A boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants sank off the coast of Libya and at least 55 people drowned, including women and children, the UN migration agency said.

Italy’s right-wing government pressed ahead with plans to crack down on migrants as hundreds arrived at a Sicilian port on Monday after being rescued by the coast guard.

Italy’s right-wing government has declared a six-month national state of emergency to help it cope with a surge in migrants arriving on the country’s southern shores, state TV said.

Guards at a detention centre in northern Mexico walked away when migrants placed mattresses against the bars of their cell and set them on fire, surveillance video has shown.

Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention centre, starting a fire that left at least 40 dead, Mexico’s president has said.

A fire in a dormitory at a Mexican immigration detention centre near the US border has left more than three dozen migrants dead.

Two migrants have been found dead and at least 10 others were taken to hospital after police in Texas received a call that they were “suffocating” in a freight train travelling near the US-Mexico border.

The British home secretary doubled down on the UK government’s commitment to the Rwanda deportation policy during a trip the country this weekend.

Pope Francis met hundreds of refugees on Saturday as he sought to promote legal migration routes to Europe as an alternative to smuggling operations that he said have turned the Mediterranean into a “cemetery”.

Mourners have attended the funeral of a Pakistani female field hockey player who died in a migrant boat crash off Italy’s coast. The vessel carrying Shahiza Raza and 170 others set sail from the Turkish port of Izmir last month.

In his St Patrick's Day address, President Michael D Higgins said we must 'extend a hand of support' to those fleeing the ravages of hunger, conflict, and climate change

The European Union has urged its member countries to deport more people who enter Europe without authorisation and who are not eligible to stay, saying that only around one in five would-be migrants who should be sent home actually are.

Italian coast guard and navy vessels have ferried hundreds of rescued migrants to shore. The influx of sea arrivals came in the face of a crackdown by Italy’s right-wing government on people-smugglers announced only two days earlier.

Simon Harris was responding to a question on reports that approximately 80 asylum seekers were sleeping in tents in Knockalisheen, Co Clare during freezing conditions

A player in Pakistan’s national football team who died in a migrant shipwreck off Italy embarked on the voyage to find medical treatment for her disabled three-year-old son, according to her sister and a friend.

Gardaí were forced to intervene as hundreds of people gathered in Cork's city centre this afternoon for two separate demonstrations, which led to minor altercations between the two groups

Less than a week after a deadly migrant shipwreck off Italy, five EU countries that border the Mediterranean criticised their northern neighbours for not accepting asylum-seekers under a voluntary scheme.

Survivors and other family members of dozens of migrants who died in a shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast have been paying respects at a sports complex as public viewing of rows of closed coffins began.

MRCI director Edel McGinley said: 'If we don’t act, we are going to create division and conflict in workplaces'

Rescue teams have pulled another body from the sea, bringing the death toll from Italy’s latest migration tragedy to 64, as prosecutors identified smugglers who allegedly charged €8,000 each for the “voyage of death” from Turkey.

At least eight of the dead were children who perished after a wooden boat broke up in stormy seas on the shoals off the Calabrian coast on Sunday. Eighty people survived.

Manuela Curra, a provincial government official, said 81 people survived, with 20 hospitalised including one person in intensive care

An 'enormous amount of misinformation' is circulating online, exacerbating hostility towards migrants and asylum seekers in Ireland

Justice Minister Simon Harris said he 'would like to do it', but would need to seek legal advice on the issue

Forty-three migrants, including 10 children, have been found hidden in a van in Bulgaria, officials have said. It comes days after authorities discovered the bodies of 18 migrants hidden in a lumber truck.

In one case, a man whose face was shown on the app along with untrue allegations that he had sexually assaulted people at a Dublin children's hospital was later brutally attacked

The man, who has been living in Ireland since 2006 and worked in retail for a decade, said that the camp was "peaceful" and "nobody actually noticed us" until the the trees surrounding the camp dropped their leaves.

Gangland criminal Wayne Bradley from Finglas, who has multiple convictions, has attended local anti-migrant rallies in Dublin in recent weeks

The claims that male refugees or black men carried out the attack have fuelled and heightened anti-refugee protests in Finglas in recent days

Migrants quit camp in wooded area of Ashtown in Dublin after protestors, accompanied by dogs and shouting 'get out', arrived there on Saturday

Nasc chief executive Fiona Hurley, said it was a 'deep failing to reach this point' in terms of accommodating PIAs 

In a sign of the deep political tensions over the immigration, Republican Governor Greg Abbott handed Mr Biden a letter upon his arrival that said the “chaos” at the border was the “direct result” of the president’s failure to enforce federal laws.

A vessel carrying at least 700 migrants has been intercepted off the eastern coast of Libya. It was one of the largest interceptions in recent months of migrants seeking to reach Europe through the war-torn North African country.

The former asylum seeker also told the PA news agency that Ireland is at the “bleakest stages of inward migration”.

All but two of the migrants on board died after the boat sank. Four people are still missing.

Around 100 migrants are currently being housed at the former office building near Dublin Port

Greek migration minister Notis Mitarachi said there were about 400 people on the vessel.

Passengers who had made a distress call overnight told Greek authorities the boat was carrying about 400-500 people.

Greek authorities have said a major rescue operation is under way off the coast of the southern island of Crete after a boat believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants lost steering and was drifting in rough seas.

More than half the children who disembarked from the Ocean Viking migrant rescue ship last week have fled from migrant reception centres, French authorities said.

The presidents of Italy and France sought to damp down tensions over migration by asserting the need for “full cooperation” and the importance of strong bilateral relations after days of diplomatic barbs over the fate of migrants crossing the ...

A maritime rescue ship has docked in a southern French port carrying 230 migrants whose fates sparked a diplomatic row between France and Italy – as well as fury from far-right rivals of the French government.

A deal for Europe to jointly help asylum-seekers was breaking apart on Thursday amid a French-Italian feud over a ship floating in the Mediterranean with its passengers and crew desperate for land.

France will take in passengers from a migrant rescue ship who have been stranded in the Mediterranean Sea for more than two weeks after Italy refused them entry, the country’s interior minister said.