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The article discusses Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's groundbreaking agreement with Albania to handle migrant processing, hailed as a model for EU-non-EU cooperation, yet facing legal and ethical scrutiny amid Italy's escalating migrant arrivals and controversial outsourcing strategies.

The article focuses on the escalating migrant crisis in Lampedusa, Italy, where thousands of migrants have crowded a reception center built for 600, and the challenges it poses to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government. Topics include the strain on resources, tensions with neighboring European countries, and the need for a more effective approach to managing the influx of migrants.

The article focuses on Italy's Senate approving a comprehensive immigration package proposed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's hard-right government, which includes measures to restrict integration, establish government-controlled migrant centers, impose harsher punishment for people smugglers.

The article focuses on the tragedy that occurred in the Calabrian coast, southern Italy where a ship capsized killing 86 people onboard and the resulting furious debate about who is responsible for the tragedy. Topics include the Italian Parliament and news media's polemics about how to stop or welcome the migrants expected to arrive in the coming months, locals' compassion in the Calabrian coast, and policy changes introduced by the populist government in 2019.

The article reports many migrants from Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, who had been crossing from Turkey drowned as their boat broke apart near Italy; and the tragedy has prompted calls for action to control migration and human trafficking by the International Organization for Migration.

The article informs that charity·run rescue vessel carrying hundreds of migrants was heading to France after Italy declined to allow its passengers to disembark, prompting a claim of victory from the new right-wing, anti-migration government in Rome.

The article report that the Migrants are supposed to be identified and listed as asylum seekers in the first European country where they arrive, but often they hope to travel beyond the southern or eastern European countries where many enter the bloc. It mentions that the authorities are supposed to take up the migrants' asylum request in any European nation.

The article reports that Italian authorities are investigating the death of a l5·year·old boy from Ivory Coast who spent days on a "quarantine vessel" where migrants are being confined as a measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

The article reports that president Nella Musumeci of Sicily, Italy has ordered the closure of all migrant centers on the island as it was impossible to prevent the spread of the coronavirus at the facilities.

The article reports that the rescue of around 95 migrants took over 33 hours before the Maltese authorities launched a rescue operation.

The article focuses on the ceremony aboard an Italian Navy ship in Malta which was held to recognize Libyans who the European Union hopes can solve its migrant problem. Topics covered include the training received by Libyan Coast Guard officers to intercept and rescue migrant boats, the attempt by European leaders to shift the answer to migration crisis off its shores and the concern raised by human rights groups over the plan.

The article reports on the increasing number of migrants and refugees in Italy and the response and effort of the government to address the issue. Topics discussed include the plan of Austrian defense minister Hans Peter Doskozil to impose tougher border controls in the Brenner Pass, the refugee and political crisis in Europe, and the statement from president Arno Kompatscher of the autonomous province of Alto Adige in Italy.

The article reports that migrants of Africa who set off in rickety inflatable dingy have died in wreck off the Libya coast and mentions the views of Flavio Di Giacomo, spokesman of International Organization for Migration, on survivors of the disaster.

The article reports that prosecutors in Malta have brought legal charges against a nongovernmental organization active in the rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean, arguing that the Dutch vessel Lifeline had entered the country's waters illegally and lacked a proper boat registration.

The article discusses a crisis of increasing numbers of migrants dying during efforts to migrate to Europe from Africa and the Middle East, highlighting reports that as many as 900 migrants may have died off the coast of Libya in a shipwreck in April of 2015. Topics addressed include the Italian government's response to the crisis, the rescue of survivors of the shipwreck, and a similar ship accident in Greece.

The author discusses the immigration issue which has been toxic politically before Christmas due to which the Parliament passed law to naturalize children arrived with parents staying for long period and mention that several Italians had opened their home to migrants.

The article discusses the condition of African migrants in Libya, comments from John Springford of the Center for European Reform regarding the European Union policy on migrants and migrant crisis originated with the collapse of the government of Colonel Muammar el- Qaddafi.

The article reports that the government of Italy has provided finance for caring migrants who were arrived at reception center in Italy.

