A group of migrants went on rampaging in Malta, and torched at least five cars and injured a policeman in a holding centre, demanding to be let free, news wires reported. The violence broke out Sunday night at a former British army barracks, close to Malta's airport. The migrants took control of part of the compound, and the situation was brought back under control only in the early hours of Monday.

A knife-wielding Afghan man killed one person and badly wounded another in a series of attacks in Austria on Monday, police said. The man, 33, wounded a staff member at a refugee centre in Wullowitz, near the border with the Czech Republic, before fleeing the scene by bicycle. He then stabbed to death a nearby resident and took his car, police said.

A nucleus of four EU countries was trying Tuesday to coax more reluctant member states to take a share of rescued asylum-seekers, a day after another Mediterranean migrant boat tragedy. Germany, France, Italy and Malta were seeking support from colleagues in an EU interior ministers' meeting in Luxembourg for an agreement they worked out 23 September in Malta meant to serve as a six-month, stop-gap plan pending a long-delayed reform of the EU's asylum policy.

Thousands of migrants clogged at overcrowded migrant camps on the island of Lesbos in Greece should return to Turkey, the Greek government declared last Monday, a day after a deadly fire broke out at the Moria camp. Athens wants to send back to Turkey at least 10,000 migrants by the end of 2020, in a bid to ease pressure on the overcrowded camps at the Aegean islands, the government said in a statement following the four-hour cabinet meeting.

The Greek coast guard has sent a new request, the second within three weeks, for additional assistance from Frontex, amid the recent surge in migrant flows to the islands of the eastern Aegean, Kathimerini newspaper reported on Monday. More specifically, Greece has asked the European Border and Coast Guard Agency to provide state-of-the-art monitoring equipment – mainly radars and thermal cameras.

Meeting in Rome on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian PM Giuseppe Conte agreed that EU must introduce a new, automatic system of taking in migrants saved from the Mediterranean, news wires reported. The issue has caused particular tensions between Rome and Paris, with Italy complaining that French non-governmental organisations have been instrumental in rescuing migrants but that France has not done enough to help take them in.

Germany is ready to take in a quarter of migrants who reach Italy by sea, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in remarks published on Friday, ahead of EU talks on immigration later this month. EU interior ministers will meet in Malta on 23 September in a new attempt to find a temporary solution on sharing out the care for migrants who reach the bloc’s shores.

The European Union agreed on Thursday to extend its anti-migrant-smuggling mission Sophia along the Libyan coast by six months, but still without naval support, news wires reported.

Hundreds of migrants arrived on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos over the weekend and in the early hours of Monday, official figures showed. A total of 227 migrants landed on the island between midnight on Sunday and 9.30 a.m. on Monday, according to the police, with another 228 reaching Lesvos from neighboring Turkey on Saturday and Sunday.

Migrants rescued by charity rescue ship Ocean Viking were brought to Malta late on Friday night after an EU-brokered deal allowed their relocation to six member states, news wires reported. The 356 people rescued by the crew of the Norwegian-flagged rescue vessel were transferred to a Maltese Armed Forces patrol boat in the afternoon and reached shore late at night.