Lampedusa
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…