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Italy to pass tougher measures to deter migrant arrivals

By Angelo Amante ROME, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The Italian government, struggling with a surge in migrant arrivals, will pass measures on Monday to lengthen the time migrants can be…

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Migrants protest at Lampedusa port, Meloni says priority to stop arrivals to Italy

There were moments of tension at Lampedusa port on Wednesday afternoon as hundreds of migrants and refugees who had recently disembarked on the island demanded to be allowed to leave…

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Italy’s Lampedusa island hit with record migrant arrivals

LAMPEDUSA (Reuters) - The Italian island of Lampedusa is struggling with a record number of landings from boat migrants, local officials said, describing the situation as "dramatic." Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost…

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Record migrant arrivals on Lampedusa

Lampedusa was under serious pressure on Saturday following the arrival on the island of a record 1,918 people in 65 landings on Friday and a further 1,116 people in 29…

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Two dead, 57 rescued from migrant shipwrecks off Italy’s Lampedusa

ROME, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Italy's coastguard said on Sunday it had recovered two bodies and rescued 57 people off the southern island of Lampedusa, amid reports that more than…

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Sicily Governor says island ‘swamped’ by migrant landings; Tension at Lampedusa hotspot

Sicily Governor Renato Schifani on Monday denounced the emergency situation on the island region, saying in the last month it has been "swamped" by the arrival of migrants and refugees…

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Italy starts relocating refugees after Lampedusa centre overcrowding

The Italian navy is relocating hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers from the Sicilian island of Lampedusa after its refugee identification centre was overwhelmed with new arrivals. The Italian Interior…

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Seven migrants on boat bound for Lampedusa die of hypothermia

At least seven migrants who were on a boat heading for the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa have died of hypothermia, Italy's ANSA news agency reported on Tuesday. The coastguard sighted the boat…

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Over 1,000 people at Lampedusa migrant hotspot

The migrant hotspot on the Italian island of Lampedusa was badly overcrowded on Thursday, with four more boats carrying 210 people continuing a long series of landings.At the time of…

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10 landings with 177 people in Lampedusa

Ten boats, with 177 migrants, arrived in Lampedusa on Saturday night. Nine landings arrived before midnight and brought the landings on Saturday to 30 in the space of 24 hours. The…

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Migrant boat capsizes off Lampedusa, 7 dead

At least seven migrants drowned after a boat carrying them capsized five miles off the Italian island of Lampedusa early on Wednesday, ANSA news agency reported. Another nine were still…

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Lampedusa sees 14 migrant landings in one day

There are currently 1,215 migrants present at the Lampedusa hotspot shelter, after the 14 landings on the island in less than 12 hours. At dawn on Saturday, the shelter was…

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UPDATE – More than 1,400 migrants arrive on Italy’s Lampedusa

Fifteen boats packed with hundreds of migrants landed on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday, and officials said they were expecting numbers to increase as the weather improved.…

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Wave of migrant landings in Lampedusa

There has been a new wave of migrant landings in recent days in Lampedusa, where over 400 migrants have landed within a few hours. After a boat with 215 persons,…

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11 migrants die off Tunisia

At least 11 migrants from Africa died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Sunday, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a Tunisian…

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26 migrant-boat landings in 24 hours in Lampedusa

The southern Italian island of Lampedusa registered 26-migrant boats landings in 24 hours on Sunday. Twelve of those boats, carrying 263 asylum seekers, arrived in the evening. As a result,…

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Sicily Governor and Lampedusa Mayor to meet PM Conte re Migration

Sicily Governor Nello Musumeci and Lampedusa Mayor Toto' Martello will be received by Premier Giuseppe Conte in Rome on Wednesday, sources said Monday amid a migrant row. Musumeci's recent closure…

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Migrant situation in Lampedusa declared as emergency by mayor

The emergency migrant reception centre in Lampedusa has been declared closed by the mayor as there are a thousand people inside, a number ten times greater than the capacity foreseen…

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Migrants transferred from overcrowded hotspot Lampedusa to Palermo

A reported 43 migrants have been transferred from an overcrowded hotspot in Lampedusa to a hosting facility in Palermo, officials said Tuesday. The migrants on Monday night were taken by…

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Recovery of corpses from migrant shipwreck in Lampedusa

Photos showing divers of the Italian Coast Guard preparing to go down about 60 meters deep, six miles south of the coast of Lampedusa, to recover 13 corpses- 12 of…

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12 bodies found in shipwreck off Lampedusa

A handout video grab taken from underwater footage made by an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and released by the Italian Coast Guard (Guardia Costiera). The photo shows the wreckage of…

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Search continuing in Lampedusa for victims of latest tragedy

Italian authorities are continuing the search for the bodies of the persons that were on-board a boat that capsized earlier this week off the coast of Lampedusa. According to survivors,…

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UPDATED: Tragedy off the coast of Lampedusa after boat full of migrants capsizes

Update: The Italian Coast Guard and Italian finance police rescued 22 survivors and recovered the bodies of 13 people, all women, after a boat carrying about 50 migrants overturned Sunday night…

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UN refugee chief calls on EU to restore search-and-rescue operations.

