Yearender: Europe struggles to fix migrant predicament

LAMPEDUSA, Italy, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- On a chilly Monday evening in late November, as the locals were enjoying a peaceful time, Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa was bracing for yet another bustling night.

Hundreds of migrants, many of them bare-footed and without warm clothes, had just survived an exhausting journey across the Mediterranean Sea after their departure from North Africa.

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