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Two people die attempting to cross Channel in dinghy

Fifty-three people were rescued by helicopter on Sunday morning, French authorities have said

The Guardian - UK

Deaths in Greece wildfires highlight the plight of asylum seekers

Firefighters find 18 burned bodies in Dadia Forest, suspected to be asylum seekers, as wildfires ravage northern Greece.

Al Jazeera

Despite EU-Tunisia deal, Black refugees pushed out ‘at gunpoint’

The EU has promised Tunisia $280m in aid. But on the country’s frontiers, refugees and migrants are still stranded.

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NGOs lose contact with Tunisian migrant group, bodies found

Migrant rescue group says it has lost contact with a large group of Black African migrants expelled from Tunisia.

Al Jazeera

So thirsty they drank seawater: The refugees Tunisia pushed out

More than 1,000 people were bussed to borders with Libya, Algeria – and left with no food, water, shelter or way out.

Al Jazeera

Greek coastguard faces tough questions over refugee boat tragedy

Some survivors say their overcrowded trawler capsized this month after the Greek coastguard tried to tow it.

Al Jazeera

The Greek migrant shipwreck is another preventable tragedy at the borders of Europe

The Mediterranean route between Libya and Italy has been described as the “world’s most dangerous maritime crossing”. This was proven once again last week in the tragic shipwreck of a boat full of men, women and children, around 50 miles away from the southern Greek town of Pylos.

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Diverging narratives emerge after trawler with hundreds of migrants sinks in the Mediterranean

There are still more questions than answers about what led up to one of the worst shipwrecks in recent Mediterranean history, in which some 500 people are feared dead

The Independent UK

Search for loved ones, truth in Greece after migrant boat tragedy

Hundreds of people are missing after a refugee-filled vessel capsizes off Greece’s west coast, killing dozens.

Al Jazeera

Greek coastguard denies claims refugee boat capsized after tow rope attached

UN calls for urgent action to prevent further tragedies as police believe up to 500 people remain missing

The Guardian - UK

Timeline: How the migrant boat tragedy unfolded off Greece

Greek authorities say they were notified of the boat’s presence but those onboard repeatedly refused offers for help.

Al Jazeera

Hope fades for missing migrants in deadly shipwreck in Greece

Nine survivors from a migrant boat that sank were arrested Thursday on suspicion of smuggling as hope faded for hundreds of missing passengers and attention turned to Greece’s failure to act before the overcrowded ship capsized.

France 24

Greece: Captain and eight others arrested as 100 children feared on board capsized migrants vessel

Nine survivors arrested on suspicion of belonging to the smuggling ring that arranged the voyage

Evening Standard

A look at migration trends behind the latest shipwreck off Greece

The shipwreck off southern Greece, involving a large boat carrying migrants that capsized after apparently rebuffing offers of help, is just the latest case of smugglers packing vessels full of desperate people willing to risk their lives to reach continental Europe

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Malta says it didn't find migrant boat in distress alerted by NGOs

Authorities on the European island nation of Malta have contested accusations made by a group of nongovernmental organizations a day earlier regarding a migrant boat in distress

The Independent UK

Rescue groups say Malta coordinated the return of 500 migrants to Libya instead of saving them

Rescue groups are accusing the European island nation of Malta of coordinating the return of around 500 people to Libya where they were subsequently imprisoned, in violation of international maritime law

The New Daily

‘Lost at sea’ asylum seekers found and towed back to Libya

Nearly 500 migrants who tried to cross the central Mediterranean have been brought back to Libya, according to a UN spokesman

The New Daily

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.

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Reuters

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.

Al Jazeera

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.

Reuters

Malta receives 60 rescued migrants in first arrivals in months

Sixty migrants who were rescued from two boats in the central Mediterranean landed in Malta on Monday in the biggest arrival of migrants on the island for months, eyewitnesses said.

Al Jazeera

Boat carrying 400 migrants adrift between Italy and Malta

People onboard say boat has been adrift for two days as it has taken on water and is without a captain.

WEKU

2 people are dead, 20 missing, as a migrant boat sinks off the coast of Tunisia

The boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy. About 25 people were rescued. Thousands of migrants have reached Italy's tiny Lampedusa island in the past few days.

Evening Standard

Boat with 400 migrants adrift off Malta with captain fleeing and ‘nobody on board who can steer’

A boat carrying around 400 migrants is adrift between Greece and Malta, authorities said.

Reuters

Drifting migrant boat in Mediterranean supplied with fuel but no rescue, NGO says

A merchant ship has supplied fuel and water to a boat with around 400 migrants on board which is in distress between Greece and Malta but Maltese authorities have ordered it not to conduct a rescue, German NGO Sea-Watch International said on Monday.

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