The Greek coast guard said it rescued 40 migrants on Wednesday in the Aegean. They also arrested two of those on board. They are charged with "causing a shipwreck and exposing people to danger."
A child has died in a vehicle transporting migrants without papers across Hungary, confirmed police in the country’s capital Budapest.
The city of Catania, in Sicily, said that it provided shelter and assistance to approximately 15,000 migrants from May until July, among them pregnant women and children.
Italian authorities are considering how to tackle the crime of piracy which in Italy lacks legal codification. This follows the cases of theft by fishing boats of engines belonging to migrant dinghies and also of cell phones and mon1
The British government on Tuesday officially acknowledged that the Islamic State group committed "acts of genocide" against the Yazidi people in 2014.