France is not Libya or Tunisia. The UK cannot simply pay it to intercept and detain asylum seekers at sea – both countries’ ...

Another body was spotted off the coast of Libya on Saturday (June 8) following the recovery expedition. The United Nations has registered more than 20,000 deaths and disappearances in the central ...

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 water ...

This year, popular Italian destinations like Rome, Florence and the Amalfi Coast are buckling under overtourism as record number of visitors embark in “revenge travel”. But other destinations are ...

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, ...

ROME (AP) — The Italian navy on Saturday began relocating the first 600 migrants from the Sicilian island of Lampedusa after its refugee identification center became overwhelmed with new arrivals and ...

ROME (Reuters) -Seven people were rescued and 21 people were missing at sea after a migrant shipwreck off the island of Lampedusa, the Italian coast guard said on Wednesday. The survivors, all male ...

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 only watch from shore as ...

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 ...

ROME, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Two people died and around 30 more are missing at sea after two migrant shipwrecks off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, the coastguard said on Sunday, adding that 57 ...

Migrants in Lampedusa's Porto Vecchio wait to be transferred by ferry to Porto Empedocle, from where they will be sent to reception centers across the country, Sept. 22. Most of them arrived in the ...