More food and drink has been sent to a pair of military ships off Sicily as Italy waited for other European nations to pledge to take some of the hundreds of migrants on board before allowing them to step on to Italian soil.

Rome (AFP) - France and Malta have agreed to take 50 migrants each out of 450 stranded at sea on two EU border agency vessels, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Saturday after pressing his European peers to keep their promise to share the burden.

A migrant aid group has accused Libya's coast guard of abandoning three people in the Mediterranean Sea, including a woman and a toddler who both died, after intercepting 160 Europe-bound migrants near the shores of the North African...

Spanish rescue group blames UK-backed force and Italian government policy for deaths

The number of migrants arriving in Spain by boat is surging, the United Nations migration agency said Tuesday, and it has now surpassed Italy as the top destination for Mediterranean crossings. The International Organization for Migration said that 50,872 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year--…

Thirty people still missing as rescuers continue search for survivors