YEMEN: A migrant boat capsized off the coast of war-torn Yemen, leaving dozens of people, mostly from the Horn of Africa, missing, Yemeni officials said today.

Khalid al-Subeihi, an official with the Yemeni coast guard in the coastal city of Mocha, said the boat with 75 migrants on board capsized on Sunday and that 26 people survived but 49 were still missing.

BORDER CROSSINGS: Pakistan today opened three new border crossings to speed up the deportation of Afghans living in the country illegally, officials said.

Nearly 300,000 Afghans have left Pakistan in recent weeks since authorities started arresting and deporting foreign nationals without papers after the October 31 deadline for migrants without legal status to leave the country voluntarily.

TURKEY: A boat carrying migrants capsized off the Turkish Aegean coastal province of Izmir today, killing at least five people, the Turkish coast guard said. A further six migrants were rescued.

The coast guard said a search-and-rescue mission was underway for two other migrants thought to be missing after the rubber boat capsized in stormy weather off the resort of Cesme. 

HaberTurk news channel said the migrants were trying to reach the Greek island of Chios.

POLAND: Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki offered his conservative government’s resignation today as the newly elected parliament met for the first time in a transition of power following an election last month.

An alliance of pro-European Union parties won a parliamentary majority in the October 15 election and are expected to take power, but they will still have to wait, perhaps up to four weeks. Their candidate for prime minister is Donald Tusk, the pro-EU former prime minister.