Tag Archives: MEDITERRANEAN
Italian diplomat in KSA doubts claim coast guard ignored Syrian refugee boat’s SOS
:: The Italian ambassador to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday doubted the veracity of an audiotape that claims Italy refused to rescue 268 Syrian refugees who drowned when their boat capsized. The refugees, including 60 children, lost their lives 60 miles
Over 80 missing after migrant boat sinks off Libya: Survivors tell UNHCR
:: At least 80 migrants including women and children were missing after a boat sank off the Libyan coast, survivors told the UN’s refugee agency Monday, in the latest such tragedy. A total of 132 people had boarded an inflatable
Nearly 9,000 migrants rescued in Mediterranean over weekend: IOM
Nearly 9,000 mainly African migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean this past long weekend after being put by smugglers in Libya onto unseaworthy boats heading toward Italy, UN aid agencies said on Tuesday. The migrants, many from Nigeria and Senegal
Nearly 180 dead after Saturday’s Mediterranean ship capsize: UN
Four people died and nearly 180 are missing, presumed dead, after Saturday’s migrant ship capsize in the Mediterranean, officials said on Tuesday after interviewing a handful of survivors. Humanitarian workers from International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN refugee
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. The migrants were on rubber boats and other small vessels, it said in a statement.
Record 137,000 migrants crossed Mediterranean
A record 137,000 people made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe in the first half of 2015, most of them fleeing war, conflict and persecution, the United Nations said Wednesday. “Europe is living through a maritime refugee crisis
EU opens door to 20,000 migrants
The European Union’s executive proposed on Wednesday taking in 20,000 migrants over two years and distributing them across Europe, a plan Britain, one of its largest members, has already opted out of. Shocked by thousands of deaths among people trying
Dozens feared dead in new Mediterranean migrant tragedy
The Save the Children aid group reported another Mediterranean migrant tragedy Tuesday, with survivors saying “dozens” of their fellow passengers fell out of their rubber boat and likely drowned as a rescue vessel neared. Save the Children’s Giovanna di Benedetto
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