ROME (AP) — A court in Naples has convicted the captain of an Italian commercial ship of abandonment-related charges for returning 101 migrants rescued at sea to Libya in 2018, in a ruling praised by ...

(CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP/AFP) Years of criticism of an EU-backed migration pact between Italy and Libya are coming to a head as migrant rescuers say the Libyan coastguard has begun firing directly at ...

Migrants and rights activists protested in Rome Saturday against Italy's migrant deal with Libya, a day after some 20 people ...

MILAN — The humanitarian rescue group SOS Humanity on Wednesday protested Italy’s seizure of its migrant rescue ship Humanity 1, fresh from a weekend rescue during which the charity said Libyan Coast ...

A Russian ship is pictured at the Russian naval base in the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus in 2019. (Maxime Popov/AFP via Getty Images) ROME — Russia is moving military assets from Syria to Libya ...

The young Eritrean woman was exhausted, famished and dehydrated after spending four days in March lost in the Mediterranean Sea. She had been on a fishing boat with nearly 300 African migrants, ...

Last week, German charity Sea-Watch said its rescue ship was also shot at by the Libyan coastguard ... European citizens and people in distress at sea", and to demand the Italy-Libya deal be axed. The ...

Critics say Italy and the EU are complicit in human rights breaches by militias in war-torn Libya. — CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU Years of criticism of an EU-backed migration pact between Italy and Libya are ...