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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 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.

Over 50 migrants were headed to the Italian island of Lampedusa Sunday after a charity ship rescued them from an abandoned oil platform in the Mediterranean, where one woman gave birth, according ...

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"We thought Lampedusa, with its hospitality and scenery, would be good for us." Not far away, braggarts are selling boat tours of the island, with aperitifs in the setting sun.