EXPLAINER: What's behind Italy's migrant sea rescue standoff
2 years, 1 month ago

EXPLAINER: What's behind Italy's migrant sea rescue standoff

The Independent  

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Italy's Salvini defiant as verdict due in migrant trial
3 days, 13 hours ago

Italy's Salvini defiant as verdict due in migrant trial

Raw Story  

by Ljubomir MILASIN with Alice RITCHIE in Rome Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was defiant Friday as he arrived for the verdict in his long-running trial for blocking a migrant rescue ship at sea, for which he risks six years in jail. - Resist the pressure - Meloni, whose hard-right government has also targeted charity rescue ships in its …

Italy’s deputy premier faces verdict for blocking migrants at sea
5 days ago

Italy’s deputy premier faces verdict for blocking migrants at sea

LA Times  

A man who threw himself in the water from the Open Arms vessel is intercepted by the Italian Coast Guard as he tried to swim to the island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, on Aug. 20, 2019. Italy’s deputy premier, Matteo Salvini, has sounded defiant ahead of Friday’s court verdict in Sicily for blocking some 100 migrants at sea on a …

Girl, 11, rescued after shipwreck stranded her alone at sea for three days
1 week, 5 days ago

Girl, 11, rescued after shipwreck stranded her alone at sea for three days

The Independent  

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Libya’s coast guard intercepts 64 Europe-bound migrants, days after a deadly shipwreck
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Libya’s coast guard intercepts 64 Europe-bound migrants, days after a deadly shipwreck

Associated Press  

CAIRO — Libya’s coast guard intercepted dozens of Europe-bound migrants on a boat and returned them to shore, authorities said Saturday, a few days after a shipwreck off the North African country left nearly two dozen dead or missing. The boat was carrying 64 migrants and was intercepted Friday off the northwestern town of Sirte, according to the town’s coast …

Ten years of maritime resistance in the Mediterranean Sea
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Ten years of maritime resistance in the Mediterranean Sea

Al Jazeera  

European states may resent civilian rescuers helping migrant boats in distress in the Mediterranean, but they are here to stay. Next month will mark 10 years since the first nongovernmental rescue organisation entered the central Mediterranean in search of migrant boats in distress. When NGO rescuers first came onto the scene, there were some concerns that their rescue activities would …

Italian coast guard searches for dozens of migrants missing after their ship capsized
6 months ago

Italian coast guard searches for dozens of migrants missing after their ship capsized

The Independent  

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At least 11 dead, several migrants missing in two shipwrecks off Italy
6 months ago

At least 11 dead, several migrants missing in two shipwrecks off Italy

The Hindu  

Sixty-four people were missing in the Mediterranean Sea and several were rescued after their ship wrecked off Italy's southern coast on Monday, United Nations' agencies said in a statement. In a separate shipwreck, rescue workers evacuated dozens of suspected migrants but found 10 bodies trapped below the deck of a wooden boat off Italy’s tiny Lampedusa island, the German aid …

64 people missing and many rescued from 2 shipwrecks off Italy. At least 11 have died
6 months ago

64 people missing and many rescued from 2 shipwrecks off Italy. At least 11 have died

Associated Press  

ROME — Sixty-four people were missing in the Mediterranean Sea and several were rescued after their ship wrecked off Italy’s southern coast Monday, United Nations’ agencies said in a statement. In a separate shipwreck, rescue workers evacuated dozens of suspected migrants but found 10 bodies trapped below the deck of a wooden boat off Italy’s tiny Lampedusa island, the German …

Baby found dead in migrant boat heading for Italy
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Baby found dead in migrant boat heading for Italy

The Independent  

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Italy's right-wing ministers crack down on NGOs helping migrants entering by sea
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Italy's right-wing ministers crack down on NGOs helping migrants entering by sea

NPR  

Italy's right-wing ministers crack down on NGOs helping migrants entering by sea SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Italy's civil aviation agency says it's preventing aircraft that belong to migrant rescue organizations from operating out of several Mediterranean islands, including Sicily. Tens of thousands of migrants sail from North Africa every year, and as Willem Marx reports, these aircraft restrictions are just the …

Italy bars NGO migrant rescue flights from Sicilian airport, says they interfere with coast guard
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Italy bars NGO migrant rescue flights from Sicilian airport, says they interfere with coast guard

