Gates of Vienna: Todays ���Camp of the Saints��� Update
While the boats keep crossing the Mediterranean to Lampedusa, Sicily, and Malta, the political ramifications of the crisis continue to unfold in Italy, France, and the bureaucratic labyrinth of the European Union. France is determined to prevent the.. Another boat carrying around a hundred illegal immigrants was intercepted this morning by the Financial Guard in the Ionian Sea, off the Calabrian coasts and taken to the port of Roccella Jonica. The migrants, whose��.
German interior ministers to speed up Kosovo migrants asylum requests
The ministers, however, did not reach an agreement on calling Kosovo a country free of political persecution. Such a label would means claims for asylum would no longer be necessary in Germany and migrants could be immediately sent back to Kosovo.
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Russian observers found the setup in Hanover highly suspicious: Putins security at home and abroad is usually so tight that there is no way to get so close to him. ���I know. Crossing the Mediterranean, boat capsizes with hundreds of African migrants. When crossing the Mediterranean to reach Italy from Libya, a boat with about 550 African migrants has capsized, the majority of who have drowned ��� survivors told Save the Children organisation on Tuesday, April 14.
Migrant Boat With Hundreds Aboard Capsizes in Mediterranean
An officer looks at a monitor showing ships navigating the area where the boat believed to be crowded with as many as 700 migrants capsized in waters north of Libya, in the operation room of the Coast Guard in Rome, April 19. Maltese officials said 28 .
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Its been more than a year since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 was lost with 239 people on board. Officials now say theyll. Hundreds Of African Migrants Feared Dead After Boat Capsizes In Mediterranean. Up to 400 migrants are.. NPRs Audie Cornish speaks with political commentators E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor for the National Review and columnist for Bloomberg View. They discuss Sen.
Gates of Vienna: Camp of the Saints: The Ones Who Didnt.
Fishing Boat With Migrants Rescued in Otranto, 130 on Board (AGI) Otranto. The Tunisian coastguard has taken 570 migrants to safety, but there are fears that another two hundred or so fell into the sea in the fight to get off the boat and may have drowned.. It ran aground on a sandbank some 19 nautical miles (36 kilometres) off the coast of the islands, and then capsized as people struggled to leave the boat to jump into the rescue vessels, the agency reported.
Huge surge in migrants entered EU in 2014: Frontex
Italian authorities said Wednesday that at least 10 more people died after a boat capsized off Sicily when the migrants aboard rushed to meet rescuers. An increasingly violent and chaotic situation in Libya, a key jumping off point for migrants, has.
Mexican drug smuggler sues U.S. over K-9 bite ~ The.
Dehydrated and feeling weary, Marino lay down beside another migrant under a tree and fell asleep. When he awoke, his arm was allegedly being mauled by a Border Patrol dog. Mexican drug smuggler sues U.S. over K-9��.
In break with PM, Mossad said to warn US against new Iran sanctions
The Mossad intelligence agency has warned US officials against a bill that would hit Iran with sanctions if the nuclear talks fail to secure an agreement by the June deadline, diverging sharply from the Israeli governments formal position, Bloomberg.
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Its been more than a year since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 was lost with 239 people on board. Officials now say theyll. Hundreds Of African Migrants Feared Dead After Boat Capsizes In Mediterranean. Up to 400 migrants are.. NPRs Audie Cornish speaks with political commentators E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor for the National Review and columnist for Bloomberg View. They discuss Sen.
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Every month poverty and persecution drive hundreds in north Africa and the Middle East to leave their homes and seek new lives.. The boat capsized. 359 drowned. Divers found bodies so tightly packed they never had a chance of escape. But many of those who set out by boat across the Mediterranean vanish without trace. Some will die rather than return to Tunisia.. HOW DOES THE DEVELOPED WORLD VIEW THE MIGRANTS HAMMERING ON ITS DOORS?
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A boat carrying perhaps as many as three hundred migrants capsized in heavy seas. Despite the efforts of three. two hundred are feared dead. Most of those on board came apparently from Somalia and Eritrea and couldnt swim ��� though given the high waves and Force 6 winds, its questionable how much this would have helped.. In the past fifteen years, at least five thousand people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. Lampedusa, around��.
The Terrorism Statistics Every American Needs to Hear.
Indeed, the leading cause of deaths for Americans traveling abroad is not terrorism, or murder ��� or even crime of any type. Its car crashes. In fact: With the exception of the Philippines, more Americans died from road crashes��.
700 feared dead in migrant shipwreck in Mediterranean.
Rome (AFP) - Seven hundred people are feared dead after a fishing boat packed with migrants trying to reach Europe capsized off Malta, the UNHCR said Sunday.
Judge allows British MI5 agents to wear wigs and make-up while giving.
British MI5 agents have been guaranteed they will remain international men of mystery after a New York judge ruled they could give evidence wearing wigs and make-up. Prosecutors in the case against Abid Naseer requested the disguises to protect the .
Dying at Europes Doorstep
The boats are whatever the smugglers can scrounge, and, in account after account, migrants report being ordered aboard, often at gunpoint, in unsafe numbers. More than a hundred will pile into a decrepit wooden fishing boat or a single rigid inflatable.
