Dozens of people are feared to have died after small boat that may have been carrying more than 60 migrants sank off Morocco. An NGO has said the passengers were left for 12 hours after calling rescue services.
A homeless migrant from Ghana who arrived in Italy after surviving a journey across the Mediterranean Sea over ten years ago has been beaten to death.
Information for relatives and friends of missing persons
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