Associated Press  

ROME — Italy’s aviation authority has barred humanitarian migrant rescue groups from using a Sicilian airport to launch search and rescue flights over the Mediterranean, in the government’s latest move to regulate their activities. An ordinance from ENAC’s western Sicilian office said the flights interfered with the Italian coast guard’s exclusive role in coordinating search and rescue efforts and put …

A German charity protests after Italy seizes a migrant rescue ship involved in a weekend clash
9 months, 2 weeks ago

A German charity protests after Italy seizes a migrant rescue ship involved in a weekend clash

Associated Press  

MILAN — The humanitarian rescue group SOS Humanity on Wednesday protested Italy’s seizure of its migrant rescue ship Humanity 1, fresh from a weekend rescue during which the charity said Libyan Coast Guard fired live bullets and used violence. “If the so-called Libyan Coast Guard had not turned up to illegally return survivors to Libya, we would have carried out …

Italy’s regulations on charities keep migrant rescue ships from the Mediterranean
11 months ago

Italy’s regulations on charities keep migrant rescue ships from the Mediterranean

Associated Press  

BARI, Italy — The year has gotten off to a slow start for a rescue ship that typically plies the Mediterranean Sea looking for migrants and refugees in distress. It was the second time in as many months that Italian authorities detained the 69-meter ship, operated by the European group SOS Mediterranee, while enforcing a year-old Italian government decree that …

Spanish charity protests Italy’s impounding of rescue ship for multiple rescues
1 year, 2 months ago

Spanish charity protests Italy’s impounding of rescue ship for multiple rescues

Associated Press  

MILAN — Italy has impounded the Spanish charity rescue ship Open Arms for violating rules by Italy’s right-wing government banning multiple rescues at sea, the charity said Thursday. The boat is blocked from leaving the port of Carrera in Tuscany for 20 days and the charity has been levied a fine of between 3,000 and 10,000 euros, the charity Open …

A flotilla of migrant boats from Tunisia overwhelms an Italian island and tests Meloni’s policy
1 year, 3 months ago

A flotilla of migrant boats from Tunisia overwhelms an Italian island and tests Meloni’s policy

Associated Press  

ROME — A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia, overwhelmed a tiny southern Italian island on Wednesday, taxing the coast guard’s capability to intercept the smugglers’ vessels and testing Premier Giorgia Meloni’s pledge to thwart irregular migration. With Lampedusa-based Italian coast guard and border patrol vessels unable to intercept all of the smugglers’ boats offshore, …

A flotilla of migrant boats from Tunisia overwhelms an Italian island and tests Meloni’s policy
1 year, 3 months ago

A flotilla of migrant boats from Tunisia overwhelms an Italian island and tests Meloni’s policy

LA Times  

Migrants swim next to their overturned wooden boat during a rescue operation last year off the Italian island of Lampedusa. A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia, overwhelmed a tiny southern Italian island on Wednesday, taxing the coast guard’s capability to intercept the smugglers’ vessels and testing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s pledge to thwart irregular …

Migrants from dozens of boats reach tiny Italian isles; charity ship rescues hundreds of people
1 year, 4 months ago

Migrants from dozens of boats reach tiny Italian isles; charity ship rescues hundreds of people

Associated Press  

ROME — Migrants who set out in dozens of flimsy boats launched by smugglers on Tunisian shores have disembarked on three tiny Italian islands in a span of two days, officials said. The Italian coast guard on Sunday recovered a man’s body from a shipwreck of a rubber dinghy a day earlier near Marettimo, Italian state TV quoted a Trapani-based …

Italy probes a migrant boat disaster that left 41 feared dead. Four survivors tell a harrowing tale
1 year, 4 months ago

Italy probes a migrant boat disaster that left 41 feared dead. Four survivors tell a harrowing tale

Associated Press  

ROME — An Italian prosecutor investigating last week’s capsizing that left 41 migrants feared dead in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday denounced Tunisia-based smugglers who launch boats so badly built that they quickly take on water, overturn or break apart. The boat the survivors set off in is the type hastily soldered together with pieces of iron by smugglers in …

41 migrants dead in shipwreck off coast of Italy, survivors say
1 year, 4 months ago

41 migrants dead in shipwreck off coast of Italy, survivors say

The Independent  

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Dozens dead after boat capsizes off Tunisia, four survivors arrive in Italy
1 year, 4 months ago

