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Mediterranean sinking: Hundreds of migrants feared dead near Lampedusa

A boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea killing hundreds of people, the Italian coastguard says.…

10 years ago

More than 200 migrants killed in Mediterranean sinking

At least two hundreds migrants are dead after the motorboats they were travelling on sank in the Mediterranean Sea, the…

10 years ago

Italy rescues 1,123 migrants off Lampedusa

1,123 migrants from North Africa have been rescued by Italian navy from inflatable boats in the space of 24 hours.…

11 years ago

More than 300 migrants rescued off Italian and Greek coasts

Italian and Greek coast guards saved more than 300 migrants from rough waters in two separate incidents. The Italian navy…

11 years ago

Sicily declares state of emergency amid Lampedusa migrant crisis

A state of emergency has been declared in Sicily because of the large numbers of African migrants it has to…

11 years ago

New migrant boat capsizes off Lampedusa

A second migrant boat with more than 200 people on board has capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa and…

11 years ago

Italy: State funeral for Lampedusa shipwreck migrants

Italy has decided to hold a state funeral for the hundreds of migrants who died after their boat capsized close…

11 years ago

Lampedusa boat-wreck death toll rises to 232

Dozens more bodies have been recovered from the boat carrying African migrants that capsized close to the Sicilian island of…

11 years ago

Italy: Row over Lampedusa migrant boat deaths

Italian coast guard has denied that it was slow to respond to the sinking of a boat carrying African migrants…

11 years ago

Lampedusa boat sinking: At least 130 African migrants die and many more missing

At least 130 migrants have died and many more are missing after a boat carrying them to Europe sank off…

11 years ago

Migrants boat sinks off near Lampedusa killing 50 people

At least 50 people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off near Lampedusa, southern Italy, reports say. Rescue…

11 years ago

Pope Francis visits Lampedusa island

Pope Francis has visited Italy's tiny island of Lampedusa and condemned the "global indifference" to migrants’ plight during a Mass.…

11 years ago