A NATO reform is inevitable, President Erdogan said ahead of his departure for the summit in London.
Italian coastguard says it recovered bodies of 13 women, some of them pregnant, after a small overloaded boat carrying around 50 migrants capsized off Lampedusa.
Italy's new government allowed a charity ship to bring ashore 82 migrants in an apparent reversal of the uncompromising, closed-door policy of the previous administration.
The migrants were in three boats and were picked up in the so-called Alboran Sea, an area east of the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain's maritime rescue service said.
Libya's coast guard rescued at least 65 migrants, mostly from Sudan, with search operations under way for those still missing.
Crews onboard rescue ships say their vessels are being impounded due to ‘technical and operational’ irregularities.
Traffickers and armed groups have exploited the country's security vacuum, turning it into a hellhole for migrants.
While many blame the rescue captains of refugee boats and activists for their initiatives, they do not know that the EU and its member states directly contribute to migration waves from Africa.
Is the European far-right's claim that 'Syrian refugees increased crimes in Europe' true? Or is the far-right rhetoric far from reality?
Dozens of migrants are feared dead by the UN after two boats carrying 300 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean.
Amid potential US sanctions over the purchase of Russian S-400 air defence systems, Turkey now receives threats from EU members for its drilling operations in the Mediterranean Sea.
The sustainability of China's Belt and Road Initiative in the Mediterranean will depend on whether China can help defuse tensions in the Mediterranean while respecting each country's domestic concerns.
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