[Migrants arrive by the Italian coastguard vessel Peluso in the Sicilian harbour of Augusta]Some 2,000 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast from 14 rubber dinghies and one larger boat in salvage operations by the Italian navy and coastguard, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres and an Irish navy vessel, the coastguard said. More than 31,000 migrants have reached Italy by boat so far this year, slightly fewer than in the same period of 2015. Humanitarian organisations say the sea route between Libya and Italy is now the main route for asylum seekers heading for Europe, after an EU deal on migrants with Turkey dramatically slowed the flow of people reaching Greece.
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