The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa should be a holiday paradise. The most southerly territory of Italy lies exactly between that country and North Africa. With a population of around 6,000 ...

Lampedusa has seen an influx of migrants with 7,000 people arriving in two days, prompting its mayor and the United Nations refugee agency to warn the Italian island is becoming overwhelmed.

LAMPEDUSA, Italy — The small harbor in Lampedusa is crowded with a fleet of dilapidated wooden and metal smuggler's boats, some half-submerged. Discarded life jackets, filthy clothes and plastic ...

In this globalized world, we have fallen into the globalization of indifference. We have become used to the suffering of ...

ROME (Reuters) -One woman died, two people were feared missing and 87 were rescued following a migrant shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, a U.N. migration agency official said on Monday.

Lampedusa, Italy – More than 2,000 people and 289 children have died in 2023 trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of safety and a future in Europe. Many of those who survive the ...

On Lampedusa, there's sympathy for migrants — as long as they don't stay. Some 12,000 migrants — more than twice the population of this island — arrived in a single week this month.

German MEP Carola Rackete, who became famous for a public spat over migration with Italy’s far-right chief Matteo Salvini, ...

We need people and aid," said Lampedusa Mayor Filippo Mannino. Migrants queue as they wait to be transferred to the main land, on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy, Sept. 14, 2023.

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 15 - A reported 48 migrants landed at dawn on Tuesday on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where on Monday 23 landings were registered for a total of 960 people. Early on ...

From Ellis Island to Lampedusa, from Seoul to Senegal, filmmakers have used cinema to chart the hopes, heartbreak and quiet ...