Italy should revoke its damaging migrant cooperation agreement with Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. The Italy-Libya ...

The agreement, designed to curb irregular migration across the central Mediterranean, provides Libya’s Coast Guard with ...

Years of criticism of an EU-backed migration pact between Italy and Libya are coming to a head as migrant rescuers say the ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called on Italy to revoke its migrant cooperation agreement with Libya, saying the arrangement 'has proven to be a framework for violence and suffering, and should ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and interim Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh review the honor guard in Tripoli, Libya, May 7, 2024 (AP photo by Yousef Murad). As working summits between ...

ROME (Reuters) - At least three people have died, including two children aged 3 and 4, in a Mediterranean sea crossing from Libya to Italy, a German sea rescue charity said on Sunday, adding that it ...

Since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has faced more than a decade of instability and civil conflict. The prolonged insecurity has negatively impacted Italy’s interests in Libya and ...

, Aug. 21 -- A total of 175 irregular Bangladeshis, who wanted to return home voluntarily from Benghazi and its surrounding areas of Libya, were repatriated on Thursday. They returned home at 6:15 am ...

ROME, Italy – A first group of 162 refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Yemen has arrived safely in Italy from Libya, in a landmark operation putting an end to months of detention and ...

The first rescue took place during the night, with six migrants saved from a boat in distress. According to a press release issued by the NGO Sea Watch, after rescuing 67 people on an overcrowded boat ...