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MEDITERRANEAN

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May 26, 2017
2,300 migrants rescued in Mediterranean, two die
Rescuers saved around 2,300 migrants from rubber and wooden boats in the central Mediterranean on Thursday, but also recovered two dead bodies, the Italian coast guard said.
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May 15, 2017
Italy rescues 484 migrants, finds seven dead as calls mount to secure south Libya
Rescuers saved 484 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Saturday and found the bodies of seven men who had died in the attempt to get to Europe, Italy's coast guard said.
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Jan 13, 2017
800 migrants rescued off six rubber boats as Libyan traffickers exploit weather window
Some 800 migrants were plucked from flimsy rubber boats on Thursday, Italy's coast guard said, as Libya-based people smugglers took advantage of a window of good midwinter weather to send them to sea.
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Sep 28, 2016
Death toll up to 202 as Egypt finds 33 more corpses while salvaging sunken migrant boat
Thirty-three bodies were recovered on Tuesday as the wreck of boat that sank off Egypt last week with hundreds of migrants aboard was lifted from the depths, raising the confirmed death toll to 202, a local official said.
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Aug 31, 2016
Italy rescues 3,000 more migrants in Mediterranean as arrivals surge
Some 3000 migrants were saved in the Strait of Sicily in 30 separate rescue missions on Tuesday, the Italian coast guard said, bringing the total to almost 10,000 in two days and marking a sharp acceleration in refugee arrivals in Italy.
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Aug 1, 2016
July saw over 120 migrant bodies wash up on shores of Libya's Sabratha
More than 120 bodies of migrants who died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe have washed up around Sabratha in western Libya this month, the city's mayor said on Sunday.
WORLD / Society
Jul 6, 2016
Italy rescues 4,500 migrants in Mediterranean after seas calm
Some 4,500 migrants were rescued from rubber dinghies and a wooden boat in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, Italy's coast guard said, as the sea calmed after a rough weekend.
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WORLD
Jun 29, 2016
France sends data files from crashed EgyptAir jet's repaired black box back to Egypt
Data files from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 were sent to Egypt on Tuesday after one of the plane's black box flight recorders was repaired in France, bringing investigators closer to explaining the doomed jet's fate.
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Jun 14, 2016
USS 'Ike' adds second carrier group to Mediterranean amid Russia expansion
The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower entered the Mediterranean late on Monday, the U.S. Navy said, at a time when U.S. officials are raising alarm over Russia's maritime expansion.
WORLD
Jun 7, 2016
U.N. urged to allow EU to search boats for illicit arms off Libya
Britain on Monday proposed expanding a United Nations Security Council mandate for a European naval operation to allow it to crack down on arms smuggling in the high seas off war-torn Libya, though Russia voiced concerns about the idea.
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Jun 3, 2016
Lawless Libya fertile ground for smugglers routing vulnerable migrants into Mediterranean unprotected
After a flurry of boat departures that sent hundreds of migrants to their deaths in the Mediterranean, survivors told police they had been kept for weeks on one meal a day in holding houses near the Libyan shore.
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Jun 3, 2016
At least 85 drowned migrants found on Libya's shores
The bodies of at least 85 migrants who drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean were found washed up on beaches in western Libya near the city of Zuwara on Thursday, a Red Crescent official said.
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May 13, 2016
Italy coast guard rescues nearly 900 Syrians, Iraqis who sailed from Egypt
Italy's coast guard rescued nearly 900 mostly Syrian refugees from two boats off western Sicily on Thursday, a coast guard spokesman said, amid signs that refugees from the Middle East are increasingly shunning the Greek route into Europe.
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Apr 28, 2016
Italy hits Austria plan to build Brenner border fence as Mediterranean migrant flow resumes
Austria outlined plans on Wednesday to erect a fence at a border crossing with Italy that is a vital link between Northern and Southern Europe, escalating a standoff between the two states over how to handle a migration crisis.
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Jan 27, 2016
Italy reports single-day rescue of over 1,200 boat migrants off Libya
Italy's coast guard said on Tuesday it had coordinated the rescue of 1,271 migrants from rubber and wooden boats in several operations off the coast of Libya.
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Dec 4, 2015
Mediterranean migrant flow resumes; 2,000 rescued en route to Italy
Rescuers pulled almost 2,000 migrants from 11 boats that were attempting to cross the Mediterranean and reach Italy, the Italian coast guard said on Thursday.
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Sep 24, 2015
Refugees swarm Greece's Lesbos island ahead of fall weather
More than 2,500 mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees, soaked and exhausted, reached the Greek island of Lesbos within hours on Wednesday, a sharp rise in the rate of arrivals via the dangerous sea crossing from Turkey.
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Sep 24, 2015
Refugees swarm Greece's Lesbos island ahead of fall weather
More than 2,500 mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees, soaked and exhausted, reached the Greek island of Lesbos within hours on Wednesday, a sharp rise in the rate of arrivals via the dangerous sea crossing from Turkey.
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Aug 19, 2015
Europe braces for threefold migrant surge; Italy nabs eight alleged traffickers tied to deaths
More than three times as many migrants were tracked entering the European Union by irregular means last month than a year ago, official data showed on Tuesday, many of them landing on Greek islands after fleeing conflict in Syria.
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Jul 8, 2015
Italy holds funeral service for first migrant victims of deadliest shipwreck in recent history
Italy held a funeral service on Tuesday for 13 migrants who died in the worst shipwreck in the Mediterranean in recent history, while the navy continued its search for other victims of the disaster.

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