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EU’s von der Leyen announces plan to address migrant crisis during Lampedusa visit

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged the swift return of irregular migrants and a crackdown on the “brutal business” of migrant smuggling Sunday during a visit with Italy's premier to a tiny fishing island overwhelmed with nearly 7,000 arrivals in a single day this week.

France 24

Bus with migrants crashes as Italy transfers new arrivals to relieve pressure on Lampedusa island

A bus reportedly transporting recently arrived migrants has slammed into a truck north of Rome, killing the two drivers

The Independent UK

Germany halts deal to take in migrants arriving from Italy as numbers surge

The German government said it has stopped taking in migrants from Italy under a European voluntary solidarity plan, in what could shape up to be a new standoff over asylum seekers in the bloc. This comes as the Italian island of Lampedusa receives a record number of new arrivals.

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Tiny Italian island coping with thousands of migrants who arrived in a short span

A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa is overwhelmed as it copes with transferring to the mainland thousands of migrants who arrived on small, unseaworthy boats in a 24-hour span this week

The Independent UK

‘You have to do it’: Refugees in Tunisia undeterred by Lampedusa shipwreck

Despite deaths at sea, refugees in the port of Sfax are still adamant about trying to reach Europe by boat.

Al Jazeera

Forty-one migrants die in shipwreck off Italy

Four survivors have reportedly told the Italian Coast Guard that three children were on board

Evening Standard

At least two killed, dozens missing in shipwrecks off Italy’s coast

Italian coastguard says it has recovered two bodies and rescued 57 people after two boats sink off island of Lampedusa.

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Italy rescues around 1,600 migrants in Mediterranean in last two days

Italy has rescued 47 boats carrying around 1,600 migrants in the central Mediterranean sea in the last two days and brought them ashore to the island of Lampedusa.

Reuters

Over 1,000 migrants reach Italian isle; 23 reported missing

Some 1,200 migrants have arrived since Sunday on a tiny Italian island

The Independent UK

2 people are dead, 20 missing, as a migrant boat sinks off the coast of Tunisia

The boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy. About 25 people were rescued. Thousands of migrants have reached Italy's tiny Lampedusa island in the past few days.

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‘A portrait of defeat’: inside a revealing film about Pope Francis

Gianfranco Rosi’s intimate new documentary In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis follows the pontiff as he confronts contentious issues around the world

The Guardian - US

More boats sink off Tunisia’s coast, killing 29 asylum seekers

Latest deaths come as Italian media report that a record 2,000 refugees had arrived in Lampedusa within 24 hours.

Al Jazeera

Ten migrants die off Lampedusa coast, including baby and three women

Ten migrants, including a baby and three women, have died on a particularly harrowing crossing from Tunisia to Italy, the Italian coastguard said on Friday.

Reuters

Workable proposals? No, western immigration policy is a theatre of cruelty

Another week and more drownings in the Channel. Politicians’ words of regret are hypocritical: they chose not to prevent them

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Italy set to take in over 500 migrants from rescue boats

Italy agreed on Friday to take in over 500 migrants from two rescue ships at sea off its coast after another vessel carrying 33 migrants had docked overnight on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.

The Guardian - UK

Girl, 4, forced to sail from Tunisia to Sicily on migrant boat without parents

Girl became separated from parents and disembarked on island of Lampedusa after 26 hours at sea

The Guardian - UK

Italy’s far right turns Lampedusa’s refugee crisis to its advantage

The tiny island, once famed for its welcoming approach to those risking their lives in the Mediterranean, is centre stage as elections approach

The Independent UK

Italy's Salvini puts focus on migration ahead of Sept. vote

Italy’s former firebrand interior minister, Matteo Salvini, is campaigning to get his old job back

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Al Jazeera

Italy relocates refugees after Lampedusa centre overwhelmed

Navy begins transferring the first of 600 migrants and refugees from Lampedusa amid a sharp uptick in new arrivals.

The Independent UK

At least seven migrants die on boat bound for Italian island of Lampedusa

Italy is seeing a huge increase in migrant boats heading for its shores

Asharq Al-Awsat

Several Bangladeshi Migrants on Boat to Lampedusa Die of Hypothermia

Seven Bangladeshi migrants who were on a boat from Libya heading for the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa have died of hypothermia, Agrigento Prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio said in a statement on Tuesday. The coastguard saw the boat overnight some 18 miles (29 kilometers) off the coast of Lampione, an uninhabited island…

The Independent UK

Italian Coast Guard reports 7 dead in migrant crossing

Seven migrants have died and some 280 have been rescued by the Italian Coast Guard after they were discovered in a packed wooden boat off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa

Reuters

At least 7 migrants on boat bound for Lampedusa die of hypothermia

At least seven migrants who were on a boat heading for the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa have died of hypothermia, Italy's ANSA news agency reported on Tuesday.

Reuters

Italy rescues more than 300 migrants from boat in distress

The Italian coastguard rescued 305 migrants who were trying to reach Europe aboard an overloaded boat that ran into difficulty off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, a statement said on Friday.

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