Lampedusa

• Rescue boat carrying 82 migrants allowed to dock at southern Italian island

  Among the migrants is a 1-year-old boy from Somalia.

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  Sep 14, 2019
  
• Italy rejects Germany’s call to open ports as rescue boat disembarks at Lampedusa

  German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer on Saturday asked his Italian counterpart, League leader Matteo Salvini, to rethink the ports shutdown.

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  Jul 6, 2019
  
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• Captain of humanitarian rescue ship arrested after Italian police boat rammed

  The German captain of a humanitarian rescue ship with 40 asylum-seekers aboard rammed an Italian border police motorboat as she docked at a tiny Mediterranean island Saturday.

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  Jun 29, 2019
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• What migrants risk trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe

  In the wake the "deadliest" migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea, migrants who have survived the crossing, and loved ones of those who didn't, share the perils so many migrants have faced.

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  Apr 22, 2015
• Are migrant deaths becoming a bigger problem?

  If officials confirm the exact number of migrants killed in Saturday's disaster, the death toll so far this year could be as high as 1,600. That's almost half of the number killed in all of 2014.

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  Apr 21, 2015
• Lampedusa migrant mistreatment video signals bigger issues: UNHCR

  A report on Italy's state-run broadcaster RAI has sparked an outcry over the conditions migrants and asylum seekers are allegedly enduring in one of the country's reception centres.

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  Dec 18, 2013
• Maltese PM: 27 dead in migrant capsizing off Lampedusa

  Joseph Muscat told a news conference late Friday that more than 200 people have been rescued and that the search is continuing.

  Oct 11, 2013
• EU announces 30 million to help refugees in Italy

  The head of the European Commission has announced during a visit to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa that Italy will receive an additional 30 million euros in EU funds to help settle refugees.

  Oct 9, 2013
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• Italian divers recover 38 more bodies from sunken migrant ship, death toll hits 232

  Italian divers recovered 17 more bodies Monday from a smugglers' boat that capsized and sank to bottom of the Mediterranean Sea with hundreds of migrants on board.

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  Oct 7, 2013
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• Search for bodies in Italy migrant shipwreck called off for 2nd day due to choppy seas

  Authorities say the search to recover bodies from a fishing boat that sank off the southern island of Lampedusa has been called off for a second day because of bad weather.

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  Oct 5, 2013