A Nigerian woman has been arrested in the Puglia province of Foggia for allegedly forcing into prostitution young women and girls who had arrived in Italy from Nigeria using voodoo rituals as a threat, according to police.

The body of an Ethiopian woman was found in the forest in the Polish-Belarusian border area at the weekend. Poland's Human Rights Commissioner is examining a complaint over her death, the fifth in the border region in less than two1

Four minors aged 15-16 apprehended by border police in Ventimiglia are believed to be part of a group of migrants who had left a reception center in the countryside of Isola Sant'Antonio, some 50 kilometers away.

Dozens of migrants are thought to have died after their inflatable rubber boat sunk off the coast of Libya, marking the latest tragedy on the world's deadliest migration route. Authorities have retrieved 11 bodies so far.