The UN refugee agency UNHCR has urged European governments to restart migrant rescue operations and to alleviate the suffering of thousands of refugees and migrants caught in the conflict in Libya.

Turkish human rights groups have staged a protest on Saturday in Istanbul in solidarity with Syrian refugees. The demo followed a government announcement earlier last week saying that Syrians would be relocated out of the city if th1

Libyan authorities on Sunday have buried the bodies of 46 migrants who had drowned at sea in one of deadliest incidents in the Mediterranean so far this year. Authorities said the bodies of the remaining 16 would be buried later.

The mayor of the Tunisian city of Zarzis has asked for solidarity from other coastal areas of the country to help bury the bodies of migrants who died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.