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REFUGEE rescuers condemned the Italian government on Tuesday for preventing a non-governmental organisation’s (NGO) reconnaissance plane from carrying out its monitoring missions in the central Mediterranean.
German refugee rescue organisation Sea Watch announced in a video released this afternoon that, since Friday, the Italian authorities had prohibited its plane Moonbird from departing the island of Lampedusa.
“The Italian government and the European Union want to make sure that no-one knows the truth about what happens in the central Mediterranean,” Sea Watch legal adviser Giorgia Linardi said in the video.
Holyrood incompetence has cost jobs and put the future of Clydeside’s Ferguson Marine shipyard into jeopardy. Its future should have been assured, argues KENNY MACASKILL
Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers