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Rescue boat carrying 82 migrants allowed to dock at southern Italian islandAmong the migrants is a 1-year-old boy from Somalia.WorldSep 14, 2019
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Italy rejects Germany’s call to open ports as rescue boat disembarks at LampedusaGerman Interior Minister Horst Seehofer on Saturday asked his Italian counterpart, League leader Matteo Salvini, to rethink the ports shutdown.WorldJul 6, 2019
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Captain of humanitarian rescue ship arrested after Italian police boat rammedThe 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.WorldJun 29, 2019
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What migrants risk trying to cross the Mediterranean to EuropeIn 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.WorldApr 22, 2015
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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.WorldApr 21, 2015
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Lampedusa migrant mistreatment video signals bigger issues: UNHCRA 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.WorldDec 18, 2013
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Maltese PM: 27 dead in migrant capsizing off LampedusaJoseph Muscat told a news conference late Friday that more than 200 people have been rescued and that the search is continuing.Oct 11, 2013
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EU announces 30 million to help refugees in ItalyThe 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 232Italian 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.WorldOct 7, 2013
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Search for bodies in Italy migrant shipwreck called off for 2nd day due to choppy seasAuthorities 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.WorldOct 5, 2013
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