Italy failed to save over 200 drowning migrants, UN says

More than 200 people, including 60 children, drowned as a result of delayed action by Italian authorities, the UN found.

Rescue ship cleared to dock in Sicily with 373 migrants on board

‘I’m proud of what I did’: Far-right Italian leader in court for blocking migrants

Activists accuse Italy of halting ship rescue mission

‘A turning point’: Italy praises plan to overhaul Europe’s asylum rules

Dozens of migrants flee second quarantine centre in Sicily

‘Thank you Italy’: Rescued migrants stranded off Sicily to disembark

Italian charity boats resume migrant rescues at sea after two-month break

Italy’s League party votes for Salvini to stand trial in migrant ‘kidnap’ case

Immigration to Italy is falling for the first time since 2014

Two ships carrying rescued migrants dock in Italy

No migrant ‘invasion’: Italy’s new interior minister

Italy renews deal with Libya to block migrants

Rome’s ‘invisible’ migrants offer alternative tourism guide to Eternal City

‘Unbearable’: Divers describe horror of finding Lampedusa shipwreck victims

Rescue ship cleared to dock in Italy as EU still lacks migrant plan

At least 13 dead, including pregnant women, after migrant boat capsizes off Italy

EU ministers agree new draft migrant rules to ease pressure on Italy

Two Italian officers to stand trial over 2013 shipwreck that killed 260 migrants

How would Italy’s idea for a new EU migrant distribution system work?

‘My actions were justified’: Sea Watch captain Carola Rackete defends bringing rescued migrants to Italy

Why an Italian pathologist is fighting to identify the Mediterranean’s migrant victims

How will Italy’s new government approach immigration?

Italy seizes Italian migrant rescue ship and fines crew €300,000

Italy seizes migrant rescue ship that defied ban and sailed to Sicily

Six migrants reported dead after Mediterranean rescue

Italy refuses entry to another migrant rescue ship

Desperate migrants jump from rescue ship near Italy

Spanish Armada sets sail to save migrants stuck off Italy

‘Disgrace to humanity’: Spain slams Italy’s Salvini over refusal to accept rescued migrants

Unrest among migrants on rescue ship stranded off Italian coast

UN concerned by Italy’s new law to fine migrant rescue ships up to €1m

Rescued migrants in limbo as two charity ships banned from Italian waters

Italy agrees to let 116 rescued migrants off coastguard ship

Carpenter or trafficking kingpin? Verdict looms in Italy’s ‘mistaken identity’ trial

Italy closes Europe’s biggest migrant centre

Migrant rescue sailboat defies Salvini by docking in Italy

Sea Watch captain to sue Italy’s Salvini for defamation

Italy agrees to ‘swap’ rescued migrants with Malta

Italian migrant rescue ship requests safe port with 54 aboard

Italian court rules Sea Watch migrant rescue captain is free to go

Sea Watch captain ‘ready to go to jail’ for bringing stranded migrants to Italy

‘Enough, we’re coming’: Stranded rescue ship heads for Italy without permission

Ship’s captain threatens to bring stranded migrants to Italy to end limbo

More than 40 migrants left in limbo on rescue boat off Italy

How Italy’s migrant model town Riace veered far-right

Italy takes rescued migrants to Genoa, but says they can’t stay

Italy takes in 150 refugees flown in from Libya

Italian navy rescues 100 people stranded in the Med

Pope sounds alarm over intolerance as EU nationalists win big

Families rescued off Libya allowed to land in Italy

Italy tells rescue ship carrying migrants to stay away

‘Closed ports’? Italy lets in 66 people rescued at sea

Migrant death ship to be shown at Venice art fair

Italy’s Salvini investigated again for false imprisonment

Riace mayor ‘Mimmi’ Lucano to be tried on illegal immigration charges

Italy releases seized migrant rescue ship

EU suspends migrant rescue patrols in Med after opposition from Italy

Italian senate votes to save Salvini from prosecution over rescued migrants

Italy releases seized Sea Watch rescue ship

Sea Watch migrants to dock in Italy after 7 countries agree to take them in

Netherlands rejects Italy’s call to take in Sea Watch migrants

Migrant rescue ship allowed into Italian waters amid storm

Italy’s Salvini may face trial for ‘kidnapping’ migrants after all

Hundreds evicted as Italy closes its second-largest migrant centre

‘Italian ports are closed’, Salvini warns migrant rescue ship seeking shelter from storm

