Italian police said they arrested 18 unaccompanied migrant minors who had arbitrarily left their shelters and were involved in drug dealing on the main squares of Modena, in the region of Emilia Romagna.
The MSF rescue ship Geo Barents was given permission to disembark 76 migrants in the southern Italian port of Taranto late on Thursday.
The Italian-Ivorian activist Aboubakar Soumahoro was elected to Italy's lower chamber of Parliament last Sunday. He has dedicated his work to fighting for migrants and workers who are exploited in the fields, namely those who are often regarded as "invisible".
French migrant rights advocates are concerned about the victory of the far-right in the Italian election. They worry that the situation for refugees and migrants at the Italian-French border and in the Central Mediterranean could become even more difficult.
The Maltese interior minister is worried that the number of migrants and refugees arriving on the island could spike soon. That's because the new Italian government is expected to follow a hardline anti-migration policy, following the election victory of the far-right Brothers of Italy.
Italian authorities have arrested 10 people in Caltanissetta, Sicily, on charges of exploiting foreign farmworkers who were allegedly forced to work extenuating shifts for less than four euros per hour.
Pope Francis has called for a "more inclusive and fraternal future", recalling that migrants "are to be welcomed, accompanied, promoted and integrated". The pontiff made the statements in the southern Italian city of Matera on Sunday (September 25), the Catholic Church's World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
Giorgia Meloni has claimed victory in Italy's election, and is set to become Italy's first female prime minister. This is expected to be the most right-wing government since World War Two, and will likely mean a strict anti-immigrant course.
As Italy gears up for the general election on September 25, a right-wing coalition government between the far-right Brothers of Italy, the League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia is looking ever more likely to come out as the winners of the race. This could have major consequences for Italy's migration policy.
A recent shipwreck in the Aegean left six people dead, among them three children. Now Doctors Without Borders has released accounts from the survivors.
Two Egyptian workers died in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday of carbon monoxide inhalation near Como, in northern Italy, the latest in a long spate of workplace accident deaths in Italy. The tragedy sparked a fresh controversy on workplace safety .
The Open Arms Uno has started disembarking 402 rescued migrants and refugees in Messina, southern Italy. Also on board is the body of a young Eritrean migrant allegedly killed by a smuggler. The charity operating the ship said he would now be given a proper burial.