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 island of Lampedusa is one of the main arrival points for people wanting to reach Europe More than 1,000 migrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa in the space of a few hours on ...

Hundreds of migrants crammed onto a decrepit fishing boat were rescued off the island of Lampedusa, Italy Italian coastguard vessels have rescued 539 migrants from a fishing boat drifting off the ...

Italy's coastguard said on Sunday two migrants had died after being rescued off Sicily's eastern coast along with over 30 others.

At least 13 people died when an overloaded migrant boat capsized near the island of Lampedusa as they were about to be rescued, the Italian coast guard has said. Twenty-two people were rescued ...

Forty-one migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, survivors told local media. A group of four people who survived the disaster ...

The Emperor Augustus swapped it for Capri with the rulers of Neapolis (as Naples was then known), turning the smaller island ...

The Sicilian channel, near the Italian island of Lampedusa, is the only location in the Atlantic region where both pregnant females and newly born great whites have been sighted. But what makes ...

Rescue workers found 10 bodies of suspected migrants below the deck of a wooden boat off Italy’s tiny Lampedusa island on Monday, the German aid group Resqship said, as the Italian coast guard ...

Coldiretti estimated that the drought could reduce production on the island by as much as 70% ... In late July, the first Italian navy tanker ship docked in Licata to supply 12 million liters ...

Agrigento, set on a hill on the Italian island of Sicily, has been forced to reject tourists. Alamy Stock Photo The city, which was named the Italian Capital of Culture for 2025, is now unable to ...