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 ...

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. Lampedusa lies ...

Lampedusa, Italy – More than 2,000 people and 289 children have died in 2023 trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of safety and a future in Europe. Many of those who survive the ...

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.

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

PALERMO, Italy, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Seven Bangladeshi migrants who were on a boat from Libya heading for the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa have died of hypothermia, Agrigento Prosecutor Luigi ...

In Lampedusa, Mayor Giusi Nicolini wants more support from wealthier countries in the E.U., feeling Italy’s southern region has shouldered more than its fair share of asylum seekers—no easy thing.

MILAN—When Gergishu Johannes, an Eritrean who has been living in Germany for the past 30 years, heard about the terrible shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa last year, she felt sure her cousin ...

The sinking of a boat that killed 367 migrants off the Italian island of Lampedusa is emblematic of a lucrative and growing people-smuggling business stretching across Africa and beyond to Europe.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has blessed a wooden cross made from the boats of migrants who have come ashore at the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa. Francis visited Lampedusa last August and ...

At the port in Lampedusa, recovery teams continue to fill trucks with the bodies they’re still pulling from the sea. More than 190 so far – and climbing. They are among 500 African immigrants ...

Lampedusa, Italy CNN — At the port in Lampedusa, recovery teams continue to fill trucks with the bodies they’re still pulling from the sea. More than 190 so far – and climbing.