Dozens dead after boat capsizes off Tunisia, four survivors arrive in Italy

Al Jazeera  

Four survivors, who were brought to Italy’s Lampedusa, say 41 people died off Tunisia where their boat capsized. Forty-one people are believed dead after a boat capsized off Tunisia, according to Italian state RAI television that cited four survivors who were rescued and brought to land on Wednesday. Alessandra Filograno, a spokeswoman for the Italian Red Cross, confirmed four survivors …

Aid groups seek an EU commission review of migration law in Italy as it impounds rescue ships
1 year, 5 months ago

Aid groups seek an EU commission review of migration law in Italy as it impounds rescue ships

Associated Press  

ROME — A coalition of humanitarian groups formally asked the European Commission to review Italy’s legislation governing migration on Thursday, following the Italian government’s latest detention of a ship used to rescue migrants at sea. Emergency, Doctors Without Borders, SOS Humanity and ASGI, a legal association that studies migration, filed the request alleging that the Italian legislation raises questions about …

More than 1,400 migrants are rescued from overcrowded boats off southern Italy by coast guard
1 year, 6 months ago

More than 1,400 migrants are rescued from overcrowded boats off southern Italy by coast guard

Associated Press  

ROME — More than 1,400 migrants have been rescued from overcrowded vessels, including a sailboat, in four separate operations in the Mediterranean Sea off southern Italy, the Italian coast guard said Wednesday. There were 47 migrants, including two children in immediate need of medical care, aboard the sailboat in distress off the region of Calabria, in the “toe” of the …

About 500 onboard boat in distress in Mediterranean, NGO says
1 year, 7 months ago

About 500 onboard boat in distress in Mediterranean, NGO says

Al Jazeera  

Italian NGO Emergency says Maltese authorities have so far failed to heed calls for a rescue as boat takes on water in bad weather. “The absence of coordination on the part of the authorities is a grave violation of the law of the sea.” Emergency said it had contacted Maltese authorities, in line with maritime procedures, but had received no …

Suspected smuggler in deadly shipwreck sent back to Italy
1 year, 7 months ago

Suspected smuggler in deadly shipwreck sent back to Italy

The Independent  

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Over 1,000 migrants reach Italian isle; 23 reported missing
1 year, 7 months ago

Over 1,000 migrants reach Italian isle; 23 reported missing

Associated Press  

ROME — With the return of calm seas, migrant smugglers launched dozens of boats from Tunisia during the weekend and some 1,200 people ended up on a tiny Italian island while several were reported missing at sea, the Italian Coast Guard said Monday. In one shipwreck some 20 nautical miles off Lampedusa island coast guard and border police vessels said …

Italy pushes crackdown on migrants reaching its shores
1 year, 8 months ago

Italy pushes crackdown on migrants reaching its shores

Associated Press  

ROME — Italy’s right-wing government pressed ahead with plans to crack down on migrants as they arrived by the hundreds on Monday at a Sicilian port after a coast guard rescue. Coalition ally Matteo Salvini, who leads the anti-migrant League party, wants the country to eliminate a status known as “special protection” for many of the tens of thousands of …

UN: Year is off to a deadly start for migrants crossing Med
1 year, 8 months ago

UN: Year is off to a deadly start for migrants crossing Med

The Independent  

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Italy declares state of emergency as migrant numbers surge
1 year, 8 months ago

Italy declares state of emergency as migrant numbers surge

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Boat carrying 400 migrants adrift between Italy and Malta
1 year, 8 months ago

Boat carrying 400 migrants adrift between Italy and Malta

Al Jazeera  

People onboard say the boat has been adrift for two days as it has taken on water and is without a captain. A vessel with around 400 migrants and refugees onboard is adrift between Italy and Malta as it awaits rescue from Italian coastguard, according to sea rescue support service Alarm Phone. “The boat has now reached the search and …

Italy: 30 migrants missing, 17 rescued after boat capsizes in Mediterranean
1 year, 9 months ago

Italy: 30 migrants missing, 17 rescued after boat capsizes in Mediterranean

Firstpost  

Rome, Italy: About 30 migrants were missing and presumed drowned after the overcrowded boat they were on capsized during a rescue attempt by a cargo ship off Libya, Italy’s coastguard said on Sunday. “During the rescue operations… the boat capsized during the transfer of the migrants: 17 people were rescued and recovered by the vessel while approximately 30 migrants were …

