Cyprus' interior minister Konstantinos Ioannou (second right) talks to the media during a press conference as his counterparts Austria's Gerhard Karner (left), Czech's Vít Rakusan (second left), and Greece's Minister Of Immigration and Asylum Dimitris Kairides (right), stand by, during the Ministerial Summit Migration and Syria Dynamics in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, May 17, 2024
ACTIVISTS saved the lives of more than 20 children from an overcrowded rubber boat in distress in the central Mediterranean Sea on Thursday night.
The Humanity 1 rescue ship found the rubber boat adrift in international waters after the activist-run distress hotline organisation Alarm Phone alerted them to the distress case in the morning.
The ship’s crew had already rescued 28 people from a small wooden boat in the same area earlier that day.
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