Cyprus has relocated 48 of a promised 500 asylum seekers to Germany as part of a new EU 'solidarity mechanism'. It was the first relocation between the two member states.
Switzerland has announced a temporary halt to its participation in a UN program to take in vulnerable refugees. The government says the influx of war refugees from Ukraine has pushed it to the limit.
A two-year-old girl from the Ivory Coast has died in a shipwreck some 10 miles south of Lampedusa. She had departed from Sfax, in Tunisia, with her mother and dozens of other migrants. Meanwhile, two migrant rescue vessels are expec1
Italy plans to launch a compulsory code of conduct for NGOs involved in rescues of migrants in the Mediterranean. Humanitarian groups warn that it will stop them from saving lives at sea.
The number of Iranian asylum seekers coming to Germany has risen significantly since the onset of the latest wave of protests in the country. That's according to a report published in the news magazine, Der Spiegel.