ITALY is in breach of the EU treaties by returning refugees to Libya without even investigating their claim to asylum, the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) has said.

ITALY is in breach of the EU treaties by returning refugees to Libya without even investigating their claim to asylum, the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) has said.

A German aid ship with 36 Sudanese and another rescued African that has been sailing southern Mediterranean waters for three weeks in search of a haven has been turned away from a Sicilian port today.