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The Dutch subsidiary Sea-Watch 3 has received permission to leave Italy. That reports the Italian Coast Guard.

The ship Sea-Watch 3, which picked up migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, has received permission from the Coast Guard of the Sicilian city of Catania to the port of the southern French city of Marseille.

The rescue ship for migrants Sea Watch 3 will stay on for two weeks at the port of Catania in Sicily. This is done at the request of the Netherlands, says the Italian...

The controversial vessel Sea-Watch 3 is not allowed to sail the Sicilian port of Catania for the time being because 'irregularities' have been detected on the boat during an inspection. This has the Coast Guard...

Averij has delayed the departure of the controversial ship the Sea-Watch 3 to a port of Sicily. The vessel with 47 migrants on board was struggling with the anchor causing the voyage...

The Italian government allocates 10 million euros for first aid in the Catania region in Sicily. The Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte has announced this via Twitter. The region is heavy...

The rumbling volcano Etna has caused a relatively heavy earthquake in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.

After the sudden eruption of Mount Etna on Monday, it is still uneasy around the mountain. There are hundreds of light and some heavier earthquakes registered around the mountain in Sicily.

A sudden eruption of Mount Etna has messed up air traffic on Sicily on Monday afternoon. The airport of Catania was closed as a precaution for incoming and outgoing flights.

A Ikea subsidiary on the Italian island of Sicilia houses stray dogs that are part of the retail decor.

The east of Sicily was hit by a small earthquake in the night from Friday to Saturday. Because of the quake with a force of 4.8, residents of the volcano were startled by Etna. Buildings suffered limited damage and several people were slightly injured.

The African migrants who had to stay on board a ship in the port of Catania for over a week were detained in Libya for two years by smugglers. They were beaten, tortured and raped there before they made the crossing to Europe, reports the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations.

The maritime health authorities in the Italian city of Catania (Sicily) have ordered that sixteen passengers on the Italian coast guard vessel Diciotti should be immediately brought ashore. It concerns eleven women and five men. Two of them may have tuberculosis, Italian media reports.

The UN refugee organization wants EU countries to make reception places available for around 150 rescued people on board an Italian coastguard ship. The UNHCR also calls on the Italian government to immediately dispose of the migrants concerned.

Dozens of young migrants have after a few days left the Italian coast guard ship in the port of Catania. The nearly thirty minors left the ship from Wednesday to Thursday, reports Italian media. The adults must stay on board.

Italy only wants to include the children on board the Italian coast guard ship that has been in Catania with 177 refugees since Monday. That is what the Minister of Home Affairs Matteo Salvini said on a Facebook video on Wednesday evening. The other of the 177 migrants are not allowed to leave the ship. According to aid organizations, there are about thirty minors on the ship.

An Italian coast guard ship with 177 rescued migrants on board has arrived in the port of Catania. However, migrants are only allowed to disembark if other EU member states are prepared to receive them, say sources within the Ministry of the Interior against ANSA news agency.

The Italian and French governments have come into full collision about the floundering immigrants. Rome demands apologies from Paris. As long as this does not happen, the diplomatic crisis continues. The Italian Minister of Economic Affairs Giovanni Tria has canceled his trip to Paris to meet his colleague. Prime Minister Conte also plans to cancel his trip to Paris where he would meet French President Macron.

An Italian coast guard ship with more than nine hundred migrants on board has arrived in Italy. This happened a few days after the country had closed the ports for the rescue ship Aquarius, which had more than six hundred migrants on board. That vessel is now on its way to Spain.

An explosion in a house in Catania in Sicily killed three people. According to the Italian news agency ANSA, two firefighters and a man who were in the home in the historic city center were among the dead.

Over the past few days, around 7000 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea have been saved. Already on Friday, the shipwreck Diciotti shipwrecked nearly 1500 rescued refugees to the port of Catania in Sicily, reported ANSA press agency.

The Italian authorities have deployed a Tunisian suspected of being linked to the victim of the Christmas bombing in Berlin in December 2016. The Italian Ministry of the Interior said on Saturday.

Around 8,500 boat people rescued this weekend during various operations from the sea. Reported that the Italian broadcaster RAI. By initially peaceful again a record number of migrants trying to make the crossing from Libya to Italy.

The chief prosecutor of the port city of Catania in Sicily is hard lashed out at organizations that rescue migrants with their own ships to the coast of Libya. They would play smugglers in the map.

Aboard a rescue ship on the Mediterranean is a baby into this world. The organization SOS Mediterranee, which saved the Nigerian parents of the girl with nearly a thousand other migrants from the sea, on Tuesday announced the special birth. The baby is doing well and has been named Mercy (grace).

Mount Etna in Sicily is active again. The highest volcano in Europe with its 3330 meters began Monday on the southeastern side to emit a lava flow.

The sister of terror suspect Anis Amri does not understand how it is that he is wanted for the bloody act of terror in Berlin. 'Anis was not religious. He finished fourth party, listened to pop music. '

The Dutch coast guard plane patrols performing above the Mediterranean on Wednesday found a ship carrying migrants in distress. That feed at that time off the coast of the Italian Catania.

In a large Italian police operation are Wednesday over a hundred suspected mafia members arrested. They are suspected of extortion and drug trafficking, among others, the police said.