The article discusses an influx of African migrants seeking to immigrate to Italy aboard smuggler boats, noting the town of Pozzallo, Sicily's efforts to accommodate the immigrants and honor those that died in shipwrecks. Topics addressed include shifts in Italian immigration policy and its creation of the Mare Nostrum search-and-rescue program, the migrants' motivations for seeking to migrate to Europe, and a funeral for migrants who died at sea while attempting to enter Italy.

The article offers information on the food market in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele near the central train station of Rome, Italy. It mentions that the variety offered in the market stalls reflects the changing face of Italy wherein there are Chinese dried mushrooms, lemongrass, and chilli peppers. It adds that the number of foreign-born residents legally residing in the country has tripled to nearly 4.3 million with the largest coming from Romania, China, and Albania.

The article reports on shipwreck of the fishing boat, Adriana, carrying hundreds of migrants from eastern Libya hoping to reach Italy. Topics discussed include accusation against a Greek Coast Guard ship as being the cause of the fishing boat capsizing, the problem of Europe with smugglers, and estimated number of migrants who died on routes within and from the Middle East and North Africa in 2022.

The article reports capsize of an overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants to Europe off the coast of Libya on August 5, 2015 after being approached by a rescue vessel.

The article reports on the death of 29 migrants who were rescured alive off the Libyan seas before the Italian Coast Guard could get them to shore.

The article reports on 30 bodies of migrants in the hold of a fishing boat during the Italian naval personnel's rescue operation in the cost of Sicily.

The article reports that a migrant ship sinks in the Mediterranean Sea near the Italian island of Lampedusa on October 11, 2013.

ROME-- The Italian Coast Guard found the bodies of 25 young men in the hold of a boat crowded with migrants that was intercepted Monday en route from Libya. Members of the coast guard found 271 survivors aboard the 50-foot boat when they boarded it less than a mile off the small Italian island of Lampedusa, which lies near the North African coast and is a frequent destination for illegal migrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROME -- More than 250 people, including women and children, were missing on Wednesday after their boat capsized off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa in the worst shipwreck since thousands of migrants began traveling to Italy because of the unrest in North Africa. The vessel, which capsized in the predawn dark, had been carrying mostly sub-Saharan Africans, including at least one pregnant woman. The capsized vessel was among the first to try to reach Lampedusa from Libya since fighting began in Libya in February. About 22,000 migrants have arrived on the island since January, most of them from Tunisia. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROME -- Tunisia on Monday rejected Italy's offer to send its armed forces to help stop what one Italian official called an ''unprecedented biblical exodus.'' The official TAP news agency quoted a government spokesman as saying Tunisia, which deposed its autocratic president last month in a landmark uprising, ''categorically rejects any interference in its internal affairs or offense against its sovereignty.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on criticism received by Greece for not helping the fishing boat carrying smuggled migrants that sank in front of a Greek Coast Guard vessel. Topics discussed include remarks from Coast Guard spokesman Nikos Alexiou, estimated number of casualties of the shipwreck, and remarks from Markella Io Papadouli, a lawyer specializing in maritime law and human rights at the Advice on Individual Rights in Europe Centre.

The article discusses a fire on a boat which killed a number of African migrants attempting to enter the island of Lampedusa, Italy on October 2, 2013. Topics addressed include criticisms of immigration laws in Europe, smugglers hired to enable migrants to enter Europe, and the political response to the accident.

The article reports on the increase in the number illegal immigrants from Africa who are crossing the Mediterranean sea through dinghies to reach Spain which is nine miles from the coast of Morocco.

ROME -- Italy and France agreed on Friday to carry out joint sea and air patrols to prevent Tunisian migrants from arriving in Italy, a move that appeared to ease tensions between them over how to contend with thousands of North African migrants who have landed in Italy since January. After a meeting in Milan on Friday, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni and his French counterpart, Claude Gueant, said the two countries would work together to patrol the coasts and enforce an accord between Italy and Tunisia, a former French colony, on the return of migrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the decline in number of migrants in Italy in 2017 and mentions topics including humanitarian costs, human rights protection of migrants across Libya, and enslavement cases.