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Italy's 'Libra' to arrive in Albania with just eight migrants on board
The ship, expected to arrive at the port of Shengjin on Thursday morning, left Lampedusa with only eight asylum seekers after judges in Catania and Rome rejected the Meloni government's decree on 'safe countries' last Monday. The clash between (...)

07 - 11 - 2024
Lampedusa: Von der Leyen, Meloni visit island after migrant boat fears
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 (...)

17 - 09 - 2023
Nearly 7000 asylum seekers arrive at Italian island in less than 24 hours
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 (...)

14 - 09 - 2023
Bodies of 13 women found after migrant boat sinks in Mediterranean
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. The (...)

07 - 10 - 2019
Spain sends warship to pick up migrants off Italy's coast
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. Italian (...)

20 - 08 - 2019
Spain offers ports to stranded migrant boat but chastises Italy
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. The Spanish charity and rescue (...)

19 - 08 - 2019
Hollywood star Gere speaks out to support migrants on Spanish rescue ship
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 (...)

10 - 08 - 2019
Italy: Bad weather halts recovery efforts
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. Financial police Maj. (...)

05 - 10 - 2013
Survivors of a shipwreck off Sicily live in terrible conditions, face criminal prosecution
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 (...)

05 - 10 - 2013
Five immigrants found dead on boat off Italy's Lampedusa island
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 (...)

17 - 03 - 2012
Over 600 migrants rescued off Lampedusa
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 (...)

28 - 05 - 2011
WOULD-BE IMMIGRANTS FEARED DROWNED ON THEIR WAY TO ITALY
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 (...)

18 - 07 - 2007
At least 10 dead as boat sinks in Italy
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 (...)

19 - 08 - 2006
Three hundred would-be immigrants intercepted off Italian coast
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 (...)

17 - 03 - 2006
Hundreds of migrants land on Italian island
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 (...)

21 - 12 - 2005
Further boatloads of illegal migrants intercepted off Italy =
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 (...)

03 - 08 - 2004
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