The rescue that saved 47 migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean: ‘Open your eyes and keep coughing’
The Spanish non-profit Open Arms plucked 50 people from a sinking boat, including a pregnant woman and a baby. EL PAÍS witnessed the operation
The Spanish non-profit Open Arms plucked 50 people from a sinking boat, including a pregnant woman and a baby. EL PAÍS witnessed the operation
The Italian Coast Guard said Monday evening that 35 migrant boats needed help and all arrived at the island of Lampedusa. All the vessels had set out from Tunisia
The Senate will this week take up legislation to discourage migrant arrivals including proposals to eliminate or shorten a period of special protection for those unlikely to get refugee status
The country, whose government has declared a state of emergency to tackle the influx, has become the main illegal gateway into Europe in the first quarter of 2023
Some 31,000 migrants, either rescued by Italian military boats, charity ships or reaching Italy without assistance, have disembarked since the start of this year
Elly Schlein, who in 2020 revealed she was in a relationship with another woman, joined thousands of people at a demonstration in Milan to protest
The city of Milan has been told to stop officially recording both parents in same-sex couples on city registers
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s Cabinet approved a decree establishing a new crime – people smuggling that results in death or serious injury to migrants – punishable by up to 30 years in prison
The tragedy on the Sicilian island in 2013 marked a turning point in Italy’s political discourse, but a decade later nothing has changed and 26,000 people have died in the Mediterranean
Rescue services continue to search for the bodies of immigrants killed in a tragedy that has claimed at least 63 lives, although the number is expected to increase
State TV quoted the local prefect’s office as saying that by late morning 33 bodies had been recovered and 58 people were rescued
‘Il Cavaliere’ has received another favorable court ruling in connection with his ‘bunga bunga’ sex parties, but he is facing a political storm over his views on the Ukraine war