On Sunday, July 12, Italian newspapers reported that a total of 791 migrants disembarked on Lampedusa and Sicily over the previous 48 hours. The governor of the Sicilian region has called on the federal government to call a state of emergency...
Turkish Cypriot human rights groups have urged a probe over reported gunshots by police at a migrant boat with Syrian refugees. Ethnically divided Cyprus, split by a demarcation line not recognized as a border, has become a popular destination...
The UN migration agency (IOM) has said Libya's coast guard over the weekend returned 83 Europe-bound migrants to Libya and brought them to detention centers. Around 6,000 migrants have reportedly been intercepted and brought back to Libya...
The British Home Secretary Priti Patel met with her French counterpart on Sunday, July 12 to discuss how the two governments can step up their action against the smuggling of people across the Channel. The number of those attempting to...
A regulation introduced by Italy's former interior minister Matteo Salvini that denies asylum seekers the possibility to be listed in the official registry has been rejected by the country's Constitutional Court. The regulation had been...