Italy estimates 680K migrants might cross sea from Libya
1 year, 9 months ago

Italy estimates 680K migrants might cross sea from Libya

Associated Press  

ROME — Intelligence reports indicate nearly 700,000 migrants are in Libya awaiting an opportunity to set out by sea toward Italy, a lawmaker from Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party said Sunday, but a U.N. migration official called the number not credible. Tommaso Foti, the lower parliamentary house whip for the Brothers of Italy Party, told television channel Tgcom24 the Italian …

Italian coastguards bring 1,300 migrants ashore in three separate rescue missions
1 year, 9 months ago

Italian coastguards bring 1,300 migrants ashore in three separate rescue missions

The Telegraph  

More than 1,300 migrants were brought ashore in Italy on Saturday after three separate rescue operations in the Mediterranean, two weeks after at least 74 people died when their boat hit rocks near the coast. Growing numbers of migrant arrivals have piled pressure on Italy’s conservative government, which took office last October promising to reduce the flow only to see …

Italy launches rescue for hundreds of refugees on boats
1 year, 9 months ago

Italy launches rescue for hundreds of refugees on boats

Al Jazeera  

An estimated 1,300 people are in danger off Calabria, where 73 people recently drowned in a shipwreck that sparked scrutiny of Italy’s rescue operations. The Italian coastguard has launched multiple rescue operations to save hundreds of refugees packed aboard boats off the Calabria region, less than two weeks after at least 73 people drowned in a shipwreck. “The rescue operations …

Italy to raise penalties for smugglers after migrant tragedy
1 year, 9 months ago

Italy to raise penalties for smugglers after migrant tragedy

Associated Press  

ROME — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni unveiled her right-wing government’s plans to crack down on people smugglers following a Cabinet meeting she led Thursday in the southern town near the beach where a wooden boat packed with migrants broke apart 11 days earlier, killing scores and leaving many missing. By holding the meeting in Cutro, Calabria, instead of the capital, …

Italy rejects any blame for deadly migrant shipwreck
1 year, 9 months ago

Italy rejects any blame for deadly migrant shipwreck

Associated Press  

ROME — Italy’s interior minister on Tuesday strongly rejected claims that government policies to discourage illegal migration played a role in a shipwreck off the nation’s southern coast in which at least 72 people died. Opposition lawmakers and humanitarian groups have decried Italy’s decision to send only border police boats and not coast guard rescue boats to the aid of …

Shipwreck off Italy: Stadium filled with coffins of migrants
1 year, 9 months ago

Shipwreck off Italy: Stadium filled with coffins of migrants

Associated Press  

ROME — Wailing and other expressions of grief echoed through a sports complex in southern Italy as public viewing began Wednesday of the closed coffins holding the bodies of dozens of migrants who died in a shipwreck. While many smugglers launch boats filled with migrants from the shores of Libya and Tunisia across the central Mediterranean toward southern Italy or …

Italy migrant tragedy death toll over 60; dozens missing
1 year, 9 months ago

Italy migrant tragedy death toll over 60; dozens missing

India Today  

The death toll rose to at least 63 in the migrant tragedy off Italy’s southern coast after rescue crews recovered several more bodies Monday, driving home once again the desperate and dangerous boat crossings of people seeking to reach Europe. “Many of them didn’t know how to swim and they saw people disappear in the waves; they saw them die,” …

Several children among at least 62 feared killed in Italy shipwreck
1 year, 9 months ago

Several children among at least 62 feared killed in Italy shipwreck

Firstpost  

Crotone: Rescuers recovered three more bodies on Monday, a day after a wooden sailboat carrying migrants to Europe smashed onto rocks in inclement weather off southern Italy, bringing the death toll to 62, including at least 14 children. The disaster has reopened a debate on migration in Europe and Italy, where the recently elected right-wing government’s tough new laws for …

Death toll at 64 and dozens missing after migrant boat breaks apart off Italian coast
1 year, 9 months ago

Death toll at 64 and dozens missing after migrant boat breaks apart off Italian coast

LA Times  

Italian Red Cross volunteers and coast guard officials recover a body after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas off southern Italy. The death toll rose to at least 64 in the migrant tragedy off Italy’s southern coast after rescue crews recovered several more bodies Monday, driving home once again the desperate and dangerous boat crossings of people seeking …

Italy detains migrant rescue ship, fines charity
1 year, 10 months ago

Italy detains migrant rescue ship, fines charity

Al Jazeera  

Italy’s far-right government is taking legal action against a vessel operated by MSF in the Mediterranean Sea. Italian authorities have detained and fined a rescue ship operated by Doctors Without Borders, shortly after parliament passed into law a government decree establishing a code of conduct for migrant charity ships. “It is not acceptable to be punished for saving lives.” Despite …

