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Police in Italy said they had arrested 12 people allegedly involved in a ring that transported migrants from Tunisia to Sicily, with six suspects still unaccounted for, AFP reports....

The European Commission set out a 20-point action plan on Monday designed to address surging migration in the central Mediterranean, ahead of an emergency meeting of interior ministers, Reuters...

France has said it will deport 44 asylum seekers rescued in the Mediterranean by an NGO rescue ship it accepted after Italy banned the boat from landing last week....

The Israeli government has signed a deal with France's TotalEnergies and Italy's Eni to search for natural gas in the formerly disputed Lebanese territorial waters in the Mediterranean, the...

The richest polluting nations are spending 30 times as much on the military than they do on climate finance for the world's most climate-affected peoples, according to a new...

Tunisian authorities yesterday thwarted 12 migration operations towards Italy and rescued 405 migrants after their boats sank in the Mediterranean. The Coast Guard spokesman, Hossam El-Din El-Jebali, told reporters...

Tunisia's Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) announced the acceptance of 1,058 candidacy applications for the legislative elections scheduled to be held on 17 December. "We accepted 1,058 candidacy...

The European Union's Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell is not particularly perceived by the EU's political elite or mainstream media as a right-wing ideologue or warmonger. But seen through a different,...

A Tunisian judicial official revealed that the Italian authorities refused to return the Tunisian child, Linda, to Tunisia. He also pointed out that the Tunisian judiciary had decided to...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has documented at least 5,684 deaths on migration routes to and within Europe since the beginning of 2021, the UN Agency said on...

"Bury me up in the mountain .... Under the shade of a beautiful flower"

Qatar is interested in joining French firm, TotalEnergies, and Italy's Eni in exploring for oil in two areas in Lebanese waters, the Lebanese Energy Minister said on Friday, Anadolu...

Award-winning Egyptian lawyer Mahienour El-Massry has been informed that she has been banned from travelling, despite being told a month ago that she was not. Mahienour was informed about...

Algeria's state-owned Sonatrach oil company announced on Wednesday that its gas production is expected to increase by 10 billion cubic metres in 2023, Anadolu has reported. The announcement was...

Israelis are watching political developments in Europe with interest, particularly in Sweden and Italy, amid fears that the Jewish communities there may soon face problems. Italy, for example, is...

Five people were arrested in Rome and Brussels for smuggling migrants from Turkiye to western Europe via private jet, in trips costing around 10,000 Euros ($10,000), Italian police said...

The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) has confirmed that almost 13,500 Tunisian migrants have arrived in Italy since the beginning of this year. The figure is...

The number of Tunisian migrants landing on Italian shores jumped 23 percent to 13,500 in the first eight months of 2022 from the same period last year, a rights...

Nine Western countries yesterday urged the Sudanese political parties to begin a political process with the goal of "restoring a civilian-led democratic transition, with the participation of everyone, including...

Morocco's army chief Lieutenant General Belkhir El-Farouk started an official visit to Israel today to participate in a military conference in Tel Aviv. An official reception ceremony was held upon...

An empty chair stood in for Iranian director, Jafar Panahi, at Venice on Friday as the festival hosted the world premiere of his latest movie "No Bears" while the...

Watch our conversation with Giovanni Fassina, Programme Director of the European Legal Support Centre (ELSC), discussing the dismissal of Palestinian journalist Farah Maraqa by German newspaper Deutsche Welle (DW)...

As soon as I landed in Rome, I discovered that I was no longer able to access any Russian media whatsoever. Unfortunately, threats by European Commission President Ursula von...

The National Guard in Tunisia said yesterday that 1,509 attempts to head from the north African state to Italy have been stopped over the past eight months. National Guards spokesman...

The ambassadors of 11 Western countries and the European Union delegation in Khartoum yesterday accused the military rulers in Sudan of retreating from cooperating with the International Criminal Court...

The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) confirmed on Wednesday that more than 2,000 Tunisian children have arrived in Italy as irregular migrants since the beginning of...

Nine European countries on Friday expressed their "deep concern" after the Israeli army closed the offices of Palestinian NGOs in the occupied West Bank, accusing them of being "terrorist"...

The Tunisian coastguard yesterday announced that it rescued 255 migrants during 17 attempts to reach Italy on Friday night. "During the night between Friday and Saturday, units of the...

The new United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, is faced with a colossal task. She is...

Human rights group Adalah yesterday called on the European Commission to take an official and unanimous position against Israel's designation of six Palestinian NGOs as "terrorist" organisations. Adalah's demand...

A court in Rome has upheld a previous decision to suspend the trial of four Egyptian security officials charged with the murder of Italian PhD student Giulio Regeni. Regeni...

Nine European countries expressed their refusal to stop cooperating with six Palestinian NGOs that the Israeli occupation designated as terrorist organisations in October, due to the lack of evidence...