While EU countries are proceeding separately on whether to pause asylum applications for Syrians, the EU's leading human rights organization, the Council of Europe, has urged members to "avoid the hasty repatriation of refugees from1
An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone says she was one of 45 who set off from Tunisia, all others are feared dead. The girl was rescued at sea after a three-day ordeal.
Rescuers overnight found the bodies of six migrants who died trying to reach the Atlantic island of El Hierro. They had set out in two of four boats to arrive in the Spanish Canary Islands from Mauritania in recent days.
Many Syrians who fled their country's nearly 14-year civil war have begun to return to their homeland. In Damascus, Syrian rebels have announced Mohamed al-Bashir as new interim prime minister.
Carabinieri police have dismantled an alleged criminal network accused of exploiting migrants in the central Italian seaside resort of Rimini.