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.

From Ellis Island to Lampedusa, from Seoul to Senegal, filmmakers have used cinema to chart the hopes, heartbreak and quiet ...

The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa should be a holiday paradise. The most southerly territory of Italy lies exactly between that country and North Africa. With a population of around 6,000 ...

Lampedusa has seen an influx of migrants with 7,000 people arriving in two days, prompting its mayor and the United Nations refugee agency to warn the Italian island is becoming overwhelmed.

On Lampedusa, the lucky few who made it across the sea live in misery. Overcrowding, lack of food and police violence plague the people who fled to Italy praying for a better life.

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 ...

We need people and aid," said Lampedusa Mayor Filippo Mannino. Migrants queue as they wait to be transferred to the main land, on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy, Sept. 14, 2023.

The prefecture of Agrigento with jurisdiction over Lampedusa has ordered the transfer on Tuesday of 220 migrants by ferry. The migrants will be taken to Porto Empedocle in Sicily.

Lampedusa’s mayor said on Sept. 14, 2023, that 7,000 migrants had arrived in 48 hours. But it is wrong to say the same number of migrants arrived on the island between March 23-25, 2024.

Lampedusa's mid-20th-Century novel The Leopard became a bestseller, then a revered film – and is now a lavish Netflix series - why does it remain relevant today?

On Lampedusa, there's sympathy for migrants — as long as they don't stay. Some 12,000 migrants — more than twice the population of this island — arrived in a single week this month.

The Tale of Lampedusa European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni visit a reception center for migrants on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy ...