Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi visited Lampedusa following several shipwrecks near the island. He promised local officials that a dedicated task force would be put together to deal with the large number of migrant arriv1
A group of 69 migrants and refugees disembarked from the NGO ship Humanity 1 in Ravenna, northern Italy, this week. Almost half of them were from Sudan.
A French court has ordered a stop to the clearance of a slum in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. But an operation to remove irregular migrants from the territory is continuing.
Lithuania has passed legislation to make it legal to deny entry to asylum seekers at the border. Rights groups and NGOs said it is tantamount to sanctioning widespread violence against refugees and migrants.
An 11-year-old asylum seeker has smashed a charity fundraising record and won hearts across Sweden after he described facing racism while out collecting money, the charity said on Tuesday.