The two-week pilot, conducted from October 13th to 24th, evaluated the tools and processes within the Screening Toolbox ...

Every year, thousands of migrants risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea in fragile wooden boats, hoping to reach the shores of Europe. Many arrive on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where ...

Every year, thousands risk the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, aiming for Italy and a chance at a new life in Europe. Many land off the island of Lampedusa, abandoning their boats offshore.

Refugees and migrants stand on a wooden boat near the NGO Open Arms rescue vessel 'Astral' in international waters south of Lampedusa, Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea [File: Juan Medina/Reuters] At ...

MILAN (Reuters) -A migrant boat carrying around 35 people sailing from Libya capsized in the central Mediterranean leaving one confirmed dead and two dozen missing, UNICEF country coordinator for ...

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 ...

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, ...

Italian authorities on the tiny Mediterranean island of Lampedusa struggled Thursday to process thousand of migrants, as a flotilla of around 120 boats arrived from Tunisia. About 4,200 migrants were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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