A migrant reception center on Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa is trying to cope with thousands ... Italy saw the highest number of sea arrivals in 2016, when some 181,400 migrants ...

Island sees 7,000 migrants arrive in 48 hours Lampedusa has population of just over 6,000 Arrivals to Spain's Canary Islands more than treble LAMPEDUSA, Italy, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The small ...

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.

The migrants arriving now outnumber the entire population of Lampedusa. LONDON -- Tensions are rising quickly in Lampedusa -- a small Italian island located off the coast of Sicily -- after local ...

Italy's Lampedusa island struggles with migration crisis Some 12,000 migrants — more than twice the population of this island — arrived in a single week this month. Islanders showed compassion ...

Thousand of migrants reached the Italian island of Lampedusa on more than 100 boats this week. Experts say bad weather created a bottleneck resulting in the spike of arrivals from Tunisia.

ROME — A bus reportedly transporting recently arrived migrants slammed into a truck north of Rome early Friday, killing the two drivers, as Italy accelerated the transfers of migrants north to ...

Migrants wait to be transferred from Lampedusa Island, Italy, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Lampedusa, which is closer to Africa than the Italian mainland, has been overwhelmed this week by thousands of ...

One woman died, two people were feared missing and 87 were rescued following a migrant shipwreck off the Italian island of ...

Migrants arriving in Italy face extreme challenges to meet their basic needs after leaving reception centres, ... on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy, September 16, 2023.

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.

The Italian Red Cross said some 700 new arrivals had been transferred off Lampedusa on Thursday and 2,500 more transfers were planned for Friday to try to relieve pressure on the island’s ...