A French Education Minister Who Knows Immigrants Struggles
���It is not surprising that they are impervious to republican values.��� Ms. Vallaud-Belkacem has for some time been considered one of the rising stars of the countrys governing Socialist Party. Today, as France looks to its schools to help heal.
500 Feared Dead as Migrant Boat Sinks Off Malta - NBC News
An estimated 500 migrants died when their boat sank while making the desperate sea crossing from North Africa to Europe, officials said Monday. According to.
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The extreme danger faced by migrants crossing the Mediterranean in small, rickety vessels was highlighted earlier today when a boat carry as many as 700 capsized, resulting in possibly the largest mass drowning since the migrant crisis began. ���These are men and women like us who seek a better life,��� he said.. Hundreds of people are feared to have drowned after a boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, the Italian coastguard says.
700 feared dead as migrant boat capsizes off Libya - RT.com
A few days earlier, almost 400 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean as their boat carrying 550 people bound for Italy capsized approximately 24 hours after leaving Libya. The flow of migrants. Not quite, Australia had a terrible problem with hundreds of boats arriving at their shores full of economic migrants andnot refugees, from mostlly Sri Lanka and Asia. People that did not. USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa.. the list goes on. These were all��.
300 migrants feared drowned in new Mediterranean boat.
More than 300 migrants are feared drowned after their overcrowded dinghies sank in the Mediterranean, triggering calls for the world to act after the latest boat disaster on the perilous crossing from Africa to Europe.. The Sierra Leone-flagged Ezadeen vessel, carrying hundreds of migrants, is towed by the Icelandic Coast Guard vessel Tyr in rough seas in the Mediterranean sea off Italys south coast January 2, 2015. REUTERS/Icelandic Coast Guard/Handout��.
More Than 4200 Migrants Rescued From Mediterranean Sea in 5 Days
LAMPEDUSA, Italy ��� A record-setting surge in migrants trying to reach Europe by making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea has led to 4,200 being rescued in just five days ��� the equivalent of more than one every two minutes. The.
Police: Muslim migrants threw Christians overboard
Italian police arrested 15 Muslim migrants who survivors said tossed 12 Christians from a boat during a recent Mediterranean crossing attempt. In a separate incident, 41 migrants were feared drowned as the situation in the region intensifies. The.
Trial Opens in Deaths of 2 French Teenagers Fleeing the Police in 2005
PARIS ��� A decade ago, two teenagers were electrocuted when they hid in a transformer at an electrical substation while running from the police. Their deaths set off a wave of unrest that plunged the French suburbs into chaos. Now, two police officers.
Election 2015 live: Dont treat people as if they are stupid, Clegg tells.
More from Frances Perraudin who is reporting from Portsmouth where Nick Clegg has been speaking today... David Cameron must take some of the blame for the deaths of hundreds of African migrants in the Mediterranean because of his ���fanaticism��� in.
The Guardian view on the Mediterranean boat people: Europe cannot evade its.
Greek coast guard officer in a mask for fear of infectious disease stands beside a small group of immigrants on a launch taking them to shore from a crippled smuggling ship carrying more than 700 people, at the coastal Cretan port of Ierapetra.
20 migrants with severe burn injuries rescued at sea, part of unprecedented.
Gambian migrant Mustafa Drammich waves as he waits to enter in the immigrant reception center Oasi Don Bosco, which opened today in a former hotel to host over 100 migrants in Canicattini Bagni, near. (Associated. Fridays rescue comes after the.
700 migrants feared drowned, traffickers deliberately sink.
Two survivors brought to Sicily told us that there had been at least 500 people on board. Nine other. They added that the boat sank Wednesday after a group of human traffickers rammed it with another boat as the asylum seekers refused to transfer to another vessel which they feared was too small. After the boat sank, both. the UNHCR said. The Geneva-based organization has called on the EU to strengthen search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
300 migrants feared dead in Mediterranean crossing |
By Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY. ���These smuggling networks act with virtual impunity and hundreds are dying. The world must act.���. Hearses queue for bodies of 300 migrants feared drowned in latest Mediterranean crossing horror.
Hundreds of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean this week
If confirmed, the estimated death toll means that more than 400 migrants have died in the Mediterranean since the start of the year, an unusually high number that far surpasses the equivalent figure from 2014. By this time last year, 27 migrants had.
Italian Coast Guard Rescues Nearly 1000 Migrants Near Sicily; 10 Migrants.
ROME (AP) ��� In dramatic sea rescues north of Libya, a flotilla of ships saved more than 1,000 migrants and refugees, while 10 migrants perished in the southern Mediterranean, Italian officials said Wednesday. Rescue vessels. For months now.
As many as 700 migrants feared drowned in Mediterranean.
GENEVA ��� More than 700 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East may have drowned in shipwrecks in the Mediterranean over the last week, bringing the death toll this year to nearly 3000, the International Organization for Migration said Monday. In the worst. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres (right) and U.S. actress and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie (center) visit the Armed Forces of Malta operations centre in Luqa, outside Valletta.
