Senators in France started debating a bill Monday that is intended to toughen the country's immigration law but advocacy organizations have criticized as a threat to the rights of asylum-seekers and other migrants.
Tripoli-based authorities are sending hundreds of migrants back to the border with Egypt on buses. Libya has become a popular transit country for migrants on the central Mediterranean route seeking to reach Europe.
Liliane Murekatete, the wife of Italian MP Aboubakar Soumahoro, has denied charges that she used funds for pro-migrant cooperatives to buy luxury goods in testimony in front of a preliminary investigations judge (GIP) in Latina, sou1
The private rescue ship Ocean Viking, operated by humanitarian organization SOS Méditerranée docked in Taranto on Saturday, disembarking 75 migrants, mainly from Afghanistan, Iran and Uzbekistan.
Italy plans to construct two migrant centers in Albania to temporarily accommodate migrants rescued at sea. It's the first agreement of its kind between an EU member country and a non-EU state.