Three men were found dead on board a boat carrying 81 other migrants that was rescued by Malta early on Wednesday. The charity Sea-Watch has claimed that authorities purposely delayed the rescue.
According to a report by the Italian statistics bureau ISTAT, the pandemic caused a decrease in migration to Italy in 2020.
Thirty-four refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos arrived in Italy on Tuesday through a humanitarian corridor sponsored by the Community of St. Egidio.
The bill allows for the detention of asylum seekers and curbs migrants' right to appeal. Lithuania claims neighboring Belarus is using migrants as a "weapon."
The town of Oulx, situated near the Italian-French border in Italy's Alta Valle di Susa, has continued to represent an "important crossroads of two migration flows directed to France," the organization Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU1