Lampedusa, Italy – It is Saturday morning and Ahmed is squeezed onto a small Italian coastguard boat docked at one of Lampedusa’s ports. There are about 30...
Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is responding well to treatment after he was taken to hospital with coronavirus, his doctor said, but warned his condition...
At least three migrants have died after a fire broke out on a boat carrying around 20 people during rescue operations off the southern coast of...
Palermo, Italy – It is a warm summer night and crowds of young people flood into Vucciria, an old market in the centre of Palermo. There...
Italy and Greece have long complained of being overwhelmed by undocumented migrants desperate to get into Europe. The European Union members are the main landing points...
The vast agricultural plains of the Agro-Pontino in central Italy is now one of the country’s main areas of food production. Yet it was not always...
At least 45 people including five children died earlier this week in the worst shipwreck reported so far this year off Libya’s coast, according to the...
Italy’s Senate lifted the immunity of former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday, opening the way for a trial of the right-wing leader on charges of...
Italy’s coastguard has rescued nearly 100 migrants, including women and children, on a “half-deflated” dinghy off the coast of Libya after authorities in other countries failed...
