Six-year-old girl dies after arriving on Lampedusa
A six-year-old girl from Guinea has died in a Palermo hospital following a lengthy crossing with her mother from the African coast to Lampedusa.
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UK: Judge grants injunction to Epping council to have asylum seekers removed from hotel
The Epping Forest District Council just outside London has won a court case to have asylum seekers temporarily removed from a hotel, which has drawn protests for weeks after a resident asylum seeker was charged with sexual assault.1
UK reaches migrants return deal with Iraq
Britain has reached a new deal with the government of Iraq to allow for the return of irregular immigrants. The move is seen as part of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's overall strategy to discourage small boat crossings to the UK -- b1
10 caskets taken to Porto Empedocle after Lampedusa shipwrecks
Ten of the 27 bodies retrieved on August 13 following a double migrant shipwreck off Lampedusa reached Porto Empedocle on Tuesday, August 19. Meanwhile, new migrant landings were reported on Lampedusa.
After arrival in Salerno, migrants tested negative for smallpox
The 71 migrants who reached Salerno on August 14 and were quarantined over a suspected smallpox infection have all tested negative for the disease, local authorities said.