Thousands of migrants have been saved from the sea near Libya during one of the busiest weekends of the year for rescue workers. More than 2,000 people were rescued on Friday and 3,000 on Saturday in dozens of separate rescues, the Italian Coast Guard said. But at least seven people drowned as aid workers struggled … Read more
Rescue vessels in the Mediterranean worked flat out Friday to rescue over 2,000 people from flimsy dinghies as exhausted saviours accused the EU of turning a blind eye to the crisis. The Italian coast guard and five privately-run rescue boats plucked migrants from 16 overcrowded dinghies and three wooden vessels. After non-stop back-to-back rescues, a … Read more
Around 3,000 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya on Sunday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, the Italian coastguard told AFP. “After some calm days, migrants are arriving in large numbers, taking advantage of a window of favourable weather,” said a coastguard official. The rescue was undertaken in 22 separate … Read more
The number of migrants rescued at sea this year in operations run by Italy’s coastguard topped 15,000 Friday after another 900 people were saved, including eight-month-old Syrian twins and five other babies less than a year old. The latest operations confirm the pattern of a sharp upward spike in winter departures from troubled Libya. Aid … Read more
The migrants were picked up in batches by Italian coast guards between Tuesday and Thursday About 2,500 migrants were rescued off the Mediterranean in the past three days by Italian coast guards. 1,100 were taken from nine flimsy vessels off the Libyan coast on Thursday while another 1,360 others had been picked up on Tuesday … Read more
A group of international scientists have announced that a dwarf star only 40 light years from the Earth has at least seven apparently rocky planets with potential to harbour water and life. The discovery of the planets, which are all about the size of Earth or smaller, was announced at the NASA headquarters in Washington, … Read more
About 730 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast on Wednesday after seven rescue operations mounted by the Italian coast guard and the SOS Mediterranee aid group. The migrants were mainly from sub-Saharan Africa, said the coast guard, which is coordinating rescue operations in the central Mediterranean. SOS Mediterranee, which operates in the region said … Read more
A Nigerian woman has given birth to a boy on board a rescue ship in the Mediterranean after being plucked from an overcrowded rubber dinghy. Medical charity MSF said because the baby was born in international waters, his nationality was still under debate. A midwife on board the ship MV Aquarius described the birth as … Read more