Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s program to screen asylum seekers outside of EU borders in Albania has hit another snag with ...

An Italian navy ship has arrived at the Albanian port of Shengjin with eight migrants who will be processed there after they ...

One of the eight migrants brought for processing in an Albanian center after being intercepted in international waters has ...

Twelve months ago, Giorgia Meloni’s government signed a protocol with Albania to establish two Italian “asylum centers” on ...

A court in Rome has suspended the approval of detention orders for seven migrants who were relocated last week to a ...

Italy’s far-right government wants to offshore the processing of asylum claims. But the first migrants sent to Albania were deemed ineligible for detention there. GJADER, Albania — Behind a ...

By Emma Bubola Italy sent its first boat carrying migrants to Albania on Monday, part of a plan to send migrants who are rescued in the Mediterranean by Italian ships to detention centers in the ...

Under the plan, Italy is seeking to send migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by Italian ships to the Balkan nation, where their asylum claims would be assessed. Only “non-vulnerable” men ...

The scheme got underway amid controversy, with opposition MPs in Rome questioning its legality and calling the facility “Italy’s Guantanamo”. The migrants will sleep in prefabricated units ...

The first 16 migrants rescued at sea while trying to reach Europe by way of Italy arrived at the Albanian port of Shengjin on Wednesday aboard an Italian navy vessel, marking an extraordinary ...