The southern Italian Mediterranean island of Lampedusa is once again flooded with refugees: since Friday alone, around 1,200 ...

After a two-month-long pause caused by legal obstacles, operations to take migrants rescued in the Mediterranean to ...

Forty-one migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, survivors told local media. A group of four people who survived the disaster told rescuers that they were on a boat ...

The body of a 3-year-old was plucked from the sea during the rescue on Sunday, while a 2-year-old died on board the rescue ...

A German rescue group says two toddlers died when a smugglers' boat sank in the central Mediteranean this weekend.

Lampedusa faces new influx of migrants, with increasing calls for help.

Italy's attempt to house migrants in non-EU member state Albania while Rome processes their asylum applications has already ...

Fifteen migrants were rescued by an NGO in the Mediterranean after a shipwreck, but three were found dead. The rescue ...

New legislation passed in January requires Italian appeals courts to approve the detention of asylum seekers rather than ...

Just over 66,000 migrants arrived in Italy by boat last ... by a rescue operation in the Mediterranean, off the island of Lampedusa, in this image from video released by the Italian coast guard ...

An Italian navy ship carrying 49 migrants picked up in international waters arrived in Albania on Tuesday, amid a new attempt by Italy to push ahead with a legally contested plan to relocate ...

The Italian navy ship Cassiopeia is on patrol in the waters south of Lampedusa island, with the aim of taking migrants on ...