Italy Sends Migrants Back to Africa As Obtaining Asylum May Get ...
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Hundreds of migrants from Africa in rickety boats have landed in the last few days on Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island, and the Italian government is responding quickly
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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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Saying it has been overwhelmed by a sudden influx of illegal immigrants sailing across the Mediterranean, Italy has begun deporting hundreds of newly arrived people to Libya despite widespread condemnation of ...
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Italy is defending a tough new policy on illegal immigrants, which has put hundreds of new arrivals from sub-Saharan Africa on planes back to Libya without the opportunity to apply for asylum.
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ELEANOR HALL: Foreign aid workers are reportedly leaving the country after two Italian aid workers were captured by insurgents in Baghdad yesterday.
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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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The flight of a convicted killer enjoying asylum in France has frustrated Italy's efforts to bring ex-guerrillas to justice and reopened wounds from an era when the Red Brigades terrorized the country.
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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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Following a wave of criticism from opposition parties and human rights organisations, Italy has stopped its wholesale deportation from Lampedusa of more than 1,300 refugees to Libya, where Italy believes they have come from.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is aiming to make cooperation with Libya a model for Europe's efforts to stem a tide of illegal immigration from Africa, but further talks are still needed between Tripoli, Rome and the EU to resolve the crisis.
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Two boats carrying would-be migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe sank Wednesday between Italy and Libya, leaving five people dead, including a child, Italian officials said. Eleven others were missing and presumed dead.
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Sudan has agreed to consider the asylum  claims of 76 Eritreans who forced a Libyan plane to land in  Sudan because they feared returning home, a U.N. official said  Saturday.  Libya had denied the Eritreans refugee status.
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African migrants whose small boat was intercepted Saturday off the coast of Sicily said eight people died during their grueling, 10-day trip, the third deadly sea journey by migrants trying to reach Italy in less than a month.
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Bodies of African migrants wash up on the beaches and those who survive the ocean voyage complain of discrimination and police harassment. This is not Italy or Spain, but the small central African country of Gabon.
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Italian police have apprehended more than 650 illegal immigrants in southern Italy in what is reported to be one of the largest daily influxes of third world migrants.
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A lonely pensioner who turned to Italy&#39;s classified pages to find someone willing to &quot;adopt&quot; him as a grandfather is finally heading to his new home and family in northern Italy this weekend.
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Italy's Interior Minister visits Libya to pave the way for joint efforts to curb illegal immigration into the EU.