In this photo taken on Sunday May 3, 2020, a buoy floats in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. Preliminary results from a survey of seawater quality during Italy’s coronavirus lockdown indicate a sharp ...

Factions in Italy's government seek to restrict humanitarian organizations aiding migrants. The latest move involves preventing aircraft operations from some Mediterranean islands. Italy's civil ...

MILAN (AP) — Italy’s new far-right-led government has blocked humanitarian rescue ships from accessing its ports, resulting in a standoff with charities that patrol the deadly central Mediterranean, ...

Italy has allowed 10 rescued migrants on the Sea-Watch 3 to leave the vessel. Two pregnant women and two sick men are among those who have been given permission to disembark. Italian Interior Minister ...

The Italian far-right deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini has called an NGO boat a "pirate ship," stating the 43 rescued migrants aboard should go to The Netherlands and Germany. NGO Sea-Watch is ...

ROME — Two Italian ports faced an influx of hundreds of migrants Saturday, as a charity ship sailed toward a Sicilian port with 236 people rescued in the Mediterranean from traffickers’ boats, while ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy said on Friday it would close a sea rescue mission that has saved the lives of more than 100,000 migrants from Africa and the Middle East, a move one rights group warned could ...

Update: (June 27, 2019) – As of 5:30pm local time, Italian authorities were still blocking the Sea Watch 3 from docking at the Lampedusa port, over 24 hours after they entered Italian waters. A tweet ...

The joy of visiting Italy can be experienced by sea, with cruise ships bringing passengers to or near such sights as Rome's Colosseum and St. Peter's Basilica (from the port city of Civitavecchia), ...