| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - U.N. refugee agency, 8,400 migrants landed in Italy and Malta in the first six months of the year, almost double the 4,500 who arrived during the first half of 2012.</p><p>it is still a far cry from the tens of thousands who flooded to Italy, especially through Lampedusa, during the Arab Spring exodus of 2011.</p><p>The numbers, though, have spiked in recent weeks, particularly with Syrian arrivals
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