Italian island holds 240 migrants
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A 15-metre long wooden vessel containing some 240 migrants docks at the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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Italian police arrest 14 people suspected of smuggling thousands of illegal immigrants from north Africa.
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Libya said today it had deported 1,000 Egyptian migrants back home after their controversial expulsion from Italy. Italy airlifted illegal immigrants to Libya this week in a bid to deter would-be asylum seekers
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LAMPEDUSA, Italy - The barbed wire has gone and the dormitories look basic but reasonably clean. Welcome to the new-look camp for immigrants on the island of Lampedusa.
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ROME - Almost 1,000 illegal immigrants have arrived at a southern Italian island over the weekend. Most are believed to be from North Africa.
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Libya claimed to have repatriated up to 40,000 illegal immigrants and arrested several people traffickers as the Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi arrived in the capital Tripoli yesterday
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The Spanish authorities detain 176 illegal immigrants who tried to reach the Canary Islands by ship.
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Over 650 illegal immigrants, most thought to be African, arrive on tiny Lampedusa in a single weekend.
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Un gommone con 14 clandestini Ã¨ stato soccorso a 35 miglia a sud di Lampedusa. Gli immigrati, in precarie condizioni di salute, come ha riferito la Capitaneria di porto di Palermo, sono stati trasferiti su
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LAMPEDUSA - Ancora arrivi di clandestini a Lampedusa. Oltre 300 migranti sono approdati tra mercoledÃ¬ notte e giovedÃ¬ mattina nell&#39;isola siciliana in due riprese. I primi 188, tutti uomini di origine africana
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Un barcone con 241 clandestini a bordo Ã¨ stato intercettato all&#39;alba da una nave della Marina militare 9 miglia a sud di Lampedusa. L&#39;imbarcazione Ã¨ stata rimorchiata in porto da una motovedetta della guardia costiera.
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"If they don't give us a new school, I'll bring all the kids into the immigrants' camp and teach them there"  By Silvia AloisiLAMPEDUSA, Italy - The barbed wire has gone and the dormitories look basic but reasonably clean. Welcome to the new-look camp for immigrants on the island of Lampedusa.Two years ago the island, a major transit point for thousands of boat people seeking a better life in Europe, drew scathing criticism for the squalor and abuse of its overcrowded camp.That has now been revamped and will soon be replaced by a more spacious, air-conditioned site as Italy pledges a more humane approach in its fight against illegal immigration. Read more
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Defying criticism by human rights groups, Italy on Tuesday prepared to return to Libya hundreds of illegal immigrants who have landed on its southern shores in the past days.
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Italy planned to send back more illegal immigrants Monday, after hundreds of people arrived over the weekend on a tiny island off the coast of Sicily, news reports said.
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PADUA, Italy, Aug 27 (IPS) - Mid-August, a normal week in Lampedusa, a small  Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. In all, 439 illegal  migrants, including a 15-day old baby, arrived from North Africa  in old motorboats. The same week, 20 bodies were found off the  coast, victims of earlier shipwrecks.
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Roma, 27 ottobre 2004 - Sono a quota 2,6 milioni gli immigrati nel 2003, pari al 4,5% della popolazione residente, con un incremento di circa 700 unitÃ  per l&#39;esattezza 658.675 sul 2002. E su 6 milioni di
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Politics: 14 January 2005, Friday. A bus with 30 Bulgarians has been kept on an Italian border checkpoint for four days, as local customs authorities wanted them an Italian-signed guarantee.