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27 Dead After Italy Migrant Shipwreck, Search Ops Underway
Italian authorities resumed their search Thursday for migrants missing at sea after two boats sank off the island of Lampedusa, with 27 people already confirmed dead.
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"Unable To Save Them": Fisherman Mourns After Italian Migrant Shipwreck
It was a Sunday that Italian fisherman Vincenzo Luciano will never forget. Well before dawn he ran to the beach near his house and started pulling bodies from the sea, victims of a deadly migrant shipwreck that has so far claimed 67 lives.
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Europe Braces For Over 150,000 Migrant Influx Due To Food Shortage
Mediterranean countries on major migrant routes into Europe expect over 150,000 arrivals this year as food shortages caused by the Ukraine conflict threaten a new migration wave from Africa and the Middle East.
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Nearly 100 Migrants "Still Floating In Mediterranean, Risk Drowning": UN
Libya Migrants: Around 100 migrants fleeing war-ravaged Libya have run into difficulty in the Mediterranean and could drown, the UN said Monday, urging a rapid rescue.
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Europe's Mediterranean Border 'By Far World's Deadliest' For Migrants: UN Report
More than 33,000 migrants have died at sea trying to reach European shores since 2000, making the Mediterranean "by far the world's deadliest border", the United Nations migration agency said on Friday.
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Newspaper Identifies 33,293 People Who Died Seeking Shelter In "Fortress Europe"
Four-month-old Syrian baby Faris Ali froze to death in a tent in Turkey, five-year-old Afghan Sajida Ali's body washed ashore after a shipwreck, and tiny Samuel drowned with his mother as she tried to reach Spain after leaving home in Congo.
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4-Day-Old Baby Rescued In The Mediterranean By Humanitarian Ship
The baby was travelling on one of two rubber boats carrying over 200 migrants and seen drifting some 22 nautical miles north of the Libyan town of Sabratha, the most frequently used departure point currently used by people smugglers in Libya.
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Hundreds Rescued In Mediterranean As Migrant Arrivals In Italy Outpace 2016
Rescuers plucked around 900 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Friday while hundreds more were brought to Sicily, as Italian figures showed far more people are braving the crossing from North Africa this year than last.
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UN Agency Raises Toll To 365 From Mediterranean Shipwrecks
The UN's migration watcher says it now believes 365 people died or are missing and presumed dead from Mediterranean shipwrecks in recent days.
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Around 100 Missing After Migrant Boat Capsize In Mediterranean
Around 100 people are missing feared drowned in the Mediterranean after a migrant dinghy capsized off Libya, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday, citing testimony from 27 survivors.
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Mediterranean Rescuers Save 550 Migrants At Sea, Recover Five Bodies
About 550 migrants, most of them from West Africa, were pulled to safety from boats in the Mediterranean on Monday in five operations during which rescuers also recovered five dead bodies, Italy's coast guard said.
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Rescuers Save 2,400 Migrants In Mediterranean, Recover 14 Bodies
Rescuers pulled 2,400 boat migrants to safety on Saturday, the Italian coastguard said, adding 14 dead bodies had been recovered in the past two days.
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Bodies Wash Up In Libya As Migrant Toll Climbs
The bodies of 120 migrants have washed up on the shores of Libya in the past 10 days, not from previously known shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said today.
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Nearly 3,000 Dead Already In Mediterranean This Year: Migration Organization
Nearly 3,000 migrants and refugees have already perished in the Mediterranean this year while almost 250,000 have reached Europe, the International Organization for Migration said today.
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First Russian Tourist Flight Since Crisis Lands In Turkish Resort
The first Russian charter flight carrying tourists to Turkey since a diplomatic crisis erupted eight months ago landed on Saturday in the Turkish Mediterranean resort of Antalya, the airport said.
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27 Dead After Italy Migrant Shipwreck, Search Ops Underway
Italian authorities resumed their search Thursday for migrants missing at sea after two boats sank off the island of Lampedusa, with 27 people already confirmed dead.
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"Unable To Save Them": Fisherman Mourns After Italian Migrant Shipwreck
It was a Sunday that Italian fisherman Vincenzo Luciano will never forget. Well before dawn he ran to the beach near his house and started pulling bodies from the sea, victims of a deadly migrant shipwreck that has so far claimed 67 lives.
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Europe Braces For Over 150,000 Migrant Influx Due To Food Shortage
Mediterranean countries on major migrant routes into Europe expect over 150,000 arrivals this year as food shortages caused by the Ukraine conflict threaten a new migration wave from Africa and the Middle East.
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Nearly 100 Migrants "Still Floating In Mediterranean, Risk Drowning": UN
Libya Migrants: Around 100 migrants fleeing war-ravaged Libya have run into difficulty in the Mediterranean and could drown, the UN said Monday, urging a rapid rescue.
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Europe's Mediterranean Border 'By Far World's Deadliest' For Migrants: UN Report
More than 33,000 migrants have died at sea trying to reach European shores since 2000, making the Mediterranean "by far the world's deadliest border", the United Nations migration agency said on Friday.
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Newspaper Identifies 33,293 People Who Died Seeking Shelter In "Fortress Europe"
Four-month-old Syrian baby Faris Ali froze to death in a tent in Turkey, five-year-old Afghan Sajida Ali's body washed ashore after a shipwreck, and tiny Samuel drowned with his mother as she tried to reach Spain after leaving home in Congo.
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4-Day-Old Baby Rescued In The Mediterranean By Humanitarian Ship
The baby was travelling on one of two rubber boats carrying over 200 migrants and seen drifting some 22 nautical miles north of the Libyan town of Sabratha, the most frequently used departure point currently used by people smugglers in Libya.
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Hundreds Rescued In Mediterranean As Migrant Arrivals In Italy Outpace 2016
Rescuers plucked around 900 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Friday while hundreds more were brought to Sicily, as Italian figures showed far more people are braving the crossing from North Africa this year than last.
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UN Agency Raises Toll To 365 From Mediterranean Shipwrecks
The UN's migration watcher says it now believes 365 people died or are missing and presumed dead from Mediterranean shipwrecks in recent days.
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Around 100 Missing After Migrant Boat Capsize In Mediterranean
Around 100 people are missing feared drowned in the Mediterranean after a migrant dinghy capsized off Libya, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday, citing testimony from 27 survivors.
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Mediterranean Rescuers Save 550 Migrants At Sea, Recover Five Bodies
About 550 migrants, most of them from West Africa, were pulled to safety from boats in the Mediterranean on Monday in five operations during which rescuers also recovered five dead bodies, Italy's coast guard said.
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Rescuers Save 2,400 Migrants In Mediterranean, Recover 14 Bodies
Rescuers pulled 2,400 boat migrants to safety on Saturday, the Italian coastguard said, adding 14 dead bodies had been recovered in the past two days.
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Bodies Wash Up In Libya As Migrant Toll Climbs
The bodies of 120 migrants have washed up on the shores of Libya in the past 10 days, not from previously known shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said today.
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Nearly 3,000 Dead Already In Mediterranean This Year: Migration Organization
Nearly 3,000 migrants and refugees have already perished in the Mediterranean this year while almost 250,000 have reached Europe, the International Organization for Migration said today.
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First Russian Tourist Flight Since Crisis Lands In Turkish Resort
The first Russian charter flight carrying tourists to Turkey since a diplomatic crisis erupted eight months ago landed on Saturday in the Turkish Mediterranean resort of Antalya, the airport said.
