Lampedusa mayor Salvatore Martello likened Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz to a “neo-Nazi” after Kurz suggested that migrants should be kept on Italian islands rather than allowed to move north.
An immigrant shouted ‘I want to die for Allah’ as he was escorted away after attacking a police officer with a knife in Italy.
A deadly combination of a plummeting birthrate and massive immigration portend that native Italians will make up an increasingly small percentage of Italy’s overall population, a new study reports.
Italy is considering a “nuclear option” to ease its migrant burden: approving emergency visas so arrivals can move on into Northern Europe.
Contents: EU countries refuge to help Italy deal with massive refugee crisis; Italy considers a ‘code of conduct,’ and possibly the ‘nuclear option’; Italy’s ‘nuclear option’ would force other countries to absorb refugees
A former Army staff sergeant who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in Afghanistan seven years ago gave is sharing his award with the unit he served with.
With a flood of migrants arriving on Italy’s shores, a bitter debate has erupted over whether children born on Italian soil to foreign parents should have citizenship rights at birth.
Between Wednesday and Thursday, the Italian Coast Guard coordinated more than 20 rescue operations off the coast of Libya, bringing some 4,100 African migrants to Italy.
European Union member states have agreed to pay 100 euros a week to new recruits in the Libyan coastguard to boost the number of officers to tackle people smuggling.
Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti plans to fly to Libya later this week where he is expected to meet with mayors of various Libyan cities to discuss bringing an end to people smuggling in the country.
The majority of Italians want to see migrant arrivals stopped completely, and believe the ‘ius soli’ law being pushed by Italy’s globalist government is “ethnic replacement”, enacted to boost the proportion of left wing voters in the nation.
The Italian government has released its eleven-point migrant code of conduct which must be followed by pro-migrant NGOs or they will not be allowed to use Italian ports.
MILAN (AP) – Italian authorities have arrested a 38-year-old Chechen accused of fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria and participating in a deadly attack on foreign and Russian journalists in Chechnya, prosecutors disclosed Saturday. Prosecutors told a news
The first vice president of the European Commission has said he expects the UK to take in migrants from North Africa as part of a new European Union (EU) programme.
Morrissey has canceled several concert dates in Italy after alleging that a police officer in Rome pulled a gun on him in a “deliberate act of terror.”
MILAN (AP) — An Italian artist has used his tractor to transform a field near the Italian city of Verona into a giant portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of this week’s Group of 20 summit.
Migration from Libya to Europe has increased in the last year, is expected to increase further, and consists overwhelmingly of young men, who are mostly economic migrants, a new United Nations study has found.
Italy summoned Austria’s ambassador Tuesday after Vienna threatened to send troops to the border to stop migrants entering, as the number crossing the Mediterranean topped 100,000 this year.
Despite efforts by individual nations and the European Union to get to grips with the migrant crisis, nearly 100,000 people crossed the Mediterranean in the first half of 2017.
Cardinal Peter Turkson, the highest ranking African prelate in the Vatican, said it is high time to “close the tap” of African immigration into Europe, which has reached new records in recent days. Asked about recent rumblings that Italian authorities
Contents: France struggles with hundreds of migrants returning to Calais campground; Italy begs for help after 12,000 migrants arrive in four days
As France, Belgium and the UK are pummeled by repeated deadly acts of Islamic terror, Italy has remained relatively unscathed, leading many to wonder aloud wherein lies the key to Italy’s successful counterterrorism efforts.
Italian officials say the government has threatened to block foreign boats from delivering African migrants to its ports, declaring the situation to be “unsustainable”.
ROME (AP) — Italy is seeking increased support from the European Union as it deals with a huge wave of migrant arrivals, including a reported proposal to limit the types of ships that can offload migrants in Italian ports.
Nigerian migrant gangs are collaborating with the Sicilian Mafia in the organisation of prostitution rackets and the heroin trade, according to Italian police sources.
Italy’s migrant welcome centers are in a state of “collapse” as huge waves of African migrants take advantage of the temperate climate to make the crossing from Libya to the Italian peninsula.
Around 400 migrants attempted to storm the French border from Italy Monday night as police employed tear gas near the Italian town of Ventimiglia.
ROME (AP) — Exit polls early Monday indicated that center-right forces, including an anti-immigrant party, were headed to victory in several key mayoral runoffs, two weeks after a first round of voting saw most populist candidates eliminated in all big
Italians this week cheered the electoral defeat of a mayor who signed a deal with George Soros to turn the tiny island of Lampedusa into a gateway to Europe for migrants travelling from Africa.
United Airlines canceled an Italy-bound flight Tuesday evening after one of the plane’s wings leaked a massive amount of fuel shortly before takeoff at Newark Liberty International Airport.
The Mayor of Rome has called for a suspension of migration into Italy’s capital after what she called “a continued influx of foreign citizens” has left the city unable to provide further accommodation.
The Italian designers behind one of Melania Trump’s favorite brands, Dolce & Gabbana, have launched a fashion campaign that seems to mock critics who continue to demand they stop dressing the First Lady.
ROME (AP) — Italian voters have rejected the populist 5-Star Movement in mayoral elections, favoring established center-left and center-right tickets, but its leader vowed Monday to press on until national power is achieved.
ROME (AP) — First exit polls indicate candidates from a populist movement did poorly in the main Italian mayoral races, with the leading candidates coming from both the traditional center-right and center-left camps.
Between Saturday and Sunday, some 2,850 African migrants were shuttled to Italy in 23 different rescue operations carried out by the Italian Coast Guard and various NGOs.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A boat belonging to a Spanish aid organization has rescued 391 migrants attempting the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. Laura Lanuza, spokeswoman for Spain’s Proactiva Open Arms aid group, says that its ship Golfo Azzurro
In a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella Saturday, Pope Francis praised Italy’s generosity in welcoming the “numerous refugees that land on its shores.” The Pope went for an official state visit to the Quirinale palace Saturday morning, where he
London Bridge terrorist Youssef Zaghba is just one of a hundred Italian nationals on terror watch lists who have been able to enter Britain due to Free Movement rules which prevent the authorities from denying entry to EU nationals unless they represent a “genuine, present and serious” threat.
Two of the three London Bridge terrorists are believed to have used European Union migration rights to enter Britain, despite one of them having previously had an asylum application rejected. East London-based Rachid Redouane (above left), 30, who claimed to
In a recent gathering of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member country leaders at their Brussels, Belgium Headquarters, U.S. President Donald Trump formally asked those whose governments aren’t fulfilling their treaty defense funding obligations to pay up.
