EXCLUSIVE: Venice Golden Lion director Gianfranco Rosi returns to the festival in Competition this year with black-and-white ...

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 ...

Found at Italy's southernmost point, sitting between Sicily and North Africa, Lampedusa is the largest of the Pelagie Islands. Perhaps the island's biggest claim to fame is Spiaggia dei Conigli ...

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.

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.

Tensions are rising quickly in Lampedusa -- a small Italian island located off the coast of Sicily -- after local officials said around 6,700 migrants arrived this week, with many asking to be relocat ...

LAMPEDUSA ISLAND, Italy — A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa was overwhelmed Thursday as it grappled with transferring to the mainland thousands of migrants ...

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has pledged action to help Italy’s crisis-hit island of Lampedusa during a visit on Sunday, after the island was left struggling to cope with an influx of migrants.

LAMPEDUSA ISLAND, Italy — With the help of a local fishing boat, hundreds of migrants were transferred on Saturday to a ferry from a tiny Italian island to relieve severe overcrowding during the ...

LAMPEDUSA, Sicily (AP) — The tiny Mediterranean island of Lampedusa is in the throes of yet another season of migrants arriving by sea, and Ibrahima Mbaye and Waly Sarr can ...

The sinking of a boat that killed 367 migrants off the Italian island of Lampedusa is emblematic of a lucrative and growing people-smuggling business stretching across Africa and beyond to Europe.

MILAN—When Gergishu Johannes, an Eritrean who has been living in Germany for the past 30 years, heard about the terrible shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa last year, she felt sure her cousin ...