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At least 200 migrants have been rescued from the central Mediterranean Sea in the past two days. The migrants were fleeing Libya when they were picked up by two humanitarian aid ships, Geo Barents and Mare Jonio.
Sea-Watch 3 has vowed to return to sea and rescue migrants after a five-month detainment in a Sicilian port by Italian authorities. Two other rescue boats, Alex and the Mare Jonio, are still being held.
defenceWeb Written by Reuters - 51 A rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) of the Italian Finance Police patrols near the Mare Jonio, operated by Italian charity Mediterranea Saving Humans, and the German NGO Sea-Eye migrant rescue ship 'Alan Kurdi' (unseen). - Reuters Fifteen boats packed with hundreds of migrants landed on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday, and officials said they were expecting numbers to increase as the weather improved. More than 1 400 people got off the vessels at the Mediterranean island, one of the main landing points for people trying to get into Euro...
Five boats carrying hundred of migrants land in Italy's Lampedusa - reports Reuters 2 hrs ago © Reuters/DARRIN ZAMMIT LUPI FILE PHOTO: A RHIB of the Italian Finance Police patrols near the Mare Jonio, operated by Italian charity Mediterranea Saving Humans, and the German NGO Sea-Eye migrant rescue ship 'Alan Kurdi' of the Italian island of Lampedusa MILAN (Reuters) -Five boats carrying hundred of migrants landed in Lampedusa after being intercepted by Italian authorities off the coast of the Mediterranean island, ANSA news agency reported on Sunday. © Reuters/GUGLIELMO MANGIAPANE FILE...
Italy investigates claims of wiretapping linked to migration reporting Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Angelo Carconi/EPA Italy’s justice minister is to send inspectors to Sicily following reports that prosecutors wiretapped hundreds of phone conversations involving at least 15 journalists reporting on migration in the central Mediterranean. The Italian newspaper Domani revealed on Friday that magistrates in Trapani who were investigating sea rescue NGOs and charities for alleged complicity in people smuggling had wiretapped reporters’ ph...