Tag: Italy
Rescuers pull 1,725 migrants to safety from the Mediterranean
Rescuers pulled 1,725 migrants to safety from boats in the Mediterranean on Thursday, Italy's coast guard said, as seaborne arrivals to Europe's...
Calm seas and Libya’s lawless state open doors for migrant flows
Calmer seas and Libya's lawlessness have again opened the way for smugglers to ship thousands of migrants across the Mediterranean in days,...
Over six thousand migrants rescued from Mediterranean
Some 6,500 migrants were saved off the Libyan coast in 40 separate rescue missions on Monday, the Italian coast guard said on...
Five migrant bodies recovered, 534 rescued in Mediterranean
The bodies of five migrants were recovered and 534 others were saved on Thursday following an array of rescue operations in the...
Migrants tell of horrors or voyage in Italian media campaign
Italy launched an internet, TV and radio campaign on Thursday to discourage Africans from setting out on the often deadly voyage to...
Italy jails three Nigerian mafia ‘subjects’ of Cosa Nostra clan
An Italian court has jailed three members of a Nigerian crime gang in Palermo, Sicily, sentencing them to at least a decade...
Italian arrested in suspected racist killing of Nigerian migrant
Italian police arrested a man on Thursday suspected of killing a Nigerian refugee in a racist attack that has shocked Italy, further...
Italy recovers 217 bodies from hull of 2015 migrant shipwreck
Italian emergency workers have recovered 217 bodies from the wreck of a boat that sank in the Mediterranean in April 2015, killing...
Egypt considers retaliating for Italy’s decision to cut military supplies
Egypt said on Wednesday it was considering retaliating against Italy for halting military supplies to protest the killing of an Italian student...
taly rescues 4,500 migrants in Mediterranean in one day, coast guard...
Some 4,500 migrants were rescued from rubber dinghies and a wooden boat in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, Italy's coast guard said, as...
Italian police smash suspected people smuggling ring
Italian police on Monday arrested 25 Eritreans, 12 Ethiopians and an Italian who they said belonged to an organisation that had smuggled...
Italy rescues more than three thousand migrants over weekend
Italian coastguard and navy ships rescued over 3 300 migrants in 26 separate operations in the Mediterranean over the weekend, a spokesperson...
Italy’s coastguard says 1,230 migrants rescued on Sunday
Italy's coastguard said on Sunday a total of 1,230 migrants had been picked up in nine rescue operations in the waters between...
3,000 migrants rescued off Italian coast; 2 bodies found
More than 3,000 boat migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean over the past two days and two bodies have been recovered,...
Sudan extradites to Italy suspected people smuggler
Sudan has extradited to Italy an Eritrean national suspected of being a kingpin in an organised-crime network responsible for bringing thousands of...
Italy arrests 16 suspected boat migrant traffickers
Italian police have arrested 16 people suspected of trafficking migrants across the Mediterranean from Libya after a week in which thousands were...
Italy seeks 18 years for alleged captain in migrants shipwreck
Italian prosecutors on Tuesday demanded that the man they say captained a migrant boat that sank killing up to 800 people be...
Italy, Libya discuss investment in return for migration control
Italy and Libya discussed on Tuesday renewing a 2008 accord under which Italy pledged billions of dollars in investments in return for...
Italian coastguard rescues 801 boat migrants, many from Syria
Italy's coastguard said it helped rescue 801 migrants from two boats off western Sicily on Thursday, including many Syrians, amid signs that...
Italy rescues nearly 1,800 migrants in Mediterranean
Italian vessels have helped rescue nearly 1,800 migrants from boats trying to reach Italy from north Africa in the last 24 hours,...
More than 100 migrants die in Libya to Italy weekend shipwrecks
An estimated 113 people died in four shipwrecks between Libya and Italy at the weekend as the crossing becomes the preferred sea...
Italian marine Salvatore Girone can return home – India
Italian marine Salvatore Girone, one of two sailors under investigation over the killing of two Indian fishermen during an anti-piracy mission in...
Decriminalising cannabis would hurt Islamic State, mafia: Italy prosecutor
Decriminalising cannabis sales would strike a blow against Islamic State militants and Italian mobsters who, according to ongoing investigations, are smuggling hashish...
France, Italy, Spain call for broader EU naval mission in Libya
France, Italy and Spain urged their European partners on Monday to move the EU's Mediterranean naval mission into Libyan waters, if requested...
Italian foreign minister meets new leaders in Libya
Italy's foreign minister flew into Tripoli on Tuesday for talks with the head of the unity government Fayez Seraj - the first...
