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A rescuer on board the Ocean Viking comforts a child pulled from the Mediterranean Sea
EUROPE was urged to reassess the way it handles refugees today after about 930 people in 15 separate incidents escaped war-torn Libya and attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea over the past weekend.
According to Alarm Phone, an activist network providing aid to people crossing the Mediterranean, approximately 650 people were picked up by the civil rescue fleet between Friday January 24 and Monday January 27.
The Ocean Viking, run by European charities SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), saved the lives of 407 people, including 149 children and 12 pregnant women.
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Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated
Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike
