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

In discussions surrounding the shipwreck that took place off the coast of Calabria on February 26, EU commissioners firmly defended Frontex's response.