Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 17:15
Italy on Tuesday transferred migrants from a centre on the tiny island of Lampedusa at the heart of a controversy over unsanitary conditions and mistreatment, as protests continued in other facilities.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 23:03
The European Union published a list of proposals Wednesday aimed at avoiding tragedies like an October sinking of a refugee boat off Italy`s Lampedusa island that killed 300 people.
Last Updated: Monday, October 21, 2013, 20:36
Survivors of Italy`s asylum shipwreck disaster held a sit-in at Lampedusa`s refugee centre on Monday, demanding to be taken to Sicily to join in a memorial ceremony for the victims.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 14:05
Italian warships rescued 290 migrants in the Mediterranean and Sicily declared a state of emergency as Rome launched a huge patrol operation to scare off people-smugglers.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 12, 2013, 08:56
Dozens of people died on Friday when a boat carrying around 250 migrants capsized between Sicily and Tunisia, in the second such shipwreck this month, the Italian coastguard said.
Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2013, 21:05
A boat has capsized near the Egyptian port of Alexandria on Friday killing 12 migrants mostly from Syria and Palestine.
Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2013, 20:09
Italy rescued more than 500 migrants in the Strait of Sicily in the early hours of Friday as part of several coastguard operations, authorities said.
Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2013, 09:42
Italian divers said the death toll from a refugee shipwreck last week had risen to 309 after seven bodies were recovered on Thursday.
Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2013, 08:03
More than 300 people, mostly from Eritrea and Somalia, died last week when their boat sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 11:30
Over 300 deaths, including that of 83 women and nine children, have been confirmed in last week`s boat tragedy, authorities said Wednesday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 11:08
Just 155 migrants, most if not all from Eritrea, survived Thursday`s shipwreck. Survivors said there were some 500 would-be asylum-seekers aboard when the ship capsized.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 16:09
A ‘wall’ of bodies were reportedly found by divers from the hull of the ship that was carrying Eritrean and Somali migrants and had capsized off the island of Lampedusa.
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