Nearly 800 refugees in 3 boats swamp Italy
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Palermo, Sicily Almost 800 illegal immigrants arrived in southern Italy aboard only three boats Sunday in one of the largest influxes of refugees that Italy has seen in a single day.
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Evacuate 800 persone, gravemente ustionati i pompieri
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Around 400 illegal immigrants flocked onto the Italian island of Lampedusa, bringing to more than 800 the number of boat-people landing on the tiny Mediterranean outpost in a 24-hour period, a coastguard official said.
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More migrants arrive on Italy's Lampedusa island as PM Berlusconi prepares for migration talks in Libya.
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UN officials have been denied permission to check the safety of about 850 migrants deported to Libya from Italy since Friday. The Italian government is flying the migrants to Libya after hundreds landed on
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Around 400 illegal immigrants flocked onto the Italian island of Lampedusa, bringing to more than 800 the number of boat-people landing on the tiny Mediterranean outpost in a 24-hour period, a coastguard ...
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Near death after days at sea, the African illegal immigrants had made it to Europe, but were too weak to step down the ship's gangplank. The scene last week was appalling but familiar &#151; more emaciated arrivals among the thousands risking death to reach Italy's lengthy coastline and, from there, prosperity in Europe.
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A five-ship Italian fleet set off for Lebanon on Tuesday carrying more than 800 soldiers bound for U.N. peacekeeping duties.
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1,324 refugees enter U.S. over four months in program to bring in 12,000 by Sept. 30th.
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Polish police join the hunt for more than 100 Polish migrants feared to have been criminally abused in southern Italy.
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A boat carrying would-be immigrants to Italy capsized in the Mediterranean, killing at least 22 people and leaving dozens more missing.
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At least 15 migrants drowned in the waters off the Italian coast in two separate incidents, including the disintegration of a boat that spilled more than 100 passengers into rough seas, reports said Sunday.
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Italy has begun airlifting migrants back to their point of departure after facilities on its southern outpost were swamped by hundreds of new arrivals.
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Italy is urging Libya to tackle the swelling flow of illegal migrants as hundreds more land on Italian shores.
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Oltre un milione di evacuati in diverse regioni
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Human rights groups accused the Greek Coast Guard on Monday of systematically trying to swamp the boats of refugees heading for Europe. Greece denied the allegations.
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Boats have become a necessary means of transport in the flooded streets of Quxian, north-east of Sichuan province. Picture:Reuters.