EU politicians visit Lampedusa as its migrant center overflows
Members of the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) visited the Lampedusa hotspot earlier this week.
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Italian court rules in favor of inconvenient port assignments to NGO ships
The Rome-based Administrative Court of Lazio ruled in favor of new provisions allowing the government to assign the inconvenient northern disembarkation ports of Ancona and La Spezia to Doctors Without Borders' Geo Barents search-an1
'My tears won’t stop falling': Families worry after deadly Greece shipwreck
A migrant shipwreck near Greece killed at least 78 people last Wednesday (June 14). Up to 500 passengers are still missing. Families of the missing are worried sick as they seek information about their relatives.
Pregnant woman found dead on Canary Islands migrant boat
The body of a pregnant woman has been found in a rubber boat used to transport around 50 migrants from the coasts of northwest Africa to the Spanish Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
'We must put an end to the deaths in the Mediterranean': More European ministers visit Tunisia to talk migration
German and French Interior Ministers Nancy Faeser and Gérald Darmanin are the latest European politicians to travel to Tunisia to engage in migration talks. During the two-day visit, Faeser said she's keen to lower the number of dea1