The penitentiary police union SPP has sounded the alarm on the record number of suicides reported in Italy's prisons in the first two and a half months of the year which it described as an "endless state massacre".

Late on Monday night, Cypriot authorities reported recovering seven bodies from the sea off Cyprus after a migrant boat capsized. A search and rescue operation followed, with more people feared to be missing.

The number of irregular border crossings into the European Union dropped by 25 percent in the first two months of 2025, to nearly 25,000, according to preliminary data released by EU border agency Frontex on March 13. While most rou1

Tunisia's national guard rescued 612 migrants and recovered 18 bodies off its Mediterranean coast, following multiple boat capsizings in the Sfax region. The rescued people, all from sub-Saharan African countries and including women1