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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Italian coast guard rescues 414 boat migrants including four newborns

Three Italian ships rescued 414 migrants from four boats in the Mediterranean sea on Tuesday, Italy's coast guard said, with four newborns and one young child among those saved. About 150,000 migrants, many fleeing poverty and war in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, came to Europe by sea between January and July, according to the International Organisation for Migration. Most of them cross the narrow stretch of sea from lawless Libya to Italy and Greece.


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