 | ...then brought to Italy rather than returned to Libya, which will encourage ever more of the unvetted to take this easier invasion route. |
[AlAhram] More than 1,500 migrants colonists were rescued from waters off Libya Monday, lifting the total picked up to 8,000 over five days, according to the Italian coastguard which coordinated the operations.
Vessels from the coastguard, the Italian navy, humanitarian organizations and EU anti-trafficking operation Sophia were involved in 14 different rescue missions.
The latest rescues will lift to around 94,000 the number of migrants colonists brought to Italian ports this year, roughly in line with the pattern of 2015, according to Flavio Di Giacomo, a front man for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
The number of migrants colonists trying to reach Europe via the Greek islands has dropped sharply since an EU-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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deal designed to stem the flow was agreed in March.
Numbers on that route are running at dozens per day rather than the thousands per day seen this time last year.
More than 3,000 migrants colonists have died at sea while trying to reach either Greece or Italia since the start of this year, an increase of some 50 percent on the same period in 2015.
The number of migrants arriving on the Greek islands has DOUBLED since the failed military coup in Turkey
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[DailyMail] More than 1,170 have crossed the Aegean and into Greece in the fortnight following the attempted putsch on July 15, compared to just 560 in the two weeks before. |