Italy

Migrants gather at Italian train stations on journey north

Hundreds of migrants brought to Italy after being rescued at sea camped on streets near Rome's Tibur...

Jun 11, 2015 06:31 PM EDT

Migrants race through Italy to dodge EU asylum rules

Last month, Dejen Asefaw was rescued with hundreds of other migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and br...

Jun 10, 2015 07:14 AM EDT

Putin visits Italy with one eye on EU sanctions

President Vladimir Putin will be on the lookout for signs of dissent over European Union sanctions o...

Jun 09, 2015 06:27 PM EDT

German government to speed up asylum process but puts off aid decision

Chancellor Angela Merkel's government and leaders of Germany's powerful regions agreed on Friday to ...

May 09, 2015 08:30 AM EDT

Brother says accused Tunisian was forced to captain migrant boat at gunpoint

The Tunisian man accused of piloting a migrant boat that sank off Libya, killing more than 700 peopl...

Apr 26, 2015 12:20 AM EDT

Migrant rescue mission must extend closer to Libya: Amnesty International

European efforts to save the lives of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean must involve search and...

Apr 25, 2015 08:13 PM EDT

Murder and abuse before deadly migrant crossing

Italian investigators are piecing together a picture of beatings and abuse that hundreds of Africans...

Apr 25, 2015 06:58 AM EDT

Prosecutors blame captain for causing deaths in migrant shipwreck

Prosecutors blamed the Tunisian captain of a fishing boat for causing the deaths of hundreds of migr...

Apr 21, 2015 10:11 AM EDT

France, Sweden, Italy obtain anti-trust commitments from booking.com

France's competition watchdog said on Tuesday that in coordination with the European Commission as w...

Apr 21, 2015 09:11 AM EDT

Shipwrecked bodies brought ashore, EU proposes doubling rescue effort

The European Union proposed doubling the size of its Mediterranean search and rescue operations on M...

Apr 20, 2015 06:38 PM EDT

Hundreds drown off Libya, EU leaders forced to reconsider migrant crisis

As many as 700 migrants were feared dead on Sunday after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean, r...

Apr 19, 2015 06:22 PM EDT

Italy's migrant crisis intensifies with murder arrests, drownings

Italian police arrested 15 African men suspected of throwing about a dozen Christians from a migrant...

Apr 17, 2015 06:08 AM EDT

Italy wants North African countries to rescue migrants at sea

Italy wants Egypt and Tunisia to play a role in rescuing stricken migrant vessels in the Mediterrane...

Mar 21, 2015 09:32 AM EDT

Italy warns of Libya threat as pressure for action grows

Italy called on Wednesday for urgent international action to halt Libya's slide into chaos and said ...

Feb 18, 2015 07:48 AM EST

Human Rights Watch cites police abuse of migrants in French port

African migrants camped in the northern French port of Calais in hopes of eventually reaching Britai...

Jan 21, 2015 02:51 AM EST

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