France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Tuesday (September 19), his government will not welcome any migrants coming from Italy's tiny Lampedusa island which saw the arrival of a record number of aliens last week.

France flat out refuses to 'welcome' migrants from Lampedusa

The Italian island of Lampedusa is grappling with the new wave of migrant crisis. The island has been a witness to a record number of migrant landings, a vast majority of them arriving via sea from North Africa, Italy.

Italy migrant crisis: EU Chief, Italy PM Giorgia Meloni visit Lampedusa island

The Italian island of Lampedusa, overwhelmed by the arrival of over 6,000 aliens is finally breathing a sigh of relief after the government started sending the migrants to Sicily, according to news agency AFP.

Crowded Lampedusa breathes easy after government transfers migrants to Sicily

Italy: Lampedusa grapples with surge in migrant arrivals

Italy: Lampedusa hit with record migrant arrival; baby drowns during migrant rescue operation

The Italian island of lampedusa is grappling with a new wave of migrant crisis. The island has been a witness to a record number of migrant landings. A vast majority of them arrive via sea from North Africa. Italy has now transferred hundreds of these migrants to Sicily from Lampedusa.

Lampedusa grapples with surge in migrant arrivals

In another migrant shipwreck incident, around 40 people are missing after their boat capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the UN said on Friday. The United Nations agency released a statement saying that the survivors, who were from sub-Saharan Africa, arrived in Lampedusa on Thursday after they were rescued from the shipwreck by another vessel.

Around 40 migrants missing after boat capsizes between Italy and Tunisia

More than 400 migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday, Italian media reported, as authorities in Sicily again blocked a rescue boat from leaving port.

400 migrants land on Lampedusa as rescue ship blocked

Italy's new government allowed a French charity ship to head to the island of Lampedusa on Saturday and bring ashore some 82 migrants, reversing the uncompromising, closed-door policy of the previous administration.

In break with past, Rome lets charity ship head to Italian port

Migrants are human beings who symbolise all those rejected by globalisation, Pope Francis told a special mass on Monday, saying "the weakest and most vulnerable must be helped".

Pope Francis says migrants symbol of 'all who are rejected by globalisation'

Migrants disembarked a rescue boat in the Italian port of Lampedusa early on Sunday (July 7) after the vessel became the second in a week to breach a ban on docking in the country.

Migrants disembark in Lampedusa port

A charity rescue vessel on Saturday brought 41 shipwrecked migrants into port in Lampedusa, the second boat to defy far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's bid to close Italian ports to them.

Migrant rescue sailboat defies Italy's Salvini, docks in Italy

Dozens of migrants stuck on a ship since their rescue in the Mediterranean 10 days ago, will be allowed to disembark in Malta after four European countries agreed to take them in, Malta's prime minister said Saturday.

Rescued migrants allowed to disembark in Malta, go on to Europe: PM Joseph Muscat

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