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More than 30 people are missing after two boats carrying migrants sank off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa over the weekend. According to the UN migration agency,...

Three of the biggest foreign energy companies operating in Libya have lifted force majeure and resumed exploration in the country's oilfields, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced today, local...

Lebanon, on Thursday, handed over to Italy a suspected Italian drug dealer arrested weeks ago near the capital, Beirut, the Italian police said, Anadolu Agency reports. Sought with an...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has expressed his support for more countries joining the BRICS group. Lula said in the capital, Brasilia, yesterday that he supports countries...

The migrant rescue boat Louise Michel is back at sea after being impounded in the Italian port of Lampedusa in March. Yesterday, the crew responded to a distress call...

Irregular immigration into the European Union rose ten per cent in the first half of 2023 compared to a year ago, the bloc's border agency said today, with Mediterranean...

UEFA confirms that it has received a request from the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) to merge their individual bids into one joint bid...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticised the strategy adopted by her predecessors in dealing with Egypt over the murder of Giulio Regeni in Cairo in early 2016. According to...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has called to adopt a comprehensive development vision in countries experiencing an exodus of migrants as the only solution to the phenomenon of irregular migration...

In mid-July, the EU finalised a much-anticipated agreement with Tunisia to cooperate on curbing a surge in migration flows to Europe's Mediterranean shores, but international law experts and humanitarian...

Italy announced aid to Libya and Niger to establish projects aimed at "limiting the arrival of illegal migrants to Italian shores", Reuters reports. According to the report, Head of...

Illegal flows of migrants are damaging all countries across the Mediterranean, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday, as she called on nations to fight together against human...

Mediterranean and Middle East countries will meet in Rome on Sunday to boost efforts to stem illegal migration flows, with Italy saying the aim is to help countries in...

A sixty-five-year-old Irish activist, who set off to Palestine from Calais to raise awareness about the plight of refugees and human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, reached the...

Italian- Egyptian rights researcher, Patrick Zaki, was released today after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a presidential pardon for him and Mohamed El-Baqer, a lawyer who represented detained...

UN experts have this week raised concern about Tunisia's allegedly discriminatory treatment of sub-Saharan migrants, and urged the authorities to take urgent measures to stop collective expulsions and protect...

On Tuesday, Zaki was sentenced to three years in prison by an emergency court on charges of publishing false news over an article he wrote about the plight of Egypt's Christians

The general coordinator of the Swiss Initiative to Support Democracy in Tunisia has criticised President Kais Saied and his involvement with the Italian government led by right-wing Prime Minister...

Libya said Sunday that production from two oil fields south of the country has resumed after the release of a former finance minister, reports Anadolu Agency. Production at El-Sharara...

Italy called, Thursday, for the resumption of the peace process amid tensions between Israel and Palestine, saying recent violent incidents in the region serve as evidence of the unsustainability...

When Tarek Tookebry began raising funds to collect essential items for a humanitarian convoy to Tunisia's second city, Sfax – where black Africans are being increasingly attacked and deported...

The head of the Libyan National Unity Government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, stressed yesterday the need to unite efforts between his country and Italy to combat irregular migration. Dbeibeh made...

A new investigation by the Guardian and others has found that attempts by the Greek coastguard in June to tow a boat carrying roughly 750 refugees which capsized leaving only 104 survivors may...

Former professional footballer and former head coach of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, Antonio Conte, arrived in Morocco to spend his summer vacation with his family this week. Conte,...

An increasing number of countries are repatriating gold reserves as protection against the sort of sanctions imposed by the West on Russia, according to an Invesco survey of Central...

Italy will lift its air embargo on Libya in September, the head of the Tripoli-based government Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh said yesterday, Anadolu news agency reported. "The Italian government informed us of...

Pope Francis said on Saturday that it was a "shame" that irregular migrants trying to reach Europe for a safe and better life were dying at sea, reports Anadolu...

Amwaj, which in Arabic means ‘waves’, is an educational programme for children and youth in Bethlehem and Hebron established in 2015. It is made up of 60 young boys and girls ranging in age from eight to 18

Charlemagne, the 8th century Frankish King, holds a near-mythical status in European history. He is widely regarded as a stalwart defender of Christendom against an expanding Islamic realm. Additionally,...

Since Matloob Hussain from Pakistan went missing during a deadly shipwreck off Greece last month, his brother, Adil, has left the door of his Athens home open in the...

Tunisian Interior Minister Kamel Feki yesterday discussed the issue of irregular migration with his Italian counterpart Matteo Piantedosi, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said in a statement, Anadolu reported. The statement...

Pakistan has decided to charge the suspected human traffickers involved in last month's shipwreck off the coast of Greece under the country's anti-money laundering law, an official statement said...