Fresh testimony Wednesday from survivors of a deadly shipwreck in the Mediterranean raised the likely death toll for the past 48 hours to 240 people, confirming fears of rescuers who had warned dozens probably died.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will run for a fourth term next year, a lawmaker in her conservative party said, though her spokesman brushed off the comments and said she would address the issue "at the suitable time".
Ten bodies were recovered on Saturday from a rubber dinghy off the Libyan coast, the Italian coastguard said, adding that 2,100 other migrants had been rescued during the day. Fifteen rescue operations were conducted Saturday -- almost twice as many as on Friday when 1,200 people were rescued.
Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Tuesday for Sweden's tiny Catholic community, made up of many refugees and migrants, praising as ‘blessed’ those in this overwhelmingly non-religious nation who take in asylum seekers.
French President Francois Hollande on Saturday urged Britain to take in 1,500 unaccompanied minors from the ‘Jungle’ as officials stepped up efforts to finish demolishing the almost-deserted Calais migrant camp.
The number of migrants sleeping rough on the streets of Paris has risen by at least a third since the start of the week when the ‘Jungle’ shanty town in Calais was evacuated, officials said.
An Italian naval commander and several other officers are under investigation for manslaughter over a migrant boat shipwreck in 2013.
Workers escorted by scores of French police officers moved into the ‘Jungle’ in Calais on Tuesday, demolishing shacks and tents emptied of migrants being bussed to shelters around France.
Migrants at a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday hurled stones at police and torched temporary offices used by asylum officials in an hour-long protest over conditions.
Flashes of unrest were reported Sunday as residents of the ‘Jungle,’ Calais' infamous refugee camp, lashed out at government preparations to shut down the sprawling settlement in northern France.
Dozens of migrants were staging a protest at a detention centre in Madrid on Wednesday after climbing onto the building's roof and smashing furniture, police said.
Germany on Monday hailed three Syrians who helped police capture a compatriot suspected of planning a jihadist bomb attack, with social media coming alive with jibes against anti-migrant protesters.
