European Union leaders will hold an emergency summit on Thursday to address the crisis in the Mediterranean. EU President Donald Tusk made the announcement on Monday after days of waffling and...

A 13-year-old boy has been arrested in Spain for allegedly shooting a teacher dead with a crossbow at his school. The unnamed pupil opened fire with the weapon at the Joan Fuster school in...

As Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat met Italian PM Renzi in Rome, EU foreign ministers promised today to do more to stop migrant deaths in the Mediterranean by increasing rescues and catching...

The Deputy Procurator General of Palermo, Maurizio Scalia, has told the Italian media that from information received by his office, there are around a million migrants on the coasts of Libya, waiting...

A Palestinian boy who fled Gaza has told his harrowing story of being kidnapped, beaten, imprisoned and starved in his battle to reach Europe As Europe is accused of "closing its eyes" to the...

The Greek coastguard said today that at least three people died after a boat carrying dozens of immigrants ran aground off the island of Rhodes. Video footage and photos posted by a local news website...

CUBA ELECTION HAVANA — Two dissident candidates concede defeat in Cuban local elections that offered them a chance to become the first officials elected from outside the Communist Party in...

A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and...

Ten months after taking office, Cabinet ministers in a Palestinian unity government paid a rare visit to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, hoping to breathe life into a troubled reconciliation process with...

 Officials in Germany solemnly commemorated the liberation of two Nazi concentration camps 70 years ago in the closing days of World War II. Poland's first lady, Anna Komorowska, joined in...