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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa was overwhelmed Thursday as it coped with transferring thousands of people to the mainland after they arrived on small, ...

At first, the drowning men and women were mistaken for seagulls. Early Thursday morning, local yachters off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa still had no idea that a ship carrying some five ...

LAMPEDUSA, Italy, Sept 16 (Reuters) - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will travel to Lampedusa on Sunday, an official said, as dozens of the Italian island's citizens protested over ...

MILAN—Italian authorities arrested a 24-year-old Somali man Friday for having helped organize the migrant boat that sank last month off the island of Lampedusa, killing at least 366 people, in what ...

In July 1943 the fascist regime in Italy fell. It ended Benito Mussolini’s 21 year-long fascist regime. The crucial external ...