7,000 people arrive on Italian island of 6,000 as migrant crisis overwhelms Lampedusa By Barbie Latza Nadeau , Chris Liakos , Claudia Colliva and Sharon Braithwaite , CNN 4 minute read ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is calling for an EU naval blockade to stem the continent's migrant crisis, something one expert believes is the only option.

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 ...

Sir Keir Starmer is to fly to Italy this weekend to see how Giorgia Meloni’s government has more than halved the number of illegal migrant crossings this year. The Italian government said Sir ...

Italy’s cabinet approved a decree that lets almost 500,000 documented immigrants enter the country in the next three years.

French president Emmanuel Macron expressed his desire to support Italy in the face of migrant crisis as the number of illegal immigrants arriving in Italy rises. A sharp rise in the number of migrant ...

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7,000 people arrive on Italian island of 6,000 as migrant crisis overwhelms Lampedusa By Barbie Latza Nadeau , Chris Liakos , Claudia Colliva and Sharon Braithwaite , CNN 4 minute read ...

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Chris Liakos, Claudia Colliva and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Lampedusa has seen an influx of migrants with 7,000 people arriving in two days, prompting its mayor and ...

Mayor Filippo Mannino on Thursday said the migrant crisis had reached a “point of no return.” “In the past 48 hours, around 7,000 people have arrived on my island, an island that has always ...