The Libyan coast guard reportedly ordered a Sea-Watch aircraft to leave or face being fired at with missiles. The Libyans ultimately pulled migrants from the Mediterranean before sinking their boat.
Matteo Salvini is back in the Italian government as deputy premier and infrastructure minister. In his first act as minister, he met the head of Italy's coast guards. Opposition politicians accused the League leader of 'promoting a1
Forty organizations and Italy's three leading trade unions have appealed to the government to revoke the 2017 Memorandum with Libya. Otherwise, the deal will be automatically renewed on November 2 for three years.
Several migrants were found having suffered physical abuse on the Greek Island of Lesbos last week. The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity says that it is the latest reported attack on would-be refugees trying to reach the EU.
The top countries of origin of the migrants who came to Italy in 2021 were countries particularly hard hit by climate-linked phenomena such as prolonged drought and extreme flooding, according to a new study by the Rome-based IDOS S1