Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the strongman of the Tobruk government in Libya, has ordered his forces to bomb Italian vessels deployed in a mission to provide naval support to Libya, according to a tweet published by broadcaster Al Arabiya.
Dozens of protesters in Crete have staged a demonstration against the potential mooring of the C-Star, a ship chartered by far-right activists aiming to prevent migrant rescues in the Mediterranean on the Greek island.
Migrants who arrive in Spain following the Western Mediterranean route are held in precarious conditions and find obstacles to requesting asylum, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) presented by Judith Sunderland, the1
Nearly half of all asylum applicants rejected by Germany then take their cases before German courts. The BAMF refugee agency says 47 percent of its 119,000 negative decisions made so far this year went to appeal.
Italian authorities say they've seized a migrant rescue boat used by German NGO "Jugend Rettet" in the Mediterranean. It happened the same day Italy's parliament approved a naval mission to deter migrant arrivals.