Despite protest from UN, Italy resumes deporting immigrants
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ROME -- Italy resumed the forced deportation of immigrants to Libya yesterday and denied the United Nations' refugee agency access to the would-be asylum seekers.
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More than 100 undocumented asylum seekers claiming to be Palestinians rest after being rescued by the Italian Coast Guard off Sicily 21 August 2004 in the harbour of the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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ITALY has begun airlifting migrants back to their point of departure after its southern outpost was swamped by hundreds of new arrivals.
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About 400 more illegal immigrants flocked onto the Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday, bringing to more than 800 the number of boat-people landing on the tiny Mediterranean outpost in a 24-hour period, a ...
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The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa is at the centre of the controversial expulsion of immigrants by Italian officials, reports the BBC's Mike Donkin.
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Banners and flags are seen during a demonstration in Vicenza. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Vicenza, Italy, to protest the planned expansion of a US military base here, a divisive ...Comment
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Despite widespread unease over immigration in the industrialized world, migrants do not significantly drive down wages or employment rates in the countries they move to, the United Nations reported on Monday.
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The UN says more than a million displaced Bosnians have now returned home - but major obstacles remain.
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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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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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ROME: Italy has defended as an &quot;emergency measure&quot; its draconian new policy of airlifting illegal immigrants straight back to Libya the moment they set foot on Italian soil.
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Italy resumed repatriating illegal immigrants to Libya on Wednesday as Premier Silvio Berlusconi prepared to travel to the North African country for talks with leader Moammar Gadhafi.
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ROME - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees is calling for authorization to monitor the forced removal of asylum seekers from Italy to Libya.
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Italy's small Muslim community took part in demonstrations around the country on Saturday to add its voice to a chorus of calls for the release of two Italian female aid workers abducted in Iraq last week.
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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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VICENZA, Italy  - Tens of thousands of Italians under heavy police guard marched through the city of Vicenza on Saturday to protest at the expansion of a U.S. military base that has divided the center-left government.
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Italy is urging Libya to tackle the swelling flow of illegal migrants as hundreds more land on Italian shores.