One woman died, two people were feared missing and 87 were rescued following a migrant shipwreck off the Italian island of ...

The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa should be a holiday paradise. The most southerly territory of Italy lies exactly between that country and North Africa. With a population of around 6,000 ...

Italy's Lampedusa island struggles with migration crisis Some 12,000 migrants — more than twice the population ... Two Syrian migrants wait to be transferred to Sicily by ferry in Lampedusa, ...

While beaches in Greece, Portugal, and Spain took the most coveted spots on the list, Spiaggia dei Conigli (or Rabbit Beach) on the island of Lampedusa in Sicily was deemed the official best beach ...

Lampedusa, not far from Sicily and the closest Italian island to Africa, is a major destination for migrants seeking to enter European Union countries. Charities rescued many of the boats. Under ...

The prefecture of Agrigento with jurisdiction over Lampedusa has ordered the transfer on Tuesday of 220 migrants by ferry. The migrants will be taken to Porto Empedocle in Sicily.

Lying closer to Tunisia than to Sicily, Lampedusa was a stopover once shared by Arab and European navigators. A former colony of the Kingdom of Naples, ...

Non-governmental rescue groups that continue using the Lampedusa, Sicily airport risk unspecified fines and the seizure of their aircraft, it said.

World | NPR On Lampedusa, there's sympathy for migrants — as long as they don't stay. Some 12,000 migrants — more than twice the population of this island — arrived in a single week this month.

The post shares old footage to wrongly claim 7,000 migrants arrived on Lampedusa between March 23-25. Around 1,500 migrants landed on the Italian island on March 23 and 24, said the UNHCR.