The vast majority of migrant boats departed from North Africa, but increasing numbers have left from Turkey over the past two years, including some 16,000 in 2022 15% of all arrivals. The United Nations Missing Migrants Project has registered more than 20,000 deaths and disappearances in the central Mediterranean since 2014, including more than 220 this year, making it the most dangerous migrant route in the world.
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Italy s culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano has caused a stir with his claim that the poet Dante Alighieri was the founder of Italian right-wing thinking.