Italy defends fast-track deportation of migrants
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Italy has defended a tough new policy on illegal immigrants, which has put hundreds of new arrivals from sub-Saharan Africa on planes back to Libya without granting them the opportunity to apply for asylum.
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LONDON : Italy&#39;s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has slammed the refusal by European lawmakers to endorse Italy&#39;s candidate for justice commissioner because of his views on gays as an attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his centre
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Italy promised on Saturday that a group of Kurdish stowaways would get a chance to apply for asylum after reportedly being denied that right two weeks ago, the U.N. refugee agency said.
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Illegal immigrants in Italy earning a few coins by washing windscreens at traffic lights could face up to three months in jail after Florence launched a crackdown and other cities said they might follow suit.
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ROME, Oct 5 (IPS) - UN officials have been denied permission to check  the safety of about 850 migrants deported to Libya from Italy  since Friday.
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TRIPOLI, Libya Libya said Thursday that it had sent 1,000 Egyptian immigrants home after their expulsion from Italy. Italy airlifted illegal immigrants to Libya this week in an effort to deter would-be asylum
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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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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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Italy dismisses claims that two female aid workers held hostage in Iraq have been killed.
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Italy has come under fire for sending would-be asylum seekers back to Libya without granting them time to apply for refugee status.
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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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ROME, Sept 23  - Italy sought on Thursday to play down the credibility of two claims about the murder of two Italian aid workers, both young women, taken hostage in Iraq but failed to ease gnawing anguish over their fate.
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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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The Italian government on Wednesday sped up parliamentary approval of a law that could overturn the corruption convictions of a close friend of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, sparking fury among opposition politicians.
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Sir Trevor Brooking defends the speed of Italian Fabio Capello's appointment as England manager.
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The government defended Wednesday an "experiment" under which two prisons have been converted into foreigner-only jails, saying they could help speed up deportation procedures.
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Italy is urging Libya to tackle the swelling flow of illegal migrants as hundreds more land on Italian shores.