Members of the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) visited the Lampedusa hotspot earlier this week.

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

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.

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.