More than 500 refugees arrive in Italy as rescue ships dock
2 years ago

More than 500 refugees arrive in Italy as rescue ships dock

Al Jazeera  

Italian interior ministry sources say the decision to allow the two ships to dock was based on the poor weather and risks faced by those on board. Italy, which has vowed a tough line on immigration, took in more than 500 refugees as two charity rescue ships were allowed to dock at ports in the south after several days at …

Italy allows 2nd aid group’s migrant rescue boat to dock
2 years ago

Italy allows 2nd aid group’s migrant rescue boat to dock

Associated Press  

ROME — Italy on Friday gave permission for a second humanitarian group’s ship to disembark its passengers at an Italian port, seemingly softening its hard line against European-flagged vessels that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Italian authorities told the crew of the Geo Berents, chartered by the French group Doctors Without Borders, to head toward Salerno, near Naples, with …

Italy backs down on 3 migrant ships, 4th heads to Corsica
2 years, 1 month ago

Italy backs down on 3 migrant ships, 4th heads to Corsica

The Independent  

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EXPLAINER: What’s behind Italy’s migrant sea rescue standoff
2 years, 1 month ago

EXPLAINER: What’s behind Italy’s migrant sea rescue standoff

Associated Press  

MILAN — Italy’s new far-right-led government has blocked humanitarian rescue ships from accessing its ports, resulting in a standoff with charities that patrol the deadly central Mediterranean, rescuing people in trouble at sea. Two charity rescue boats that entered Italian waters this weekend were directed to the Sicilian port of Catania, where Italian authorities allowed the disembarkation only of migrants …

Italy allows more migrants off rescue ships, standoff eases
2 years, 1 month ago

Italy allows more migrants off rescue ships, standoff eases

LA Times  

Migrants wait aboard the Norway-flagged Geo Barents rescue ship before Italian authorities allowed them to disembark in the Sicilian port of Catania on Tuesday. The far-right-led Italian government’s weeks-long standoff with aid groups running rescue ships partially eased Tuesday, as officials allowed all remaining migrants on two rescue ships to access port. Doctors Without Borders, which operates the Geo Barents, …

Rescue charity to take Italy to court over migrant boats standoff
2 years, 1 month ago

Rescue charity to take Italy to court over migrant boats standoff

Al Jazeera  

Italy’s new right-wing government has allowed only a select number of migrants to leave two rescue boats. “The partial and selective disembarkation, such as suggested in the Italian government’s decree, is heinous and can’t be considered lawful according to maritime conventions,” Doctors Without Borders said on Monday. #GrazieGiorgia https://t.co/llTz5XO2xi — Orbán Viktor November 6, 2022 Pope Francis also entered the …

Ship refuses to leave Italy port until all migrants are off
2 years, 1 month ago

Ship refuses to leave Italy port until all migrants are off

Associated Press  

CATANIA, Sicily — The captain of a charity-run migrant rescue ship refused Italian orders to leave a Sicilian port Sunday after authorities refused to let 35 of the migrants on his ship disembark — part of directives by Italy’s new far-right-led government targeting foreign-flagged rescue ships. “Free all the people, free them,’' Italian lawmaker Aboubakar Soumahoro said in an emotional …

German rescue ship enters Sicilian port, disembarks minors
2 years, 1 month ago

German rescue ship enters Sicilian port, disembarks minors

Associated Press  

MILAN — Italy allowed a humanitarian rescue ship carrying 179 migrants to enter a Sicilian port and begin disembarking minors early Sunday, while refusing to respond to requests for safe harbor from three other ships carrying 900 more people in nearby waters. Italy’s new far-right-led government has closed its ports to rescue ship run by non-governmental groups and insists that …

Italy lets minors, sick off migrant rescue boat but spurns others
2 years, 1 month ago

Italy lets minors, sick off migrant rescue boat but spurns others

Al Jazeera  

Italy allows minors and ‘vulnerable’ refugees on board German-flagged rescue ship to disembark, but refuses to respond to safe harbour for three other vessels carrying about 900 people. Italy has allowed a rescue ship carrying 179 refugees and migrants to enter a port in Sicily and begin disembarking children and sick or “vulnerable” people. But challenged the government’s move to …

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