An estimated 2,726 men, women and children have died over the same period trying to make the journey to...

A lack of citizenship documents means being foreigners in their own native land

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

  "The baby... held out its arms with tiny fingers into the air, the sun shone into its bright, friendly but motionless eyes...

Migrants interviewed on Saturday in told of a large fishing boat that overturned and sank on Thursday with many women and...

  The planned new raids are in response to a renewed surge of illegal entries by Central American women traveling with their...

  More than 30,000 migrants reached Italy by boat so far this year

Many states too worried about immigration to show much solidarity with those on the front line.

 

 

  Asked at a campaign rally on Saturday how she was preparing for Sunday's results, Merkel said: "I'm crossing my fingers...

  "The refugee camps were nightmarish and Europeans kept humiliating us all the time. "

  The EU is scrambling to implement a strategy to curb the inflow before warmer weather encourages more arrivals across the Mediterranean...

A group of British citizens offered to pay her $2,500 for each Vietnamese she managed to send over