'Ocean Viking' rescue ship docks in Italy after 8-day wait
Nearly 460 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean by the Ocean Viking ship have disembarked in southern Italy.
Nearly 460 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean by the Ocean Viking ship have disembarked in southern Italy.
The European Union has opened up a hub for medical evacuations of Ukrainian patients in Poland. The aim is to speed up transfers to European medical facilities.
Three migrants have reportedly been killed and eight injured when a car carrying 11 migrants drove off a bridge in southern Hungary. According to police, a people smuggler who drove the vehicle died as well.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has spoken against lengthy detention and systematic discrimination against migrants and asylum seekers in Lithuania and has urged that an end be put to these practices and that more humane alternatives1
Five bodies of men who had drowned while trying to migrate to Europe were recovered this week off the southern coasts of the Italian island of Sardinia within a span of only 48 hours. The wreckage of the boat has not yet been found.