• North American Jews kiss Israeli soil as they begin a new life

    Oliver Weiken / EPA

    A family kisses Israeli soil after arriving from the USA with a flight bringing North Americans, who made aliyah and are now Israeli citizens, to their new home, at the Ben Gurion airport, outside Tel Aviv, on August 16. A total of 360 new citizens including 104 IDF recruits and 120 children was brought to Israel in a chartered jumbo jet.

    Oliver Weiken / EPA

    A young girl wearing a T-shirt reading 'Israel is my future' stands with her family on the tarmac at Ben Gurion airport on August 16 after arriving from the USA.

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    A recent report in Washington Jewish Week discussed the diverse reasons why Jewish people living in other parts of the world choose to migrate to Israel.

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  • X-ray images reveal 513 US-bound migrants in trucks

    TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico — Police in Mexico's southern Chiapas state found 513 migrants on Tuesday inside two trailer trucks bound for the United States, and said they had been transported in dangerously crowded conditions.

    Government of Chiapas via EPA

    A handout photograph provided by the Government of Chiapas shows an X-ray view of the inside of a truck where some of a group of 513 illegal immigrants were found in Tuxtla Gutierrez, northern Mexico, on May 17. Authorities detected two trucks with immigrants from at least nine countries when the vehicles crossed a checkpoint equipped with an X-ray.

    Chiapas state police discovered the migrants while using X-ray equipment on the trucks at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez.

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    A group of illegal immigrants are found inside a truck in Tuxtla Gutierrez, northern Mexico, on May 17.

    Some of the immigrants were suffering from dehydration after traveling for hours clinging to cargo ropes strung inside the containers to keep them upright as the trucks bounced along from the Guatemalan border, and allow more migrants to be more crammed in on the floor. Read the full story.

  • Passengers rescued as fishing boat sinks with 250 migrants from North Africa near Pantelleria, Italy

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    Rescuers help people in the sea after a boat carring some 250 migrants crashed into rocks as they tried to enter the port of Pantelleria, an island off the southern coast of Italy, on April 13. The fishing boat had sailed across the Medittarenean from Libya and ran aground today on rocks on the tiny Italian island of Pantelleria, killing two women, the ANSA news agency reported. Italy is struggling to cope with a mass influx of immigrants from north Africa, many of whom risk their lives by sailing across the often stormy Medittaranean in makeshift vessels.

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    Rescuers help people in the sea after a boat carrying some 250 migrants crashed into rocks as they tried to enter the port of Pantelleria, an island off the southern coast of Italy on April 13. The fishing boat had sailed across the Mediterranean from Libya and ran aground on the tiny Italian island of Pantelleria, killing two women, the ANSA news agency reported. Italy is struggling to cope with a mass influx of immigrants from north Africa, many of whom risk their lives by sailing across the often stormy Mediterranean in makeshift vessels.

    By John Makely, NBC News

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  • Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    A Tunisian woman carries her belongings as she crosses into Tunisia at the Ras Jdir border crossing after fleeing unrest in Libya on Feb. 23. Thousands of Tunisians are fleeing Libya, many across its western land border, after a bloody crackdown on protests against the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, state media reported on Tuesday. Tunisia has at least 30,000 nationals in Libya and officials fear they could become targets because of Tunisia's role in inspiring uprisings across the Arab world.

    Tunisians flee Libya

    Italy's foreign minister has estimated that as many as 1,000 people may have been killed in the unrest in Libya. Human Rights Watch had previously estimated 233 had been killed, with 62 killed in Tripoli in the past two days. Follow the latest developments here.