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

The 43 asylum seekers taken earlier this week by an Italian Navy ship to Albania as part of the government's new fast-track ...

The 43 migrants whose detention at a new Italian-run centre in Albania has been nixed by Rome's appeals court have been taken ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 resumed transferring migrants to processing centers in Albania, media reports said Tuesday. An Italian Navy ship, ...

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 ...

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