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.

Survivors of the Cutro migrant boat disaster with at least 94 victims claim they saw a "white and red helicopter" fly over their boat the night before their boat sank -- without providing help. The Italian coast guard denies is was1