Pope Francis leaves for Cyprus and Greece next week, a five-day trip during which he is expected to bring some asylum seekers back to Italy. After a visit to Greece in 2016, the pope brought back 12 refugees from a camp on the island of Lesbos on the papal plane to Rome. A second group...

The sinking of a boat with more than 30 people on board this week is the deadliest migration tragedy to date in the English Channel. Migrant shipwrecks of that scale, however, are not uncommon in the waters surrounding Europe's southern borders. This year alone, U.N. officials estimate...

 Pope Francis is arranging to transfer a number of migrants to Italy from the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus, where he is opening a three-day visit next week, a Cypriot government official said on Thursday. Government spokesman Marios Pelekanos told The Associated Press...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of people trying to enter Europe without authorization has risen significantly this year to surpass migrant border crossing figures from 2019, before restrictions imposed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic severely limited travel, the European Union’s border and coast...