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...

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...