".
Horst Seehofer, who also runs the Bavarian equivalent of Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right party, told Rheinische Post in an interview published on Thursday that voters are linking their concerns to the issue of migration.
Mr Seehofer has taken a stronger stance on migrants than Merkel, sometimes fighting with her publicly, while her party in the Christian Social Union was facing heavy losses in the Bavarian parliamentary elections next.
Germany has welcomed more than one million people seeking shelter from the war and persecution since 2015.
Seehofer told the newspaper that he had understood the explosion of public anger observed in the city of Chemnitz, in the east of the country, as a result of a deadly stabbing blown at migrants.
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10:45
The Spanish authorities claim that the rescuers found five migrants and 53 survivors in a boat partially sunk in the waters east of the Strait of Gibraltar.
The Maritime Rescue Service announced Thursday that a surveillance aircraft had discovered the canoe in a part of the Mediterranean known as the Alboran Sea on Wednesday. The bodies and survivors were taken to Almeria.
The service said 181 migrants from North Africa – mostly adult men – were rescued Thursday morning by five boats trying the shortest route to Europe.
On Wednesday, 501 people were fired from 12 boats, and three migrants crossed the Alboran Sea in a jet ski.
A recent increase in migrant arrivals has put a strain on public services and put pressure on the Spanish government.
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