H5N1: 700 migrants feared dead in Mediterranean shipwreck
A major rescue operation is under way in the Mediterranean after as many as 700 migrants are feared to have drowned just outside Libyan waters, in what could prove to be the worst disaster yet involving migrants being��.
Call for rethink on rescue missions
Labour has called for the UK Government to reverse its immoral withdrawal of support for search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean as an emergency EU meeting was called in the wake of the latest migrant tragedy. Close to 700 are feared drowned .
Hundreds Feared Dead After Migrants Boats Sink in Mediterranean
ROME���Hundreds of migrants to Europe may have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in recent days, bringing the number of victims so far this year to more than four times last years total, the International Organization of Migration said on Monday. About.
400 Migrants Feared Drowned Off Libya, According to Aid.
About 400 migrants, including children, are feared drowned after a ship capsized during an attempt to reach Italy from Libya, a childrens advocacy group said Tuesday. Approximately 150 survivors were rescued from the��.
Mary Dejevsky: Lets be honest about immigration
When you hear on the news that ���about 400 migrants are feared to have drowned when their boat capsized���, is there not something that jars? Of course there is. It is the hypocrisy wrapped up in the word ���feared���. The response of many people listening, .
Up to 700 feared dead after migrant boat sinks off Libya.
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) ��� As many as 700 people were feared dead after a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight, in what may be one of the worst disasters of the Mediterranean migrant crisis, officials said on Sunday. Twenty eight people. In 2013, the previous government initiated the search-and-rescue operation ���Mare Nostrum��� or ���Our Sea��� after hundreds drowned in an incident off the coast of Lampedusa. The operation was��.
Libya migrants feared drowned off Libyan coast | World.
ABOUT 400 migrants have drowned after their boat capsized while trying to reach Italy from Libya, survivors have told Save the Children.. Hundreds of migrants - including children - feared drowned off Libyan coast. ABOUT 400 migrants have. The death toll for migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Africa this year was already at 500 - a sharp increase from 47 in the same period in 2014, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said. The number of��.
Hundreds of migrants feared drowned in Mediterranean
Hundreds of migrants were feared dead Sunday after a boat carrying up to 700 people capsized north of Libya, raising fears it could be the deadliest migrant disaster in the Mediterranean Sea. Only a few dozen people had been rescued in what Maltese .
Mediterranean migrant boat shipwrecks highlight need for.
15 September 2014, 00:00 UTC. European leaders must do more to provide safe and legal ways for refugees and migrants to access international protection in the European Union, Amnesty International said today after a boat bound for Italy sank off the coast of Libya leaving many feared drowned.. Reports indicate that another two boats may have sunk in recent days in the Central Mediterranean, resulting in several hundred drownings.According to the UNHCR,��.
African migrants hope of reaching Europe dashed
MISRATA - Some 260 African migrants intent on reaching Europe, even at the risk of a boat journey similar to one feared to have cost hundreds of lives this week, awaited their fate Wednesday on the Libyan coast.. food and sanitary conditions. The UN.
Hundreds more migrants feared drowned in the.
Hundreds more migrants feared drowned in the Mediterranean. 04/19/2015. Hundreds feared dead after fishing boat smuggling migrants sinks in the Mediterranean pic.twitter.com/n2cDFSY2JZ. ��� Agence France-Presse (@AFP) April 19, 2015. you and even if you dont purchase any of the books displayed here. Please consider supporting War in Context by making a recurring donation -- select one of the rates from the pulldown form below -- or offering a one-time donation today.
AP News in Brief at 5:58 pm EDT
MILAN ��� The feared drowning of 400 migrants in a shipwreck this week in the Mediterranean Sea ��� one of the deadliest such tragedies in the last decade ��� raised alarms Wednesday amid an unprecedented wave of migration toward Europe from Africa and.
Pope urges world to act after new Mediterranean tragedy.
Pope Francis on Sunday urged world leaders to respond ���decisively��� after 700 migrants were feared drowned in the deadliest migrant shipwreck yet in the Mediterranean. ���These are men and women like us, brothers seeking��.
Hundreds of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean this week
More than 300 migrants are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean this week, raising further concerns about the logic and morality of Europes decision to downsize maritime rescue operations last autumn. Four rubber dinghies, each carrying up to 100 west. Most popular in US... international community. I ask you simply to find Mr Morrisons response to the report today and reflect on whether this government would be in any way interested in my thoughts.
Tunisia, bridging the gulf
The Libyan coast is in the hands of militias who are complicit in pushing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants across the Mediterranean towards the shores of southern Italy; many drown before reaching their destination. Libya is. Tunisia is.
700 MIGRANTS FEARED DEAD AS BOAT CAPSIZES.
The shipwreck may be one of the worst disasters of the Mediterranean migrant crisis, and follows the feared drowning of more than 400 in two separate incidents on the sea earlier this week. A rescue operation coordinated by the Italian coast. The fishing vessel involved in todays disaster had send out an emergency call after having trouble with steering the vessel, and a Portuguese merchant ship arrived at the scene. However, as it approached, dozens of people��.