Word: lampedusa
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...blue-and-white Somali flag. But until now, the full story of this journey has not been told. Just about every night, one or more boats like Abdi Salan's try to navigate the 275-km-wide stretch of sea between Libya and Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, which has become the preferred crossing point for thousands of Africans trying to reach Europe. Italy's 7,600-km-long coastline is the European Union's most porous border. It's also the most perilous to reach. Over the past decade, thousands of would-be immigrants are believed to have...
...regularity of would-be immigrants dying. On Friday, Italian leaders and ordinary citizens alike turned out for a special memorial service in Rome, capping a week of anguish after 13 still-unidentified Somalis were found dead from exposure in the hull of a fishing boat off the coast of Lampedusa, a small island south of Sicily. Accounts from survivors indicated that as many as 60 other Somalis had died on the journey, which began on the Libyan coast on Oct. 3. Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu, who estimated that several hundred people have died this year in the waters between North...
...victims, three additional boatloads of arrivals from Africa were intercepted last week near Lampedusa. - By Jeff Israely A Turn to the Right switzerland The nationalist Swiss People's Party won about 27% of the vote in the country's general elections, leading it to ask for a second seat in the seven-member federal cabinet, to be chosen on Dec. 10. The anti-immigration party's gains came in Switzerland's French- and Italian-speaking cantons and at the expense of center-right parties. Coughing Up for Iraq SPAIN Having pledged $20 billion toward reconstruction in Iraq...