Several hundred migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean in the last few days. The migrants were picked up by private rescue ships and the Italian coast guard. Four people are missing after a boat sank off Lampedusa.

Two girls on their way to school were attacked by a man wielding a knife in a town in southern Germany. Police have said they arrested an Eritrean man inside a refugee home near the scene of the attack, as well as detained two other1

Charges against two navy officers in a case involving the death of 268 migrants, including 60 children, off Lampedusa nine years ago have timed out under the statute of limitations. Prosecutors had requested their acquittal.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella has attended the opening ceremony of the Rome MED Dialogue over the weekend, urging Europe to make its voice heard on its "southern front".