Europol: Portuguese authorities working in partnership with police officers from France, Spain and Germany arrested six members of a "prolific criminal network" after an 18-month cross-border investigation.
The EU border agency said numbers are spiking this summer after a dip in May due to inclement weather.
Tunisian security forces have committed "serious abuses" against black African migrants, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, calling on the European Union to suspend migration control funding to the country.
A baby’s body that washed up on a Spanish beach near the Mediterranean city of a week ago is that of a migrants’ daughter from a shipwreck that killed all the 15 people aboard in April, police said on Tuesday.
Amid racial tensions sparked by the death of a 41-year-old Tunisian man, rights groups say the Tunisian government is carrying out a “purging” of the city of any person of sub-Saharan origin.