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☆ Dozens of Migrants Die After Their Dinghy Deflates in the Mediterranean
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Gaia Pianigiani | More About Gaia Pianigiani | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A European humanitarian aid group said on Thursday that about 50 migrants died after their small boat deflated during an attempt to cross the central Mediterranean Sea. A ship belonging to the charity, SOS Mediterranee, spotted the deflating rubber dinghy on Wednesday, in international waters under the Libyan rescue jurisdiction. The survivors told the charity that they had been adrift for four days, since the engine on their dinghy broke. Some 50 other people were with them when they departed from the Libyan port of Zawiya, they told the rescuers, including two infants and four women. Valeria Taurino, the director general of SOS Mediterranee, said the situation on board was “disastrous.”

Persons: Valeria Taurino, ” Organizations: SOS Mediterranee Locations: Zawiya

BARI, Italy (AP) — The year has gotten off to a slow start for a rescue ship that typically plies the Mediterranean Sea looking for migrants and refugees in distress. Italian maritime authorities now routinely assign privately operated rescue ships to ports in central and northern Italy, hundreds of miles and several days of navigation away from where they find boats in trouble. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesTo date, 13 or 14 charity-run rescue ships have been impounded for various violations. But she said the presence of charity-run ships in the Mediterranean must be limited and strictly regulated. Charity ships rescue only around 8% of the asylum-seekers who reach Italy, down from a peak of 41% in 2017.

Persons: Premier Giorgia Meloni, Alessandro Porro, ” Mary Finn, ” Sara Kelany, ”, Meloni, Enrico Mattei, haven't, Edi Rama Organizations: SOS Mediterranee, Premier, Authorities, SOS, Meloni’s Brothers, International Organization for Migration, ENI, Constitutional, Edi Locations: BARI, Italy, Europe, North Africa, Bari, Italian, Lampedusa, Africa, Tunisia, Albania, Balkan

☆ Why France’s Cote d’Azur is one of the world’s best coastlines
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Richard Quest | Joe Minihane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

This is the Côte d’Azur, the grand dame destination for European vacations. And no one artist is as synonymous with the Côte d’Azur as Henri Matisse. And it’s also one of the raw ingredients for another quintessentially Côte d’Azur product: Perfume. At Fragonard, they can also help you create your own personalized scent, something to remember the Côte d’Azur by. The Côte d’Azur is a spectacular place, somewhere that taps into a sense of elegance and retains a charm and beauty that is redolent of years gone by.

Persons: CNN —, bonne, St Tropez, Romulo Yanes, Condé Nast, Vanessa Massé, Massé, ”, it’s, Fleur de Courgette, Saint Paul de Vence, Gabrielle Therin, Henri Matisse, “, Florence Tournier, Matisse, Picasso, Renoir, Monet, Chagall, Tournier, Pierre Longnus, Jean, Pierre Jaubert, Lavender, Jaubert, gesturing, Jessica Buchanan, Bénédicte, Karina Hidalgo, Hidalgo, Buchanan Organizations: CNN, St, Michelin, Getty, Mediterranee, Bank Locations: Cassis, Menton, France, Antibes, Cannes, Nice, Monaco, Provence, Saint, Paris, “, Aix, Grasse, Fragonard

Bedbugs go where you go, and they have become a nightmare haunting France for weeks. Still, bedbugs have plagued France and other countries for decades. The French public began moving into panic mode about a month ago after reports of bedbugs at a Paris movie theater. “All human population movements are profitable for bedbugs because they go with us, to hotels, in transport," said Berenger. Beaune, the transport minister, is hopeful that steps can be taken to ease the public's fear.

Persons: Elisabeth Borne, Clement Beaune, bedbugs, that's, ”, Jean, Michel Berenger, they’ll, Berenger, Ipsos, It’s, Kevin Le Mestre, Lutte Antinuisible, Lucas Pradalier, Emmanuel Macron’s, Mathilde Panot, “, Alex Turnbull Organizations: PARIS, Olympic Games, Metro, Mediterranee University Hospital, National Agency for Health, Food Safety, Paris Olympics, Associated Press Locations: France, Beaune, Marseille, Paris, New York

☆ A Sunny Place for Shady People
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( Liesl Schillinger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Its owner was known to accept paintings in lieu of payment — “My kind of hotel,” Picasso joked. In 1960, burglars broke in and stole 21 canvases, including a Braque, a Léger, a Mirò and a Modigliani. The influential Lord Brougham “discovered” Cannes in 1834, when a cholera epidemic interrupted his progress to Italy. Besotted by the Arcadian surroundings, he built a villa. Other foreign aristocrats followed suit, and 20 years later, Prosper Mérimée complained that “the English are established here as in a conquered land.

