Emigration from Italy rose by nearly a third last year to 79,000, with a growing number of young people choosing to leave the crisis-hit country, Italian media reported on Sunday, citing official data. The number of Italian citizens registering as foreign residents rose from 61,000 in 2011. Most of the emigrants came from wealthier regions of northern Italy and their favoured destinations were Germany, Switzerland and Britain.

A new national poll in the United States has revealed broad support for the legal status of Caribbean and other immigrants but not broad support for their US citizenship. The survey, conducted by the Washington-based Pew Research Center,showed that a significant number of Americans say that illegal immigrants should be permitted to remain in the country legally, but fewer than half say they should be allowed to apply for US citizenship. The survey also finds that improving the US economy appears to have reduced opposition to immigration, both legal and illegal, with nearly half

Turkey, on a renewed push to join the EU, has adopted a long-awaited law to regulate migration and asylum in a move hailed Friday by the European bloc. The country, which bridges Europe and Asia, is hosting up to 400,000 refugees escaping conflict in neighbouring Syria and is under pressure to regulate their legal status at a time when it is bent on relaunching stalled EU entry talks. Turkey is also a major transit point for illegal immigrants crossing into Europe via Greece, and the bill -- first introduced last May -- seeks to fine-tune its dysfunctional refugee system.

Mexico City, Apr 1 (EFE).- Mexico received $1.58 billion in remittances in February, 11.1 percent below the amount recorded in the same month of 2012, the country's central bank said Monday. This was the eighth straight month in which remittances declined on an inter-annual basis. In the second month of 2013, the average remittance was $293.17, less than the $320.34 in February of 2012, the Bank of Mexico said in its monthly report. In February, 5.4 million transactions were recorded, most of them electronic transfers.