Italy warns EU over migrant talks

More than 2,000 migrants landed on Italian shores in January, a tenfold increase on the same month last year, official figures show.

The captain and a crew member of a boat that capsized off Libya on Sunday, killing hundreds of migrants, have been arrested, Italian officials say.

More than 300 migrants, mostly Africans, are rescued from rough waters in two separate incidents off the coasts of Italy and Greece, officials say.

The BBC's Tom Burridge reports from the Italian island of Lampedusa, where authorities are struggling to cope with a huge influx of new migrants.

Italy is alarmed that a Tunisian suspected over the Tunis museum massacre in March entered by boat with other migrants, James Reynolds reports.

Italian police say they have arrested 15 Muslim migrants after they allegedly threw 12 Christians overboard following a row on a boat heading to Italy across the Mediterranean.

The Italian navy finds about 30 bodies in a fishing boat carrying hundreds of migrants between Sicily and the North African coast.

European leaders hold an emergency summit on how to deal with the large numbers of migrants risking a journey across the Mediterranean.

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