‘Up to Italy’ to decide whether to end EU anti-trafficking operation in the Med

France summons Italian envoy over Africa ‘colonisation’ comments

Residents help group of 50 migrants to shore in southern Italy

Italian church to host Sea Watch migrants

Sicilian mayor defies Salvini on residency terms for migrants

Italy to take in some of Sea Watch migrants as part of international deal

18-year-old killed in blaze at migrant tent camp

UN condemns Italy’s anti-migrant decree and ‘climate of hatred’

Thousands rally in Rome over Italy’s ‘anti-migrant’ decree

Italy accuses France of trying to dump underage migrants over the border

French police admit taking two migrants over the Italian border ‘by mistake’

Italy threatens to close airports if Germany starts flying migrants back

New Italian-flagged migrant rescue ship heads into Mediterranean

Five years on from migrant tragedy, Italian island of Lampedusa seeks to lure back tourists

Luxembourg foreign minister compares Italy’s Matteo Salvini to fascist

‘Less tax dodging, more investment in Africa’: Italy slams proposed EU budget

Italian foreign minister in Libya for talks with Marshal Haftar

Salvini ‘exaggerated’ with pledge to repatriate 500,000 migrants says League colleague

Italy asks EU to land rescued migrants at French and Spanish ports instead

IN PICTURES: Thousands protest in Milan against Salvini-Orban alliance

ANALYSIS: Why Italy’s standoff over migrants is a problem for the whole EU

Italy’s Salvini allies with Hungary on anti-migration manifesto

Czech PM calls for no illegal migrants in Europe ahead of visit to Italy

Pensioners could get 10 years tax-free if they move to southern Italy

Four suspected people smugglers among migrants rescued by Italian coastguard

Italy lets migrants off stranded boat as deal reached

‘No one lands in Italy without my permission’: Salvini resists calls to let rescued migrants disembark

Sicilians bring arancini to port to bid rescued migrants welcome

Italy allows children on coastguard ship caught in limbo to disembark

Sweden turns down migrants docked in Italy

Nearly 200 rescued migrants held aboard Italian coastguard ship docked in Sicily

Berlin says Athens agrees to take back migrants and eyes deal with Italy

The Sicilian success story tackling ‘myths’ about migration

Germany hoping for a breakthrough in migration talks with Italy and Greece

Italy agrees to continue accepting rescued migrants

Italy and Libya reject new EU migrant strategy

Italian coastguard staff break silence to express concern over government migrant policy

Catholic aid organization: Italy urgently needs more migrant carers for the elderly

Italy refuses to take in drowned bodies according to Spanish NGO

Italians send postcards to Salvini to protest migrant policy

450 migrants disembark in Sicily after EU countries agree to take them in

France, Germany, Malta will take 50 rescued migrants each: Italian PM

Pro-migrant protests on France-Italy border

Migrants disembark coast guard ship in Sicily after reports of violence

Italy’s interior minister refuses to let migrants on coastguard ship disembark

Germany aims for migration deal with Italy by end of July

Italian coast guard ship to arrive in Sicily with 67 migrants aboard

For the first time, Italy prevents a private Italian ship from docking with rescued migrants

Opinion: ‘New EU migrant processing centres must avoid inhumanity of ‘hotspots’ in Greece and Italy’

Salvini vows to end all migrant arrivals to Italy by boat

Migrants have crossed the Mediterranean for centuries – but they used to go from north to south

