Poland's parliament on Thursday passed legislation allowing for migrants to be pushed back at the border. Meanwhile, another migrant has been found dead near the border – the seventh confirmed death in recent weeks.
An Italian court has sentenced a captain to a year in prison for handing migrants his ship's crew rescued over to the Libyan coast guard in 2018. The incident had sparked heated debate in Italy.
Various UN agencies have denounced violence against migrants in Libya after security forces shot dead at least half a dozen asylum seekers in recent days.
The bodies of 15 persons were recovered Monday evening, following a shipwreck off the Libyan coast, while 177 survivors were returned to land by the Libyan coast guard, according to UN agencies.
German police are reporting a further increase in unauthorized entries of people from Iraq, Syria and other countries who cross into Germany via Poland from Belarus. Almost 400 people were apprehended on the German-Polish border this weekend, a new record.
The international community should urgently send its promised aid to Afghanistan to avoid an economic crisis that could prompt a further refugee exodus, the UN refugee agency has warned.
Over 1,100 migrants crossed the English Channel on small boats on Friday and Saturday, the British Home Office has said. Some 410 people were prevented by French authorities from making the crossing.
Following days of mass arrests in Tripoli, the population of Libya's already overcrowded detention centers has tripled, say the humanitarian medical charity Doctors without Borders, MSF.
The Libyan Red Crescent says the bodies of 17 people were washed ashore in western Libya on Tuesday.
Migrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East continue to cross the border from Poland into Germany. Belarus, which is accused of pushing the migrants towards the EU, has passed a law blocking their return.
Libyan armed forces have detained more than 5,000 migrants, including hundreds of children and pregnant women, in a major raid. Meanwhile the country's coast guard intercepted and brought back hundreds of people who were trying to reach Europe.
Syrian families separated during sea push-backs are desperate to be reunited. But Cypriot authorities say asylum seekers do not have such rights.