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New deaths put Italy on track for sombre migrant records
AFP, Published on 25/10/2016
» PALERMO (ITALY) - Italy's coastguard said Monday that another 16 people had died during operations in which 2,200 migrants were rescued off Libya, propelling both deaths at sea and the numbers arriving in Italy towards new highs.
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Haiti mourns hurricane dead as Matthew dwindles
AFP, Published on 09/10/2016
» PORT-AU-PRINCE - Haiti began three days of mourning Sunday for victims of Hurricane Matthew as relief officials grappled with the unfolding devastation in the Caribbean country's hard-hit south.
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6,500 migrants rescued off Libya - Italian coastguard
AFP, Published on 30/08/2016
» ROME - Around 6,500 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya, the Italian coastguard said, in one of its busiest days of life-saving in recent years.
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Cash for coupling
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 11/07/2016
» Marriages are made in heaven and there is someone special for everyone. So they say.
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MSF rejects EU funds over 'shameful' migrant policy
AFP, Published on 17/06/2016
» BRUSSELS - Aid group Doctors Without Borders said on Friday that it would no longer take funds from the EU in protest at its "shameful" policies on the migration crisis including a deal with Turkey.
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Over 100 feared dead in new migrant boat tragedies in Mediterranean
AFP, Published on 27/05/2016
» ROME - Over 100 migrants were feared dead Thursday after two crowded boats capsized off Libya in separate incidents, with one of the tragedies captured on video that shows dramatic rescues and desperate final moments.
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Hope fuels dreams of migrants on boat to Europe
AFP, Published on 27/05/2016
» ABOARD THE MS AQUARIUS (ITALY) - "This is five stars compared to what we have been through recently," says the teenager from the Ivory Coast.
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Migrant rescue mission scuttled by Customs
Published on 16/04/2016
» A charity that has rescued thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean and was preparing to do the same in the Andaman Sea has been scuttled by Thai Customs Department bureaucrats.
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Germany beefs up asylum rules as half a million cross Med
AFP, Published on 29/09/2015
» BERLIN - Germany toughened rules Tuesday for asylum seekers from the Balkans as Europe struggled to cope with a record surge in migrants, with those crossing the Mediterranean exceeding the half a million mark.
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More than 2,000 fishermen rescued
Associated Press, Published on 18/09/2015
» More than 2,000 fishermen have been rescued this year from brutal conditions at sea, their freedom prompted by an Associated Press investigation into seafood brought to the US from a slave island in eastern Indonesia.
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