Migrants at a holding center in Malta set at least five staff cars on fire, destroyed parts of the building they were staying in, and left one policeman injured. The riots follow months of new sea arrivals in the small island nation.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has urged Greece to move refugees and migrants from the islands to the mainland "to prevent the dangerously overcrowded conditions in the camps from worsening."
The town of Oughterard in the west of Ireland has won a battle to stop a center being built for asylum seekers. The campaign against the direct provision center had been joined by anti-immigrant activists as well as those demanding a more humane system for refugees.
The Bosnian government said 21,000 migrants have entered the country since the beginning of the year. The authorities said all of the country's reception centers are full, and they denounced the growing problems of lack of food and medicine.
Famous writers and poets who listen to refugees’ tales and then turn them into accounts or poetry to relay them to the general public -- that's the concept behind the Refugee Tales book series. Now on its third edition, the tales are based on a series of walks which began in 2015 in order to raise awareness about the situation of many refugees and migrants in detention in the UK.
A structure for asylum seekers in Brunico in the province of Bolzano in northern Italy will close at the end of the year due to the drop in migrant arrivals to Italy.
Two video recordings on YouTube apparently show private security personnel attacking two jousting asylum seekers at a reception center for refugees in eastern Germany. Police are investigating against four guards for grievous bodily harm as well as aiding and abetting.
The current system makes it almost impossible to escape the "rigid poverty" endemic in Germany, a new report warns. It also called on the German government to build over 150,000 new properties a year, to avert a crisis.
One year after the introduction of so-called 'anchor centers' for asylum seekers in Germany, the interior ministry delivered its first report, saying the new concept was a success. But not everyone is happy with their performance.
Less than a week after a fire broke out in the Miral migrant reception center, the center is back in the news. A fight broke out among about 100 migrants and resulted in injuries.
Inhabitants of Fürstenfeldbruck, a refugee processing center near Munich, told DW of overcrowding, filth and bureaucratic limbo, leading to at least one suicide attempt. Bavarian officials say conditions are adequate.
Humanitarian organization Intersos has said that the implementation of the Salvini Decree has created an "emergency" because thousands of youths over the age of 18 can now no longer stay in reception centers. The situation in Sicily is reportedly particularly bad.