Ivory Coast and Gambia. An Italian appeals court in Rome on Friday refused to approve the speedy expulsion of the 43 asylum-seekers detained in Albania since Tuesday under a controversial ...

KIMBIRILA-NORD, Ivory Coast — With its tomato patches and grazing cattle, the Ivory Coast village of Kimbirila-Nord hardly looks like a front line of the global fight against extremism.

Cocoa has long provided a lifeline in Ivory Coast but adverse weather and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years.

The majority of those on board are Bangladeshi nationals, while the rest are from Egypt, the Ivory ... Italian coast guard in ...

A coast guard ship took 43 migrants from the port of Shengjin, 66 kilometres (40 miles) northwest of the capital, Tirana. They were among the 49 men who were transferred to Albania on an Italian naval ...