European Border and Coast Guard Agency

The crew of a vessel belonging to the European Union's border monitoring agency Frontex on Wednesday rescued 78 migrants from a boat off the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos.

A 25-year-old man was detained on charges of human trafficking.

The Frontex crew transferred the migrants to the port of Lesvos.

There were one million migrants in the EU last year, half of whom do not meet the requirements to stay and should be returned to where they came from.

More than 20 migrants or refugees were rescued and one child died Thursday on a Greek island after the boat they sailed from the Turkish coast overnight either capsized or sank, Greek authorities said. 

Romania is transforming into the next big gateway to Europe for desperate migrants. Nearly 500 migrants have made the dangerous 200km journey across the Black Sea.

Romania's coast guard has rescued more than 150 migrants from Iraq and Iran from a ship in distress on the Black Sea, on what is becoming a new route for migrants trying to reach Western Europe.

The rusty ship was towed to the Black Sea port of Constanta, some 250 kilometers (150 miles) east of Bucharest, before dawn Wednesday.

Migrants are seen getting off a Singapore-flagged tanker in Iraklio Tuesday after they were rescued from a 25-meter wooden boat off the eastern coast of Crete. A distress call by one of the passengers to the European 112 hotline prompted a search-and-rescue operation early Tuesday. The Rhino's crew helped the troubled boat's 103 passengers on board after a Frontex aircraft located the vessel.

A Singapore-flagged tanker on Tuesday morning rescued 103 migrants on board a wooden boat off the coast of Crete after one of the passengers issued a distress call on the European 112 hotline, Ekathimerini writes.