Migrants overwhelm Italian island; islanders launch protest

ROME (AP) — The arrivals of hundreds of migrants crammed into a rickety fishing boat has worsened the severe overcrowding at shelters on a tiny Italian island in the Mediterranean. It also triggered an angry demonstration by islanders and a vow by the mayor on Sunday to call a protest strike. While tensions grew on the island of Lampedusa, another migrant drama was reported. RAI state TV said a fire broke out on a migrant boat off the coast of Calabria, on the mainland, just as the passeng