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I witnessed an emergency call out on Mediterranean Sea - here's what it was like

MOHAMMAD*, a young Syrian man of 24, climbs the steps of the ship. He has bright and tired eyes, looks around, and after the first few steps on…

The National (Scotland)

Three Spaniards, Three Afghans Killed In Shooting In Afghanistan

The bodies of three Spanish tourists and three Afghans shot dead while visiting a market in Afghanistan were transported to the capital where multiple wounded were also treated, the Taliban government said Saturday.

International Business Times

EU policies partly to blame for 3,000 deaths in Mediterranean last year, say rights groups

Rescue organisations warn decree requiring their boats to return directly to a given port – often far away – prevents them from helping others in distress

The Guardian - UK

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‘I was willing to risk it all, or die’: a week onboard a rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea

Thousands of people die each year crossing the world’s most dangerous migration route to Europe. Yet many of those rescued from the waves say they would do it all again

The Guardian - UK

Boat carrying 500 migrants disappears off Libya

A boat carrying about 500 migrants, including a newborn baby and pregnant women, has disappeared in the central Mediterranean.

The New Daily

Migrants who tried to cross Mediterranean brought back to Libya, U.N. says

Nearly 500 migrants who tried to cross the central Mediterranean have been brought back to Libya, a spokesman for the U.N. migration agency said on Friday, two days after charity groups lost contact with the boat carrying them.

Reuters

About 500 onboard boat in distress in Mediterranean, NGO says

NGO Emergency says Maltese authorities so far failed to heed calls for a rescue as boat takes on water in bad weather.

Al Jazeera

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Italian NGO Rescues 105 Migrants Off Libyan Coast

The Italian maritime rescue NGO Emergency rescued 105 people who were adrift in international waters off the coast of Libya in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The NGO’s vessel ‘Life Support’ has set course for the port of Brindisi, on Italy’s southeast coast, where it is scheduled to dock…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Emergency alerts were delayed during south-east Queensland's flood disaster, report finds

An independent review finds Brisbane City Council was one of the last to issue a warning through the national emergency alert system, but the Lord Mayor says residents had been informed in other ways.

ABC News

A long night for doctors helping victims of Afghanistan quake

Medics are left overwhelmed and under-equipped in the wake of Afghanistan’s deadliest earthquake in decades.

Al Jazeera

Woman, 50s, dead and two other injured after getting into difficulty swimming off Wicklow coast

Gardaí and emergency services responded to a call-out at North Beach, Greystones, at around 12.30pm after three women aged in their 50s were reported to have gotten into difficulty whilst swimming

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