The European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, has visited a migrant reception center on the Italian island of Lampedusa, after the country's prime minister called for EU help with small boat arrivals.
More than 8,000 migrants have arrived (...)
The Mediterranean island of Lampedusa is a first point of arrival for people seeking asylum or looking to keep moving north to other European countries.
A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia, overwhelmed a tiny (...)
Italian coastguards recovered the bodies of 13 women who died after a crowded migrant boat capsized in heavy weather as rescue boats approached it off the coast of Lampedusa, an island south of Sicily, local authorities said on Monday.
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Spain ordered a naval vessel on Tuesday to the Italian island of Lampedusa to bring migrants stranded there on a rescue boat to Mallorca after some of them jumped overboard, amid a prolonged stand-off with Italy's government over their fate.
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Spain on Monday repeated its offer to allow 107 migrants stranded for more than two weeks in the Mediterranean to land in a Spanish port but it criticized Italy for barring them from coming ashore on an Italian island.
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Hollywood star Richard Gere on Saturday called on the Italian government to stop "demonizing people" and instead help migrants who have been stranded on a Spanish charity boat in the Mediterranean for more than a week.
Gere, who visited the Open (...)
AlQa'dah 29, 1434, Oct 5, 2013, SPA -- Authorities said the search to recover bodies from a fishing boat that sank off the southern island of Lampedusa has been called off for a second day because of bad weather, AP reported.
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AlQa'dah 29, 1434, Oct 5, 2013, SPA -- The survivors of a shipwreck off Sicily two days ago live in terrible conditions and face criminal prosecution, a delegation of lawmakers and officials said on Saturday as they called for policy changes at home (...)
Five immigrants from North Africa were found dead on a boat south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, port authorities said on Saturday.
According to dpa, coast guards were dispatched on a rescue mission after receiving an emergency call from the (...)
Over 600 migrants from Libya arrived in
Lampedusa Saturday after being rescued off the tiny island by the
Italian coast guard, dpa quoted officials as saying.
The migrants were left adrift some 20 nautical miles from
Lampedusa after the vessel (...)
SOME 12 WOULD-BE IMMIGRANTS WERE FEARED
DEAD WEDNESDAY AFTER THEIR BOAT CAPSIZED WHILE ON ITS WAY TO ITALY,
THE ANSA NEWS AGENCY REPORTED, ACCORIDNG TO DPA.
AN ITALIAN FISHING BOAT RESCUED 14 SHIPWRECKED PEOPLE AND FOUND A
BODY AT SEA 187 MILES (...)
At least 10 persons drowned off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa early Saturday when a small boat crowded with over 100 refugees sank while a naval rescue vessel was
approaching the boat.
According to the Italian authorities, 70 people had (...)
Italian coast-guards said Friday they had intercepted about 300 would-be immigrants sailing across the Mediterranean Sea on a 12-metre-long wooden boat, DPA reported.
All of the immigrants, whose nationality was not immediately known, were escorted (...)
Hundreds of would-be immigrants reached Italy illegally Wednesday after crossing the Mediterranean Sea aboard several boarts, according to DPA.
One such boat, carrying about 180 people, landed on the tiny island of Lampedusa shortly after (...)
Italian coastguard officials have intercepted a number of rubber dinghies carrying a total of around 100 economic migrants off the tiny southern Italian island of Lampedusa, officials said Monday.
The migrants, who are said to hail from North (...)