On the sixth anniversary of a shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa that claimed at least 368 lives, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called on EU States to…

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71 migrants land in Lampedusa

71 migrants, including two women and a minor, landed, in the pouring rain, in Lampedusa, Italy on Wednesday evening. A Coast Guard patrol boat rescued them in the sea in…

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Italy finally assigns safe harbor to the Ocean Viking

Italy assigned Lampedusa as a safe harbor to 82 people rescued by the charity vessel Ocean Viking, the humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders said on Twitter, on Saturday. The vessel…

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Spanish warship en route to Lampedusa

A view of Lampedusa island coastline taken on board of Spanish Navy's vessel Audaz, as the ship prepares to arrive in the port of Lampedusa, Italy, 23 August 2019. The…

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Photo Story: Migrants at sea off Lampedusa

A handout photo made available by the Italian Coast Guard shows a migrant being rescued at sea after diving from the Open Arms ship off the coast of Lampedusa, southern…

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Spain makes new offer to Open Arms

Spain has made another offer to the Open Arms migrant rescue vessel situated off the coast of Italy to dock at the nearest Spanish port. It's after the boat with…

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European Commission says Open Arms situation untenable

Open Arms remains close to the Italian island of Lampedusa, but the future of 134 migrants aboard remains unclear. Only a handful of people could disembark for medical reasons. The…

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Four people disembark from the Open Arms in Lampedusa

Four migrants from the ship of the Spanish Open Arms NGO disembark for medical treatment, in the port of Lampedusa, Italy. Nine others on board were allowed to land the…

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Open Arms enters Italian waters outside Lampedusa

The Spanish humanitarian ship Open Arms entered Italian territorial waters off the Italian island of Lampedusa with 147 rescued migrants on board . It headed to the island after a…

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Richard Gere and Matteo Salvini clash over migrants

Hollywood star Richard Gere has called upon the Italian government to assist migrants who have been stranded on a Spanish charity boat in the Mediterranean for more than a week.…

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Boat carrying 48 persons arrives in Lampedusa

A boat carrying 48 migrants, including 27 women, three of whom are pregnant, and six minors, arrived on its own steam on the island of Lampedusa on Monday. According to…

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More migrants land in Lampedusa

More migrants have reached Lampedusa in the second landing in a few hours between Sunday and Monday. A small boat was intercepted about one mile from the coast with…

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Rescue ship Alan Kurdi on its way to Malta

A migrant rescue ship which was waiting outside Lampedusa is heading to Malta, hours after a separate vessel which defied Italy and entered port was denied permission to disembark its…

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‘Alex’ docks in Lampedusa despite ban

A charity boat carrying 41 rescued migrants has docked in an Italian port despite a ban on it doing so. The captain of the Alex decided to leave international waters…

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Rescue ship Alan Kurdi heading to Lampedusa

The German humanitarian group Sea-Eye has said one of its ships is on its way to the Italian port of Lampedusa with 65 rescued migrants on board and possibly another…

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Libya considering freeing all migrants, Italian coast guard saves 55 persons whilst others refused port of entry

Libya is weighing freeing all migrants from detention centres after the massacre at Tajoura detention centre after an airstrike on Tuesday evening. Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha said that Libyan authorities…

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SeaWatch enters in Lampedusa’s harbour, Captain arrested – Updated

The Sea-Watch 3 entered Lampedusa and the persons on board have disembarked in the harbour. The decision follows a 16 day standoff between the Italian government and the crew of…

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Sea Watch ignores orders to stop, anchors in front of Lampedusa

The Sea-Watch 3 migrant-rescue ship on Wednesday defied an order from a tax police motor launch to stop and pressed on until it came close to the port of…

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Italy lets 10 stranded migrants disembark, moves to ban rescue ships from its waters

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini allowed 10 of the 53 migrants stranded on the Sea-Watch 3 rescue ship to disembark but pressed ahead with plans to ban such boats…

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UPDATED: 50 persons saved and heading to Pozallo

50 persons were saved as they were trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach reach the European coast. According to Alarm Phone, the group was saved by the commercial…

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Salvini warns that migrants taken to Lampedusa will be expelled

Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini warned that 90 migrants who were taken to Lampedusa after the boat they were travelling on was intercepted, will be expelled…

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Rescue vessel with 64 persons on board heading to Malta’s waters

Alan Kurdi, the humanitarian vessel with 64 migrants on board is heading to Malta after it was rebuffed by Italy in what appears to be another migrant saga in the…

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‘Sea Eye’ ship heads for Lampedusa

The ship ‘Alan Kurdi’ belonging to German migrant rescue NGO Sea Eye is heading for the Italian island of Lampedusa with its 64 rescued migrants among them a new…

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Salvini announces that migrants have hijacked cargo ship and is directed towards Malta or Lampedusa – Updated

UPDATE: The Armed Forces of Malta established communications with the Captain of Motor Tanker ELHIBRU 1 when it was about 30NM away and still proceeding towards Malta. The Captain repeatedly…

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Migrants on board the ‘Mare Ionio’ to disembark at Lampedusa

The 49 migrants on board the Italian NGO rescue ship 'Mare Ionio' will be disembarking at Lampedusa on the orders of Guardia di Finanza. The 'Mare Ionio' was embroiled…

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