Four non-governmental organizations issued a joint statement denouncing the increase in administrative stops ordered by Italian authorities on humanitarian ships rescuing migrants.

At least 60 people died on a migrant boat that lost power as it tried to reach Europe from Libya, an aid group said Thursday, citing accounts from those rescued.

Spanish police say they have dismantled a network that offered families of missing North African migrants false information about the whereabouts of their loved ones in exchange for money.

Factors such as poverty and war, not pull factors, are driving migrants to countries like Ireland, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said.