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.
The growing number of migrants reported at the highway barrier A10 between Italy and France shows an increase of the overall migrant flows in Ventimiglia, at the border with Italy and France.
The charity SOS Mediterranee is urgently seeking a port to disembark 460 people rescued from the Central Mediterranean in ten different operations last week. Close to 1,000 people are reported missing in the Central Mediterranean so1
A group of Italian tourists on August 25, while on a catamaran off the isle of Kos in Greece, saved a migrant at sea. This is their witness account.
Turkey is cracking down on students and teachers applying for the Erasmus study exchange program. The government has claimed that some are using the program to flee abroad.