Italy

Ukip says rescuing migrants off Europe “may actually be making matters worse”, while the Tories want to “dissuade migrants from making these perilous and illegal journeys in the first place”.

The UNHCR says that at least 500 migrants have died in the Mediterranean so far in 2015 – 30 times higher than in the same period last year. Channel 4 News asks if European policy is to blame.

An armed man facing bankruptcy shoots dead a judge and lawyer in a Milan and wounds two other people before fleeing the scene on a scooter, Italian authorities say.

Italian Raffaele Sollecito says being acquitted of the murder of UK student Meredith Kercher feels like “being born again”.

The decision to overturn the convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of Meredith Kercher may bring to an end a saga that began in a bedroom in Perugia seven years ago.

Italy’s highest court overturns the convictions of Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

The latest video of 21 Egyptians being beheaded in Libya is part of Islamic State’s tactic to gain funding and spread fear through the threat of the knife.

Maestro Ennio Morricone, 86, composed the score for over 500 films – including The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Once Upon a Time in America. But there’s one that got away.

More than 300 people are feared dead after attempting to reach Italy from Libya on four separate rubber dinghies, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) say.

High waters washed over canal walls and flooded St Mark’s square in Venice ahead of the first full day of the Venice carnival on Sunday.

Gulwali Passarlay, an Afghan refugee who came to Britain partly with the help of smugglers, tells Channel 4 News he tried 100 times to escape to the UK from Calais.

The people smugglers in Turkey are Syrians and they tell us they’re doing their compatriots a favour. Here, in Mersin Otogar, we meet a smuggler and a Syrian family desperate to reach Europe.

Facebook pages apparently set up by smugglers are specifically targeting Syrians as part of a new method of recruiting refugees to pay for places on board ships bound for Europe.

Channel 4 News looks inside the abandoned Ezadeen ship – a former livestock carrier – which carried almost 400 Syrian migrants to Italy from Turkey.

A ship crammed with migrants and abandoned by its crew arrives in the Italian port of Corigliano Calabro after being towed in by the Italian coastguard.