Persons: ” Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, Miles, Brougham “, Prosper Mérimée, They’ve, Cap Martin, Queen Victoria, Countess, Balmoral, “, Duchess Anastasia, “ Bertie, ”, King Edward VII, Henry Clews, Frank Jay Gould, Murphys, Edith Wharton, Scott Fitzgerald Organizations: Art, Villa Americana Locations: Saint, Paul, Cannes, Italy, Nice, Beaulieu, La, Menton, Balmoral ”, Russian, Monte Carlo, ”, Antibes, Hyères

[1/4] A member of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) looks at a migrant after he was rescued by the ship 'Geo Barents' during a search and rescue (SAR) operation in the Mediterranean Sea, January 25, 2023. La Spezia is the furthest and northernmost destination that Italy has assigned to an NGO ship. Forcing NGO ships to reach ever-more distant ports increases costs at a time when budgets are stretched by inflation and higher fuel costs following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Last month, the SOS Mediterranee NGO appealed for donations, saying fuel charges for its Ocean Viking rescue ship had increased by over 1 million euros during 2022. The new docking destinations policy adds to a December decree which forces NGO ships to request and head to a port "without delay" after each rescue, rather than continue looking for boats in distress.

[1/4] A migrant, in need of urgent hospital care, lies on a stretcher, as officers prepare them for helicopter transport from rescue ship 'Ocean Viking' in the Mediterranean Sea, November 10, 2022. The Ocean Viking, which is operated by the SOS Mediterranee charity, was sailing on Thursday by the French island of Corsica, but had previously been close to Italy. The French would also reinforce controls at its borders with Italy to prevent migrant crossings, he said. Ocean Viking was the fourth. The far-right was quick to react to the decision to let the Ocean Viking dock, with the RN's Marine Le Pen tweeting that he was being "dramatically" soft on immigration.

☆ German-flagged charity vessel refuses to leave Italian port
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Francesca Landini | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MILAN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - A German-flagged charity vessel refused to leave the Sicilian port of Catania on Sunday, after Italian authorities said not all the migrants it was carrying could disembark, the NGO responsible for the vessel said. Migrants wait to be rescued by crew members of NGO rescue ship 'Ocean Viking' in the Mediterranean Sea, October 26, 2022. Camille Martin Juan/Sos Mediterranee/Handout via REUTERSThe German NGO said that 35 migrants left onboard were in poor health and had fled "inhuman conditions" in Libya. A second charity vessel that had asked Rome for a safe port to disembark 572 migrants has just docked in Catania, the press officer for the Geo Barents ship told Reuters. "Selective and partial disembark, as proposed by the Italian authorities, is not to be considered legal under maritime law conventions," said international NGO Medicins sans Frontieres, which runs Geo Barents ship.

☆ Italia a autorizat debarcarea în Sicilia a celor 572 de migranţi salvaţi de nava Ocean Viking
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-09 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Italia a autorizat acostarea în Sicilia a navei Ocean Viking, ce aparţine organizaţiei umanitare SOS Méditerranée, pentru a debarca 572 de migranţi, a anunţat ONG-ul joi seara, potrivit AFP, citat de agerpres.ro. SOS Méditerranée lansase miercuri un apel către Uniunea Europeană pentru "găsirea unui port sigur şi debarcarea migranţilor primiţi la bordul Ocean Viking, cât mai rapid posibil". La 1 mai, nava Ocean Viking a adus în Sicilia alţi 236 de migranţi salvaţi pe mare. Recent, ONU a cerut Uniunii Europene şi Libiei să-şi reformeze procedurile de căutare şi salvare a migranţilor pe mare astfel încât să fie respectate drepturile şi demnitatea acestora. Din februarie 2016 până în prezent, organizaţia SOS Méditerranée a salvat peste 30.000 de persoane, cu ajutorul navelor Aquarius şi Ocean Viking.

Persons: Augusta, Méditerranée Organizations: Ocean Viking, SOS, Uniunea Europeană, ONU, Uniunii Europene Locations: Italia, Sicilia, Marsilia, Libiei, Europa, Malta

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