Missions by French and German officials to Italian centers, as well as further German checks have been announced in the coming days in the "first concrete step" towards a European migrant relocation system, the Italian interior mini1

Pantelleria's deputy mayor says the Sicilian island doesn't have a "structured center like Lampedusa" to host migrants. "The numbers are certainly different, but the emergency is the same."

The civil rescue ship Sea-Eye 4, carrying 87 migrants, was refused permission to enter a port in Malta at the weekend and has continued on to southern Italy in the hope of being able to dock there.

A year after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, Berlin's efforts to evacuate thousands of at-risk Afghans are stalling.