Italy has no clear plan for 10,000 North African migrants who landed on resort island Thousands of migrants from North Africa have landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Italy has no clear ...

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 ...

Susanna Zanfrini, IRC’s Italy Country Director, said: “A decade has passed since the Lampedusa shipwreck claimed more than 360 lives and served as a brief wakeup call for the international community.

Seven Syrians were rescued and taken to the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, Italian rescuers said. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 63°F. Tuesday, May 27th 2025 ...

Italy said on Tuesday that planes used by charities to track migrant boats in difficulty would no longer be able to fly from airports on the islands of Sicily, Pantelleria and Lampedusa that are ...

Italy's Lampedusa island struggles with migration crisis Some 12,000 migrants — more than twice the population of this island — arrived in a single week this month.

ROME — Italy’s aviation authority has barred humanitarian migrant rescue groups from using a Sicilian airport to launch search and rescue flights over the Mediterranean, in the government’s ...

This Beach Was Named No. 1 in Italy—and Its Called 'Paradise on Earth' by Travelers ... you can take a bus from Lampedusa’s city center, walk (it’s about a 1-hour trek), bike, ...

The image made from a video provided by the Italian coast guard shows a patrol boat rescuing migrants from a sinking ship off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy. (Italian Coast Guard via AP ...

ROME (Reuters) -One woman died, two people were feared missing and 87 were rescued following a migrant shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, a U.N. migration agency official said on Monday.