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Police check a fishing boat with some 500 migrants in the southern Italian port of Crotone, early Saturday, March 11, 2023. The Italian coast guard was responding to three smugglers boats carrying more than 1,300 migrants “in danger” off Italy’s southern coast, officials said Friday. Three small coast guard boats were rescuing a boat with 500 migrants about 700 miles off the Calabria region, which forms the toe of the Italian boot. (AP Photo/Valeria Ferraro)

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Italy's coast guard, navy, bring hundreds of migrants ashore
By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press
Sat,03/11/23-8:12AM , 72 Reads
ROME (AP) — Italian coast guard and navy vessels on Saturday ferried hundreds of rescued migrants toward shore, while elsewhere in the Mediterranean Sea thousands of migrants overflowed from a shelter on a tiny tourist island.
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Pakistani-born Iram Aslam, 29, peeks through the window of a local social activities center in Guastalla, northern Italy, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, during an interview with The Associated Press. She recounted how she angered her family by refusing a marriage, decided at her birth, to a cousin in Pakistan. Courageous refusal by young immigrant women in Italy to submit to forced marriages sometimes carries a deadly price. In two murder trials this month, Italian prosecutors are seeking justice for Pakistani immigrant women allegedly killed because they refused marriages imposed by their parents. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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'Love doesn't exist': Immigrants defy forced marriage abroad
By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press
Mon,02/27/23-1:21AM , 40 Reads
GUASTALLA, Italy (AP) — From the day of her birth in Pakistan, Iram Aslam was betrothed to a cousin 17 days older. But to the young woman, who emigrated as a teenager to this Italian farm town on the Po River plain, the cousin felt like a brother.
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Rescuers recover a body after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas, at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Rescue officials say an undetermined number of migrants have died and dozens have been rescued after their boat broke apart off southern Italy. (AP Photo/Giuseppe Pipita)

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Migrant boat breaks up off Italian coast, killing nearly 60
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Sun,02/26/23-2:09AM , 54 Reads
ROME (AP) — A wooden boat crowded with migrants smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart before dawn Sunday off the Italian coast, authorities said. Rescuers recovered nearly 60 bodies, and dozens more people were missing in the rough waters.
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In this picture taken from a video released by Italian Carabinieri on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, top Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, center, leaves an Italian Carabinieri barrack soon after his arrest at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after 30 years on the run, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. (Carabinieri via AP)

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Fugitive's arrest like a 'quake,' but Mafia very resilient
By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press
Wed,01/18/23-1:17AM , 52 Reads
ROME (AP) — Matteo Messina Denaro's long record as a killer — turncoat mobsters said he'd boast of enough murders to fill a cemetery — greatly burnished his credentials among his peers as a major boss in the Sicilian Mafia.
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