In an effort to prevent migrants from trying to cross the Mediterranean from Africa, the Italian government is trying out with a novel development-focused strategy. If the plan is successful, analysts say, could serve as a model for all of Europe. For VOA, Henry Wilkins reports from the Italian island of Lampedusa, where residents are welcoming the measure after thousands arrived there in a single week last year.
It is estimated that 23,000 refugee and migrant children arrived by sea to Greece, Italy and Spain in 2018, the vast majority fleeing conflict, extreme poverty and persecution
A man named Wojciech Janowski (65) is being accused of having handed over a large sum of money to have the wealthiest person in Monaco and one of the wealthiest in the world, Hélène Pastor, the mother of his companion, Sylvia Pastor (53), shot to death