
More than 89,000 people, most from sub-Saharan Africa, have arrived in Italy by sea since the start of...

An official said that normally one or two bodies a day were found and that 41 in just one day is "an...

Almost 3,000 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean in the first seven months of this year

About 60,000 boat migrants have been brought to Italy so far this year

The humanitarian community this year requested $861 million to assist 7.3 million Iraqis in need, but so far it has only...

Asylum-seekers fleeing conflicts or persecution are increasingly confronted with walls or anti-foreigner sentiment

Three-quarters of the migrants were women and there were at least five children.

Under the accord, migrants and refugees who cross the Aegean Sea illegally are sent back to Turkey.

"The current system is not sustainable," the European Commission's First Vice-President Frans Timmermans said


The initiative comes after voters punished Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives in regional elections earlier this month

But the leaders warned that a Herculean task lay ahead to implement the accord.

Refugee children find moments to be kids in a long, arduous journey to Europe.


"We have to be careful. Many factories aren't providing food and accommodation, and they're delaying wage payments."