Approximately 5,000 people marched in Steccato di Cutro in southern Italy on March 11 in a protest organized by the Asylum Network (Rete Asilo) titled "Stop the massacre immediately". Nearly 80 people lost their lives in a shipwreck1
More than 20,000 people have reached Italy's shores this year and the government says the influx is deliberate. It now wants NATO's help.
Five migrants have drowned in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey after departing for Greece on a rubber dinghy, the Greek and Turkish coast guards said on Saturday.
At least 30 people are missing and 17 were rescued after a boat with migrants capsized en route to Italy from Libya over the weekend, Italy's coast guard says. Separately, more than 1,300 migrants were brought ashore in Italy after1
A judge in the north-western Italian city of Turin acquitted 18 left-wing activists who had trespassed on public property because evidence at the trial showed that they helped migrants who were trying to reach the border with France1