Greek security forces have kept nearly 30 migrants from reaching Italy via sailboats and ferries. Moreover, they broke up a human-smuggling gang that reportedly brought migrants to western Europe via Greece and Italy systematically.
Ten Afghans arrived in Rome from the Greek island of Lesbos last week. They are the first refugees to arrive in Italy via a humanitarian corridor after the COVID-19 lockdown.
The labor exploitation of migrant farmworkers in Piana di Gioia Tauro, in Italy's southern region of Calabria, continues amid conditions aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, medical aid organization MEDU claims in a new report.
In an unprecedented case, the captain of an Italian commercial vessel is to be taken to court for returning migrants he rescued in the Mediterranean to civil war country Libya. The man is accused of violating international law, unde1
Search-and-rescue teams have retrieved two more bodies from a boat that sank last month on Lake Van in eastern Turkey, according to Turkish media reports. The boat is believed to have been carrying up to 60 migrants when it sank.