Over 300 refugees and migrants were rescued in seven dinghies off Spain’s southern coast after attempting to cross the sea from Morocco, the Spanish maritime rescue service said yesterday....

The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s Etihad Airways announced yesterday that it would halt its financial support for Germany’s Air Berlin, which recently filed for bankruptcy after many years of...

Deputy Presidency Council (PC) head Ahmed Maetig has accused the international community of covertly supporting Libya’s return to a Ghaddafi-style dictatorship. “Rebuilding a dictatorship in Libya will be impossible....

Italy is to re-instate its ambassador to Egypt after more than a year after the previous official was recalled in the wake of the murder of Italian student Giulio...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Saturday it was suspending its migrant rescues in the Mediterranean because it felt threatened by the Libyan coastguard and the Italian government’s policies...

An Italian tourist has been detained in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Marsa Alam on suspicion of killing a supervisor on a hotel building site, judicial sources said....

A German humanitarian rescue ship went to the aid of a vessel run by a group of anti-immigration activists today, but were told when they arrived that their help...

Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) signed memorandum of understanding with the Italian government to donate €5.6 million ($6.58 million) to rebuild areas destroyed by last year’s earthquake, QNA reported....

Comander of the Libyan National Army, Khalifa Haftar, on Wednesday ordered his forces to prevent any ships from entering the country’s territorial waters without his permission. This came after...

In meetings with Libyan officials last week, France set out its plan for resolving the Libya crisis without providing a role for the African Union (AU). Algeria has previously...

Italy began a limited naval mission on Wednesday to help Libya’s coastguard curb migrant flows, which have become a source of political friction before national elections expected early next...

France will start processing asylum seekers’ applications in Libya as of this summer as part of measures to prevent illegal migrants from making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean....

Head of Libya’s Presidency Council (PC) Fayez Al-Sarraj has denied claims that he invited Italian warships to enter Libyan territorial waters in pursuit of people-traffickers. Al-Sarraj met with Italian...

Italian Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni said Wednesday that Libya’s UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj has asked his country to help combat illegal immigration across the Mediterranean. “Sarraj sent a...

On 7 March 2011, at a special meeting held in the ancient British city of Derby, differences in the coalition cabinet burst into open argument. The issue at hand was whether to...

The majority of children who have migrated to Europe alone have done so escaping violence and trauma in their countries rather than with the goal of reaching Europe, UNICEF...