Italian Interior Minister says he wants to set up centres to the south of Libya intercept migrant before they can make it to the coast, cutting them off at their source.

Malta and Italy, the nearest EU coastal states, have refused the rescue ships permission to dock.

629 people rescued mainly from Libyan waters remain stranded on a vessel about halfway between Malta and Italy after Italy's new interior minister barred them from entry. Our correspondent Anelise Borges, who has been on the boat over the last week has this exclusive report.

The breakthrough came at an international conference in Paris

The rival factions are hoping to agree on a political roadmap, including elections

UK intelligence services helped the CIA abduct Abdul Hakim Belhadj and his then-pregnant wife in 2004 from Thailand to return them to Tripoli, where Abdul was tortured. Now Britain has admitted its mistake and paid compensation.

Euronews has been to Niger, where many migrants are returning after facing tough conditions in neighbouring Libya

Saif al-Islam, son of Libya’s ex-dictator Muammar Gaddafi, welcomes Nicolas Sarkozy’s detention – and offers evidence for claims first made to Euronews that Libya funded the former French president’s 2007 election bid.

The former president has dismissed the Libya allegations of receiving money from the dictatorial regime of Kahdafi, as 'grotesque' and a 'crude manipulation'

Euronews explains what the Libyan case, how it all started, the biggest players in the case, and what could happen next for the former French president.

Rescue ships and Libya's coastguard picked up several hundred migrants on Saturday. Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted three migrant boats off Zawiya, just west of the capital, Tripoli.

They were the latest to be sent home as part of a voluntary deportation scheme

Since the fall of Gaddafi in 2011, which led to the disintegration of the security apparatus, Libya has been torn apart by the struggle for influence

Less than two weeks into the New Year and 81 migrants have already died trying to reach Europe.

The vessel Andromeda has been impounded in Crete. Authorities say it was bound for Libya and was carrying materials that could be used for making bombs.