Italy, Tunisia navies block migrant vessel
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An Italian warship has intercepted a vessel full of migrants in international waters south of Lampedusa and summoned the Tunisian navy to escort it back to the North African coast, Italy's ANSA news agency ...
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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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European justice and interior ministers were reluctant to answer Spanish appeals for more aid Thursday to help it and other Mediterranean members of the EU stem the flow of illegal migrants from Africa.
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Italy resumed the forced deportation of immigrants to Libya yesterday and denied the United Nations&#39; refugee agency access to the would-be asylum seekers.
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A boat sailing to Italy sinks off Tunisia killing at least 17, as a row grows over Rome's moves to send migrants back.
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Arriveranno nel pomeriggio in Sicilia, nel porto di Augusta, i 13 turchi di etnia curda che hanno chiesto asilo bloccati a bordo di una nave mercantile al largo di Malta dal 15 ottobre. L&#39;Italia Ã¨ il paese
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Others were spotted heading from Libya to Lampedusa in a rubber dinghy, according to an Italian coastguard quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
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Italy's highest court has blocked the extradition to Morocco of a Moroccan cleric suspected of involvement in the 2003 Casablanca bombings, Italian news agency ANSA reported on Thursday.
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ROME, September 29 (Online): Pakistan and Italy has agreed to block the expansion of permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to ensure equality of nations in the world body.
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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.
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The United Nations refugee agency chastised Italy on Friday for denying a group of Turkish Kurds the right to an asylum hearing and forcing them back onto a Mediterranean freighter, where they've been stuck for two weeks.
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French fishermen agreed to lift their blockades at the Mediterranean ports of Marseille and Toulon on Tuesday, allowing oil tankers, freight vessels, passenger ships and cruise liners to resume sailing.
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Croatia is unable to control its fishing protection zone in the Adriatic Sea because it has no vessels to patrol maritime borders with Italy and Slovenia. via Daily India
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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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The Tunisian coastguard has found the bodies of 17 migrants who drowned after a boat carrying them to Italy sank off the Tunisian coast, government officials say.
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With hundreds crossing the Mediterranean, European leaders have been sparring over a plan to stem the flow of asylum seekers.
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Summer has brought an expected influx of boat people from north African shores to Italy&#39;s southernmost island of Lampedusa, but they are still overwhelming immigration facilities with their sheer numbers, officials say.