LAMPEDUSA, Italy — The small harbor in Lampedusa is crowded with a fleet of dilapidated wooden and metal smuggler's boats, some half-submerged. Discarded life jackets, filthy clothes and plastic ...

Lampedusa has seen an influx of migrants with 7,000 people arriving in two days, prompting its mayor and the United Nations refugee agency to warn the Italian island is becoming overwhelmed. The ...

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, in 1986 the island narrowly missed oblivion ...

Many of those who survive the journey land on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Conditions in the island’s reception centre are said to be dire year-round as the arrivals continue, far outpacing ...

The migrants arriving now outnumber the entire population of Lampedusa. LONDON -- Tensions are rising quickly in Lampedusa -- a small Italian island located off the coast of Sicily -- after local ...

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 ...

LAMPEDUSA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The Italian island of Lampedusa is struggling with a record number of landings from boat migrants, local officials said on Tuesday, describing the situation as ...

LAMPEDUSA ISLAND, Italy — A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa was overwhelmed Thursday as authorities worked to transfer to the mainland thousands of people ...

Social media posts, opens new tab have wrongly suggested 7,000 migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa during the space of 36 hours in mid-March. The posts, published on March 24 and ...

Germany’s CompassCollective said the crew on its vessel were en route to another emergency when they heard shouting from the water and picked up the girl around 3 a.m. wearing a life jacket and ...