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27 Dead After Italy Migrant Shipwreck, Search Ops Underway
Italian authorities resumed their search Thursday for migrants missing at sea after two boats sank off the island of Lampedusa, with 27 people already confirmed dead.
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UK PM Starmer Meets Italy PM Meloni To Discuss Illegal Immigration
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Monday to discuss tackling illegal immigration, a day after another Channel migrant shipwreck claimed eight lives.
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41 Dead In Migrant Shipwreck Off Italy's Lampedusa Island: Report
Forty-one migrants died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean, the Ansa news agency reported on Wednesday, citing accounts from survivors who have just reached the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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At Least 30 Migrants Missing After 2 Shipwrecks Off Italian Island: Report
At least 30 migrants are missing following two shipwrecks off the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to survivor testimony, the UN's migration agency said Sunday.
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"Unable To Save Them": Fisherman Mourns After Italian Migrant Shipwreck
It was a Sunday that Italian fisherman Vincenzo Luciano will never forget. Well before dawn he ran to the beach near his house and started pulling bodies from the sea, victims of a deadly migrant shipwreck that has so far claimed 67 lives.
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"A Gruesome Sight...": 43 Die In Migrant Shipwreck In Italy
Forty-three people died while 80 people survived when a boat carrying migrants crashed against rocks near the coast of southern Italy early on Sunday, the Italian coast guard and police said.
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Italy Recovers 217 Bodies From Hull Of 2015 Sunken Migrant Shipwreck
Italian navy officials say they have recovered 217 bodies from the hull of a migrant ship that sank off Libya last year in a tragedy that sparked the EU to beef up Mediterranean rescue operations.
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Drowned Migrant Baby Was Probably Somali: Italian Police
A dead baby plucked out of the sea whose picture caused international outrage this week was probably a six-month-old Somali boy whose mother most likely died in the same shipwreck, Italian authorities said on Wednesday.
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Italy Begins Recovery of 800 Migrant Bodies From Mediterranean Shipwreck
The Italian navy on Monday said it had begun efforts to recover the bodies of some 800 migrants killed in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean in April, as authorities rescued another 4,400 people making the dangerous sea journey to Europe.
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Mediterranean Shipwreck Crew Won't Face Kidnapping Charge
Two smugglers arrested over the deaths of hundreds drowned in the Mediterranean's most deadly shipwreck in decades will not be charged with kidnapping because assertions that migrants had been locked below deck had proved wrong, an Italian prosecutor said on Tuesday.
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Around 6,800 Migrants Rescued, Baby Girl Born on Italian Navy Ship
Around 6,800 migrants were rescued from overcrowded boats crossing to Europe over the weekend, including a mother who gave birth to a baby girl on an Italian navy ship, the coast guard said.
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Boat Skipper Facing Mass Murder Charge Over Migrant Disaster
The captain of a migrant boat that capsized in the Mediterranean's deadliest disaster in decades was arrested today on suspicion of causing the deaths of an estimated 800 people.
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Migrant Shipwreck Survivors Arrested as UN Says 800 Dead
Italian police have arrested two suspected people traffickers among the survivors of the migrant boat that capsized off Libya on Sunday, as the UN said 800 people were killed in the Mediterranean's worst migrant disaster.
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800 Dead After Sunday's Mediterranean Migrant Shipwreck: UN
The United Nations refugee agency has confirmed 800 migrants died in a shipwreck off Libya on Sunday after speaking to survivors of the disaster.
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Prime Minister Matteo Renzi Says Italy, Malta Rescuing Two Migrant Boats in Mediterranean
Italy and Malta are working to rescue two migrant boats in distress in the Mediterranean, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Monday, after hundreds were feared dead in a shipwreck over the weekend.
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27 Dead After Italy Migrant Shipwreck, Search Ops Underway
Italian authorities resumed their search Thursday for migrants missing at sea after two boats sank off the island of Lampedusa, with 27 people already confirmed dead.
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UK PM Starmer Meets Italy PM Meloni To Discuss Illegal Immigration
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Monday to discuss tackling illegal immigration, a day after another Channel migrant shipwreck claimed eight lives.
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41 Dead In Migrant Shipwreck Off Italy's Lampedusa Island: Report
Forty-one migrants died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean, the Ansa news agency reported on Wednesday, citing accounts from survivors who have just reached the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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At Least 30 Migrants Missing After 2 Shipwrecks Off Italian Island: Report
At least 30 migrants are missing following two shipwrecks off the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to survivor testimony, the UN's migration agency said Sunday.
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"Unable To Save Them": Fisherman Mourns After Italian Migrant Shipwreck
It was a Sunday that Italian fisherman Vincenzo Luciano will never forget. Well before dawn he ran to the beach near his house and started pulling bodies from the sea, victims of a deadly migrant shipwreck that has so far claimed 67 lives.
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"A Gruesome Sight...": 43 Die In Migrant Shipwreck In Italy
Forty-three people died while 80 people survived when a boat carrying migrants crashed against rocks near the coast of southern Italy early on Sunday, the Italian coast guard and police said.
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Italy Recovers 217 Bodies From Hull Of 2015 Sunken Migrant Shipwreck
Italian navy officials say they have recovered 217 bodies from the hull of a migrant ship that sank off Libya last year in a tragedy that sparked the EU to beef up Mediterranean rescue operations.
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Drowned Migrant Baby Was Probably Somali: Italian Police
A dead baby plucked out of the sea whose picture caused international outrage this week was probably a six-month-old Somali boy whose mother most likely died in the same shipwreck, Italian authorities said on Wednesday.
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Italy Begins Recovery of 800 Migrant Bodies From Mediterranean Shipwreck
The Italian navy on Monday said it had begun efforts to recover the bodies of some 800 migrants killed in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean in April, as authorities rescued another 4,400 people making the dangerous sea journey to Europe.
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Mediterranean Shipwreck Crew Won't Face Kidnapping Charge
Two smugglers arrested over the deaths of hundreds drowned in the Mediterranean's most deadly shipwreck in decades will not be charged with kidnapping because assertions that migrants had been locked below deck had proved wrong, an Italian prosecutor said on Tuesday.
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Around 6,800 Migrants Rescued, Baby Girl Born on Italian Navy Ship
Around 6,800 migrants were rescued from overcrowded boats crossing to Europe over the weekend, including a mother who gave birth to a baby girl on an Italian navy ship, the coast guard said.
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Boat Skipper Facing Mass Murder Charge Over Migrant Disaster
The captain of a migrant boat that capsized in the Mediterranean's deadliest disaster in decades was arrested today on suspicion of causing the deaths of an estimated 800 people.
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Migrant Shipwreck Survivors Arrested as UN Says 800 Dead
Italian police have arrested two suspected people traffickers among the survivors of the migrant boat that capsized off Libya on Sunday, as the UN said 800 people were killed in the Mediterranean's worst migrant disaster.
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800 Dead After Sunday's Mediterranean Migrant Shipwreck: UN
The United Nations refugee agency has confirmed 800 migrants died in a shipwreck off Libya on Sunday after speaking to survivors of the disaster.
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Prime Minister Matteo Renzi Says Italy, Malta Rescuing Two Migrant Boats in Mediterranean
Italy and Malta are working to rescue two migrant boats in distress in the Mediterranean, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Monday, after hundreds were feared dead in a shipwreck over the weekend.
