A fake website about Germany's asylum policy has attracted attention and caused some confusion. The website wrongly claims that Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced that Germany would take in refugees from camps on the Greek I1
The Italian news agency ANSA has reported that seven people, including a pregnant woman, died in a shipwreck about nine kilometers off the coast of Lampedusa. Rescuers saved 46 people after the boat overturned, the agency reported.
A prominent figure in the Algerian pro-democracy movement Hirak was found among a group of migrants on a boat heading to Spain. Chems Eddine Laalami and others on the boat were, however, intercepted by the Algerian coast guard, a ri1
The southern Italian region of Calabria has obtained about one million euros to fund a project to fight human trafficking as well as sexual and labor exploitation, begging, arranged marriages, organ trafficking.
The European Union Agency for Asylum is intended to make the bloc's asylum procedures more efficient and uniform.