Italy on Sunday authorised charity vessel Ocean Viking to transfer 180 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean to a ship in Sicily for quarantine, the ship's operator and the government said.
Italian coast guards on Saturday said they had rescued 143 migrants off the island of Lampedusa although around 20 others were apparently missing according to the survivors.
The Italian coastguard said on Monday it had recovered the bodies of 13 women, some of them pregnant, after a boat carrying around 50 migrants capsized off Lampedusa.
Four EU countries on Monday agreed a new temporary system to automatically distribute migrants arriving in Italy and Malta from across the Mediterranean that will be discussed by the full EU next month.
Two Italian officers accused of delaying the response to a 2013 shipwreck in which some 260 migrants drowned will stand trial for manslaughter, a court in Italy ruled on Monday.
The German captain of rescue vessel Sea Watch 3, Carola Rackete, who was temporarily arrested in Italy for docking without permission so she could let rescued migrants land, said on Tuesday her "actions were justified".
For Cristina Cattaneo, the thousands of migrants who have died trying to reach Europe's shores in recent years deserve the same as any other disaster victims: a concerted effort to find out who they were and let their families know the painful truth about their fate.
The UN voiced concern on Tuesday over a law approved by Italy's parliament that imposes stiffer penalties on NGO migrant rescue boats in the Mediterranean, demanding humanitarian work "not be criminalized or stigmatized".
Italy will allow 116 rescued migrants on its Gregoretti coastguard ship to disembark "within hours", Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Wednesday, after EU countries agreed to share responsibility for looking after them.
Malta on Friday headed off a brewing standoff between a charity rescue ship and Italy's anti-immigration interior minister by offering to take in dozens of migrants it had rescued in the Mediterranean.
The captain of a charity rescue ship blocked off Italy with 40 people on board said Friday the situation was "incredibly tense", as Rome signalled the stand-off may be nearing a close after other European countries offered to take the migrants in.
The captain of a migrant rescue boat that entered Italian waters despite the threat of a hefty fine said she is prepared to go to prison over her bid to bring the migrants to safety.
The Sea Watch 3 NGO boat carrying migrants rescued in the Mediterranean said on Wednesday it was headed for Lampedusa island despite the threat of hefty fines from Italy's anti-immigration interior minister.
Italy's anti-immigration interior minister marked World Refugee Day on Thursday by insisting migrants rescued by a charity vessel are banned from entering Italian territorial waters.
On a moonlit night off Italy's coast, fishermen are hauling in the usual catch: cuttlefish, red mullet and plastic waste. But this time, they won't throw the rubbish back.
The Italian navy rescued 100 migrants stranded in the Mediterranean on Thursday, as 75 other migrants found clinging to a tuna pen were taken to Malta, officials said.
More than 60 migrants rescued at sea by the Italian navy and an NGO ship disembarked in Italy on Friday, despite Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's "closed ports" policy.
The remains of the worst-known Mediterranean migrant shipwreck, in which up to 900 people died, will be exhibited at the prestigious Venice Biennale art fair this week.
Two migrant mothers and their two children on board the German rescue ship Sea-Eye have refused to leave without their fathers, Italian officials and the NGO said on Friday.
Italian prosecutors have lifted a block on a boat that rescued 49 migrants off the Libyan coast and brought them to Italy in mid-March, the collective operating it announced on Wednesday.
Migrant rescue ship Sea Watch 3 has been given permission to leave Italy three weeks after it was detained for breaching safety and environmental laws, the coastguard said on Friday.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Wednesday that 47 rescued migrants aboard the Sea Watch NGO vessel could finally disembark after Italy and six other countries agreed to take them in.
