The bodies of 15 people were found on a beach near the city of Sabratha in Libya on Friday, most of them burned inside a charred boat. The UN mission in Libya has condemned the killing and accused migrant smugglers.

Germany’s interior minister Nancy Faeser has called for a national stop to expulsions to Iran because of a violent crackdown on protests there.

Humanitarian corridors bring new groups of asylum seekers to Italy and Belgium from Cyprus and Lebanon, with the last legs of the initiative carried out by the Sant' Egidio Community.

The CGIL union in Puglia, in southern Italy, has asked the regional government to urgently find solutions to empty informal migrant settlements, after a fire destroyed ten barracks in the infamous Borgo Mezzanone shantytown.