"Luxury" migrant camp sparks row on Italian island
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"If they don't give us a new school, I'll bring all the kids into the immigrants' camp and teach them there"  By Silvia AloisiLAMPEDUSA, Italy - The barbed wire has gone and the dormitories look basic but reasonably clean. Welcome to the new-look camp for immigrants on the island of Lampedusa.Two years ago the island, a major transit point for thousands of boat people seeking a better life in Europe, drew scathing criticism for the squalor and abuse of its overcrowded camp.That has now been revamped and will soon be replaced by a more spacious, air-conditioned site as Italy pledges a more humane approach in its fight against illegal immigration. Read more
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Residents of Italian heritage say they are offended by the remarks made Monday in Ashtabula Municipal Court by former Ashtabula Township clerk Gloria Blackwell, blaming Italians for her legal and personal woes.
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ROME -- 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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EU leaders clashed today over a plan to set up camps in North Africa to process immigrants and asylum seekers to help stop the flow of illegal migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe.
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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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ROME - Almost 1,000 illegal immigrants have arrived at a southern Italian island over the weekend. Most are believed to be from North Africa.
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VICENZA, Italy  - Thousands of Italians gathered under heavy police guard on Saturday to protest against the expansion of a U.S. military base that has aroused strong opposition and divided the center-left government.
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Hundreds of migrants from Africa in rickety boats have landed in the last few days on Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island, and the Italian government is responding quickly and contentiously, sending most of them ...
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Boats carrying more than 400 migrants have been intercepted off Lampedusa over the past 48 hours, overwhelming the tiny island south of Sicily, local authorities said.
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SCHEVENINGEN, Netherlands European Union leaders clashed Friday over a plan to set up camps in North Africa to process immigrants and asylum seekers to help stop the flow of illegal migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe.
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Bodies of African migrants wash up on the beaches and those who survive the ocean voyage complain of discrimination and police harassment. This is not Italy or Spain, but the small central African country of Gabon.
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PADUA, Sep 5 (IPS) - 'Stop the Wall', say the posters on the  three-metre high metal panels that have come up to isolate the  migrant estate on Anelli Road from their surroundings in Padua.
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Italian military planes carried 360 would-be migrants from the Italian island of Lampedusa to Libya on Wednesday, a move that officials here described as an emergency response
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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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Advocacy groups for immigrant families and the Department of Homeland Security are at odds over detention facilities in Texas and Pennsylvania that critics argue are inhumanely housing adults and young children in jail-like conditions.
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A new migration deal between Italy and Libya has stopped thousands of people reaching Italian shores illegally, Italy's interior minister has said.
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More migrants arrive on Italy's Lampedusa island as PM Berlusconi prepares for migration talks in Libya.