Six landings, in the space of a few hours, have taken place on Lampedusa, where a total of 265 migrants have arrived, local ...

Besides the landings in North Africa, the allied powers also emerged victorious in their siege of Malta, an island to the south of Italy. They established a base there from which they used to dispatch ...

Feature'Beaches of Italy' (4/6). Closer to Tunisia than to Sicily, this Mediterranean limestone rock bathed in turquoise waters has become a symbol of undocumented migration, where two worlds cross ...

The disaster, in this case involving people travelling from Libya, is the latest to befall migrants making the perilous Mediterranean crossing from Africa to Europe. An Italian law enforcement ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rome: The Italian government has approved new measures to crack down on immigration, after the southern island of Lampedusa was again ...

ROME – Italian police and coast guard officials on Sunday rescued some 400 illegal migrants coming from Libya whose boat was tossed against rocks near port in southern Italy after the steering ...

On July 8, 2013, Pope Francis made his first trip outside Rome. Instead of traveling to a glamorous European capital or some other well-known destination, he chose to fly to a remote Italian island in ...