Italy recalls ambassador from Egypt in row over student’s murder
Italy recalled its ambassador to Egypt for consultations on Friday after Egyptian investigators in Rome failed to provide evidence needed to solve...
Italian shipyard launches Algerian mine countermeasures vessel
Italian shipyard Intermarine has launched a new mine countermeasures vessel (MCMV) for the Algerian Navy. The coastal minehunter was launched on 5...
Hundreds of migrants arrive in Italy on boat from Egypt
Italy's coast guard said on Thursday it had rescued more than 300 migrants from a packed boat in which they had travelled...
Italy rescues nearly 1,400 migrants in southern Mediterranean
Italian coast guard and navy vessels rescued nearly 1,400 migrants from boats and rubber dinghies in the southern Mediterranean on Tuesday, officials...
Italy rescues 910 boat migrants, nearly 600 saved off Libya
Italy's coast guard said more than 900 migrants were rescued in four separate operations in the Strait of Sicily on Saturday, while...
Italy rescues 2,400 boat migrants, finds three corpses
More than 2,400 migrants have been rescued from boats in the Strait of Sicily in the last two days and emergency services...
Libya military intervention may worsen situation: Italy minister
Italy warned on Wednesday that Western military intervention in Libya could worsen an already volatile situation in which some 5,000 Islamic State...
Freed Italian hostages flown home from Libya
Two Italian hostages freed in Libya after two fellow captives were allegedly killed by Islamic State militants were flown back to Italy...
Two Italian civilians possibly killed in Libya attack: Italy
Two Italian civilians held hostage in Libya might have died in a gun battle in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, the...
Two Italian civilians possibly killed in Libya attack: Italy
Two Italian civilians held hostage in Libya might have died in a gun battle in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, the...
Italy navy recovers six bodies, rescues 290 from migrant boats
Italy's navy rescued 290 migrants and recovered six bodies from the water near a half-sunken rubber boat on Thursday, the first sea...
Italy says West prepared to take on Islamic State in Libya
Western powers are prepared to fight Islamic State in Libya even if the North African country fails to agree on a unified...
More than 1,200 boat migrants rescued off Libya on Tuesday: Italian...
Italy's coast guard said on Tuesday it had coordinated the rescue of 1,271 migrants from rubber and wooden boats in several operations...
More than 1,200 boat migrants rescued off Libya on Tuesday: Italian...
Italy's coast guard said on Tuesday it had coordinated the rescue of 1,271 migrants from rubber and wooden boats in several operations...
Italy evacuates 15 Libyans wounded in bomb attack
Italy evacuated 15 Libyans on Monday for medical treatment after they were wounded in last week's truck bomb attack against a police...
Italy rules out joining Syria airstrikes, says another strategy needed
Italy has no intention of joining a U.S.-led coalition that is attacking Islamic State targets in Syria, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi...
Italy expels four Moroccan suspected jihadists
Italy said on Monday it is expelling four Bologna-based Moroccans suspected of promoting jihadism, days after raising its security alert level following...
Libya accuses Italian navy of violating waters
Libya's elected government has accused the Italian navy of violating the country's territorial waters after authorities said they spotted three Italian warships...
Italian navy rescues 4,400 migrants off Libya coast
The Italian navy organised the rescue of around 4,400 migrants in waters off the Libyan coast on Saturday, prompted by requests for...
Italy police arrest Libyan, Algerian traffickers over migrant shipwreck deaths
Italy arrested three Libyans and two Algerians on Friday accused of multiple homicide and human trafficking in connection with the presumed death...
Italian coast guard rescues 414 boat migrants including four newborns
Three Italian ships rescued 414 migrants from four boats in the Mediterranean sea on Tuesday, Italy's coast guard said, with four newborns...
Four Italians kidnapped in Libya: Italy foreign ministry
Four Italian citizens have been kidnapped Libya, the Italian foreign ministry said on Monday.
The four employees of construction company Bonatti were kidnapped...
Italy arrests people traffickers after girl dies on boat crossing
Italy arrested three Egyptian men who are suspected to have piloted a boat carrying more than 300 migrants to Italy from Egypt,...
First victims of deadliest migrant shipwreck given funeral in Italy
Italy held a funeral service on Tuesday for 13 migrants who died in the worst shipwreck in the Mediterranean in recent history,...
Tunisian trafficker jailed for 18 years
An Italian court on Wednesday found a Tunisian man guilty of trafficking migrants and sentenced him to 18 years in jail for...