Migrant boat sinks off Libyan coast, claims lives
Several migrants have died after their boat capsized in the southern Mediterranean. Italys Coast. A Coast Guard vessel in the area - which was already carrying 318 people from an earlier rescue - managed to save most of the migrants on board. Ten.
Rebooting innovation in Japan
. introduced its first high-tech toilet. Since then, though, game-changing products have been difficult to come by. So is Japans innovation dead? We have been innovating great products but we are not good at marketing them abroad, says Mr Kameyama.
Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/23/2014 | Gates of Vienna
A boatload of illegal migrants capsized off the coast of Libya... Over a Hundred Migrants Missing After Boat Sinks Off Libyan Coast. Later, following inquiries from Bloomberg News, the FDA put the pages on its website.. (Reuters) ��� Authorities suspect around 130 people resident in Austria ��� most of them foreign nationals ��� have allied themselves with Islamist militants fighting abroad, officials in Vienna said on Friday, raising their estimate by nearly a third.
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/9/2013 | Gates of Vienna
Letta Says Italy Saved 1,800 Migrants But Needs More Help. �� Police in Italy Arrest Somalia National Accused of Organizing Deadly Migrant Voyage. Culture Wars. �� Croatia to Hold Referendum Against Same-Sex Unions.
Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/5/2015 | Gates of Vienna
In other news, ten migrants drowned off the coast of Sicily when their boat capsized. Hundreds of others were rescued by the Italian coast guard. To see the headlines and.. Ten Dead After Migrant Boat Capsizes Off Sicily.. ���Europe is duty-bound to work harder on the Mediterranean emergency, which cannot fall on the shoulders of just one country���.. A new Bloomberg report says that China might be working on blocking U.S. military communication from space.
Shipwreck Was Simple Murder, Migrants Recall
Today, the business of smuggling refugees and migrants across the Mediterranean into Europe has become a hugely profitable, if deadly, enterprise, with more than 3,000 people believed to have died so far this year. One United.. The Antarctica, a.
Gates of Vienna: Camp of the Saints: The Blame Game
Boat With 52 on Board Intercepted Near Apulia (AGI) Lecce ��� A boat. The rescue boats did not have the capacity to rescue all of the migrants from the stranded migrant boat and some people jumped into the water and others moved to one side of the migrant boat causing it to capsize.. He said Italy had to report Malta to the EU as he claimed the island was not doing its part to save the lives of hundreds of immigrants crossing its vast search and rescue area (SAR).
Italy: 29 migrants die of hypothermia crossing Mediterranean
MILAN (AP) ��� At least 29 migrants have died from hypothermia while traveling from North Africa to Italy aboard a smugglers life raft in heavy seas, amid a surge of migrants making the dangerous sea crossing despite the harsh winter conditions.
Hundreds of migrants missing in latest Mediterranean tragedy
The migrants had left Libya in at least three, perhaps four, rubber dinghies with no food or water, Sami said. The boats did not have motors powerful enough to face high waves and began to sink, she added. Because of the bad weather conditions, the.
City Link boss who axed staff says wed rather make cash than pay redundancy.
The Tory donor who left thousands facing the axe at Christmas wants taxpayers to pay them off as he is ���in the business of making money���. Jon Moulton, head of Better Capital, claimed yesterday there was no alternative to putting parcel firm City Link.
Human smugglers turn to cargo ships to ferry fleeing Syrians
Until recently, most migrants paid several hundred dollars for a trip aboard an old fishing boat, dinghy or speedboat. Hundreds of men, women and children perish every year in those voyages when their unseaworthy vessels capsize in stormy seas. The war .
AirAsia Flight QZ8501: Pilots shut off critical computer system before.
The pilots of doomed AirAsia flight 8501 shut down a critical computer system minutes before it crashed into the Java Sea, killing 162 people on board. Sources close to the crash investigation told Bloomberg that the pilots cut power to a computer.
EUs Triton operation gets underway in Mediterranean
The European Union border agency Frontex on Saturday launched an operation in the Mediterranean Sea in the face of mass attempts by migrants to cross to Europe by boat on often dangerous sea voyages. The mission, called Triton, is to focus on border .
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-10/islamic-state-talked-of-entering-u-s-through-mexico �� Reply. Richard says: April 15, 2015 at 10:52... They told officials that the boat capsized when many migrants moved to one side as a rescue ship approached. Mondays sinking is among the worst migrant... Hundreds more migrants rescued from boats in the Mediterranean are due to arrive in Sicily later on Wednesday. Almost 10,000 have been picked up in��.
Migration season in the Mediterranean means watery graves for potentially.
The ship carrying them capsized, casting everyone on board into the Mediterraneans still-chilly waters. As of Tuesday. Its not rare for boats to crash or capsize. Even when the ships make it to the European coast intact they can still be deadly.
Gates of Vienna: Camp of the Saints: A Postscript
An inhabitant of Carovigno alerted local port authorities when at 5.35 PM he heard shouts coming from the sea and found the capsized craft and numerous people in the water. Rescue operations ensued but were hindered. (ANSA) ��� Rome, November 28 ��� Italian rescue teams continued to scour the area off the coast near Brindisi where they saved 43 people and found three others dead Sunday after a migrant boat sank. Around 30 migrants are believed missing,��.