The European Union is to launch military operations against the networks of smugglers in Libya deemed culpable of sending thousands of people to their deaths in the Mediterranean. An...

A court in Egypt has sentenced former President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison over the killing of protesters while he was still in power. It is the first ruling he has faced since his...

Dutch police detained a man in connection with a fire at the British embassy in The Hague earlier today, they said in a tweet. "One man has been detained in relation to the fire at the British...

Parishioners in a southern Chile diocese are gathering wherever their new bishop appears, but their presence is not the sort of assembly the Catholic Church would expect. In the month...

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Prosecutors said Tuesday that they arrested the captain and a crew member of the boat in which as many as 900 people are feared to have drowned in the unremitting waves of migrants seeking to escape...

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...