Italy to give Libya extra boats to deal with migrant crossings

Italy will close ports to NGO migrant ships ‘all summer’ despite drownings

Italy claims victory as EU leaders agree on last-minute reforms on migration

Italy threatens to veto EU statement on migration

France joins Italy’s criticism of NGO migrant rescue ships

Italy PM held secret meeting with French president in Rome

Migrant rescue ship Lifeline to dock in Malta: Italy

Italy interior minister heads to Libya amid migrant crisis

Italy demands new regulations for migrants at tense EU summit

Italy doubles down on anti-migrant stance ahead of EU summit

Italy to seize German NGO ships, take in rescued migrants

Italy will ‘dare to say no’ to EU on migrants: Matteo Salvini

Italy says Spain should take ‘next four’ migrant boats

At least 60 migrants drowned in Med boat wreck, survivors tell Italian NGO

Italian coastguard ship brings more than 500 migrants to Sicily

What rules apply to migrants rescued at sea?

Italy seeks help from Nato to tackle migrant crisis

Hundreds of migrants stranded at sea amid standoff between Italy and Malta

Italy calls for tougher reforms of EU’s asylum rules

Italy cannot be ‘Europe’s refugee camp’: Matteo Salvini

Baby ‘Miracle’ born in rescue ship in Med

Migrants stranded in Med by diplomatic standoff arrive in Italy

Migrants sue Italy for ‘moral reparations’ over abuses by Libya

Italy’s top court rejects German NGO’s request to release its migrant rescue boat

Italy and its Mediterranean neighbours launch plan to identify migrants lost at sea

Italy ‘unaware’ of migrant resettlement deal announced by Israel

Migrants in Israel to resettle in Germany, Italy, Canada: Netanyahu

Italy received more asylum requests in 2017 than any other EU country except Germany

Spanish aid group slams Italy for seizing migrant rescue boat

Italy seizes NGO boat that refused to take migrants to Libya

Italy closes Lampedusa migrant centre for renovation after conditions criticized

Migrant rescued at sea dies hours after arriving in Italy

Italy must act on migration to fight populism: foreign minister

Migrant workers in Calabria protest after woman dies in tent city fire

On the frozen mountain migrant trail from Italy to France

Baby dies at sea as hundreds seek to cross stormy Mediterranean

Italy to send troops to Niger to tackle people trafficking

1,400 migrants brought to Italy, two bodies recovered after rescue at sea

Migrant electrocuted on top of train from Italy to France

Southern EU countries demand united EU policy on migration

More than 80 rescued, dozens missing in Mediterranean boat wreck

Year in review: Italy’s major news stories from 2017

Amnesty International: European governments are ‘complicit’ in abuse of migrants in Libya

Libya, Italy to join forces against people traffickers

From horror journey of migration to Italian fashion world

Italy holds funerals for 26 Nigerian women drowned at sea

Sharp drop in number of migrants entering Italy by sea

Nearly 50,000 young people left Italy last year

Pope urges world to tackle migration crisis with ‘love’

Italy marks four years since Lampedusa shipwreck tragedy

How Italy’s African entrepreneurs are helping to ease migrant pressure

Italy launches first official migrant integration plan: Five things you need to know

Italy security chiefs meet Libyan military strongman Haftar

How do Muslim immigrants feel about life in Italy?

German NGO urges Italy to release seized migrant rescue boat

Lampedusa’s anti-migration mayor says the island is ‘collapsing’

Spike in arrivals of migrants across the Mediterranean to Italy

Migrant aid group MOAS quits rescue operation in the Mediterranean

600 empty buildings identified for migrants displaced by evictions

EU and African states agree on Italian plans to curb migration

Forced eviction of migrants by police in Rome draws widespread condemnation

Austria strengthens border checks with Italy despite lower migrant arrivals

Anti migrant boat C-star claims it achieved its mission after plans to refuel in Italy abandoned

Road to Italy gets tougher for migrants

Former spymaster Minniti credited with stalling migration flow

Reduction in new sea arrivals leaves experts guessing why

Italy applauds Libya’s decision on migrant ‘search and rescue’ zone

Anti-migrant ship ‘did not need’ help from rescue activists

Number of migrants reaching Italy down since June

Eritrean priest denies Trapani charge of facilitating clandestine migration

Italy, Malta keep migrant vessel in limbo

UN must lead on Libya, says Italian minister

Austria tells Italy to keep migrants off mainland

What does it mean to be a ‘New Italian’? The question facing a divided Italy

Italy delays vote on citizenship rights for children of migrants

Italians debate whether Italy-born children of migrants should get citizenship

Italy proposes a pact with Libya to tackle human trafficking

Italian PM criticizes EU nations for failing to share migrant burden

Newborn baby among latest migrant arrivals to Italy

Far-right activists have hired a boat to ‘patrol’ the Mediterranean looking for migrants

