The amount of social welfare received by asylum seekers has been a bone of contention in the ongoing debate in Germany about migration and asylum, with some claiming that benefits encourage irregular migrants to come.

Both Austria and the UK are pushing other European countries to revamp international rights agreements that include the United Nations Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights.

A police officer saved a two-year-old boy and his three siblings from a fire that had broken out in their home in the center of the city of Agrigento in Sicily.

Italian authorities has seized the German migrant rescue ship Sea-Eye 4 for the third time. The action comes after the NGO accused Libya's coast guard of putting migrants' lives at risk during a rescue mission in the Mediterranean i1