The Latest Breaking News from Italy

The weeks-old government is allowing only migrants identified as vulnerable to disembark. Humanitarian groups, activists and two lawmakers protested the selection process as illegal and inhumane.

Children and the sick were allowed off when boat run by German organisation SOS Humanity docked in Sicily

Grant Stewart made back-to-back fifties, 54 and 76, against Germany on Friday before following up with 48 against hosts Spain on Saturday.

Three NGO ships are stranded in the Mediterranean as Italy and Malta fail to greenlight entrance into port.

Children rescued in the Mediterranean must be allowed to disembark in a safe port, charities said Saturday, as a stand-off with Italy over migrant arrivals intensified. There are four humanitarian ships carrying rescued migrants currently requesting permission to dock safely in Italy as conditions at sea worsen in bad weather.…

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A helicopter flying from Italy's Tremiti islands to the mainland crashed on Saturday some 50 kilometres from the city of Foggia, in the southern-east region of Apulia, police said, adding seven people were feared dead in the accident.

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.

Two German-run migrant rescue ships carrying nearly 300 rescued people are waiting off the eastern coast of Sicily