Ex-PM Renzi says Italy should only take in a ‘fixed number’ of migrants

‘Italy is not alone’ in tackling migration crisis, EU ministers promise

The EU commission has unveiled a migrant ‘action plan’ for Italy

‘Are we really the problem?’ Migrant aid groups challenge ministers over response to crisis

Italy summons Austrian ambassador over threat of border controls

UN warns that Italy cannot handle migrant crisis alone

Austria plans to deploy soldiers at Italian border

Italy agrees to draw up migrant rescue ‘code of conduct’ with France and Germany

Italy urges EU ports to take migrants as pressure builds

UN refugee chief says Italy needs support helping migrants

Talks in Paris on Sunday on Italy’s migrant crisis

EU urges Italy not to close ports and offers more funds

How the spectre of Yugoslavia looms over EU’s handling of the refugee crisis

Italy threatens EU with closure of ports to rescue boats

Analysis: Rome mayor’s anti-migrant stance signals a shift to the right for the Five Star Movement

Italy arrests man suspected of torturing and killing migrants

Analysis: Are NGOs responsible for the migration crisis in the Mediterranean?

On World Refugee Day, 2,000 migrants are feared drowned en route to Italy

Over 120 migrants feared dead after their inflatable boat sank

‘Give more help to child migrants’, Save the Children tells Italy

Rome mayor calls for a stop to migrant arrivals to the capital

Italian police bust migrant trafficking ring in Sicily

Debunking myths about why people migrate across the Mediterranean

‘We barricaded ourselves in’: Veteran Italian seaman speaks about his experience of the migrant crisis

At least 58 people died trying to reach Italy last week

At least 30 people have drowned in a new Mediterranean disaster

‘Potential for friction’ as Trump meets other G7 leaders in Taormina

Migrants tell UNHCR of new shipwreck with dozens killed

‘They got the wrong man’: Doubts remain over identity of people-trafficking suspect

Italy makes deal with Libya, Chad and Niger aimed at cutting down migration

Libya asks Italy to arm coastguard patrol boats

Italy calls for police to be deployed on migrant rescue boats

Italy gives Libya four patrol boats to help fight illegal immigration

Libyan coastguard intercepts Italy-bound migrant ship after ‘sea duel’

Italian FM backs prosecutor on NGO migrant row

Italy has reached an agreement with Libya aimed at curbing migration

Mediterranean interior ministers meet to discuss migration flows

Italy brings in new tax breaks to attract wealthy foreigners

‘More rights and more humanity’: Italy overhauls anti-immigration security decree

‘Border controls will stem migrant flow via Italy’: Austria

‘Six thousand migrant arrivals is not an invasion’: Renzi

EU ministers fail to reach refugee quotas deal

Italy calls for single EU policy on asylum

London is great for jobs, but not the dolce vita

EU’s refugee plans need a reality check

EU states must help Med migrants: Mogherini

Two arrested in massive migrant cash scam

Experts warn against military response in Med

More than 100,000 Italians fled in 2014

A million people could flee Libya: Frontex chief

Swiss anti-immigration bill may hit Italians

17 people dead in new migrant tragedy

Italy boat rescues ‘were not migrant pull-factor’

Chef job in Germany gets 800 Italian applications

EU ‘radio silence’ over Italy migrant crisis

‘Open legal routes to refugees’: Malmström

More Italians flee while migration to Italy falls

Thirteen refugees die trying to reach Italy

Beachgoers make human chain to save migrants

Pope to pray for migrants in Lampedusa visit

Banksy-funded Mediterranean rescue boat calls for urgent help

‘We’re Italian too’: Second-generation migrants renew calls for citizenship