Austria will introduce intensified checks at its northern border with the Czech Republic to stem irregular migration and prevent smugglers from changing their routes and evading justice, the country's interior minister announced.

Police in the Catalan capital Barcelona detained five people accused of smuggling migrants through the airport by disguising them as employees. All five had worked in the airport as employees.

Two people have been found dead in separate shipwrecks in the Aegean islands. More than 80 others were rescued after the boats they were traveling in capsized near Samos and Lesbos.

A union representing magistrates in the Sicilian city of Catania has been standing up for a local judge who claims she has been the victim of a "persecution campaign," after passing judgements preventing the administrative detention1