Gaza-bound Swedish boats arrive in Italy

Egypt has refused to build refugee camps in the country, after an EU migration deal revealed that European leaders would seek to establish centres in the Middle East and...

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) has stopped exporting oil from the country’s eastern Al-Harika and Al-Zwaitina seaports, the company announced Monday. In a statement, the NOC said that a...

A rescue boat saved 59 migrants at sea off Libya on Saturday and Italy immediately said it would not welcome them, setting up a fresh stand-off with Malta and adding to...

Crowds gather to greet the crew of the Freedom Flotilla ships as they prepare to leave Spain

Egyptian and Italian prosecutors have found gaps in footage from inside and around Cairo metro stations where murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni disappeared in 2016 and will seek to...

A humanitarian ship that has had about 230 rescued migrants on board for almost a week will enter a Maltese port today, ending a standoff with Italy which refused...

The United Nations agencies for migration and refugees will present the European Union with a plan for “regional disembarkation platforms” around the Mediterranean where the bloc could hold migrants...

Leaders of 16 European Union member states met yesterday to discuss a proposal which would see detention camps set up for refugees in North African countries. Discussing the refugee...

British singer and actor Sting called world leaders “half men and cowards” on Saturday for their inability to solve the refugee crisis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has already played...

Libyan coastguards said on Monday they had recovered the bodies of five migrants and picked 191 survivors off the coast west of the capital Tripoli, Reuters reports. Libya’s western...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, struggling to avert a crisis within her coalition on migrant policy, is trying to set up a meeting of some EU states to discuss the...

A migrant rescue boat turned away by Italy and Malta arrived at the Spanish port of Valencia on Sunday, ending a gruelling voyage which has made it a symbol...

The Aquarius charity-run rescue ship arrived in the Spanish port of Valencia on Sunday, a week after Italy refused to let it dock with 629 migrants on board. Spanish...

Saved from death at sea but denied a place to land by Italy, the 629 migrants rescued by the charity ship Aquarius have endured an additional 700 nautical mile-trip...

Angela Merkel is to hold last-ditch talks to save her coalition government this weekend amid a major European rift over migrant policy. The German chancellor is facing open rebellion...

Italy plans to transfer migrants crammed aboard a charity boat onto other vessels today and then sail them all to Spain, despite appeals from humanitarian groups to let the...

Spain today offered to take in a rescue ship that is drifting in the Mediterranean sea with 629 migrants stranded on board after Italy and Malta refused to let...

When Hanab Ahmed’s 18-year-old son Mohammed did not come home for lunch or answer his phone, she feared that he – like several other teenagers who had disappeared from...

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed yesterday dismissed Interior Minister Lotfi Brahem from his position and appointed Minister of Justice Ghazi Al-Jeribi to act as interior minister on his behalf....

The Italian foreign ministry has called on Israeli occupation authorities not to demolish a Bedouin village and an Italian-funded school in eastern Jerusalem, expressing concern that such a step...

Sixty people were killed and 52 are missing after a boat carrying illegal immigrants sank two days ago off the coast of the Tunisian islands of Kerkennah, the International...

The Tunisian foreign ministry yesterday expressed “great surprise” at statements made by Italian Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, who accused the North African state of exporting “convicted criminals” to his...

Surveillance footage handed over to Rome by Egyptian authorities for an investigation into the torture murder of an Italian researcher in Cairo contains “overwritten and unclear material”. Egyptian judicial...

Italy has seized 118 ancient Egyptian artefacts which were smuggled out of Egypt, according to an official statement released by the Ministry of Antiquities. After Italy made Egypt’s Ministry...

Italy will provide Lebanon’s army and security services with equipment and training worth $2.4 million, the Italian Ambassador in Beirut Massimo Marotti said yesterday according to the Anadolu Agency. The pledge...

The Pope expressed his deep sorrow over the “deaths and injuries” caused by the Israeli occupation army on the border of the Gaza Strip, stressing his solidarity with them....

At least 2,600 migrants and refugees have been transferred to Libyan detention centres in the past two months alone, Amnesty International revealed today. The human rights group estimates that...

For the first time since its inception in 1909, the legendary Italian cycling race, Giro d’Italia kicked off outside Europe and, strangely enough, from the city of Jerusalem on...

The Egyptian Council of Ministers has approved an agreement to search for oil and gas in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of northern Sinai. Minister of Petroleum and...

Survivors of a boat that sank while crossing the Mediterranean are suing Italy over its collaboration with the Libyan coast guard which they say violated their human rights. At...

Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted more than 500 migrants on four inflatable boats on Monday off the country’s western coast and returned them to Libya, a spokesman said. One boat...