[AlAhram] At least seven
About 10 other people were missing, Luigi Patronaggio, the chief prosecutor of a team leading investigations into the deaths, told Rooters.
The
"This latest tragedy in the Mediterranean is heartbreaking, I wonder what else has to happen to make Italia and Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...understand that we cannot go on like this," Lampedusa's mayor, Toto Martello, said.
Coastguard units managed to rescue about 46 other
More than 250 more
Arrivals in Italia - one of the main migrant routes into Europe had been falling in recent years, but numbers picked up again in 2021. Almost 19,800
Migrants hunger strike puts pressure on Belgian government
[AlAhram] A hunger strike by hundreds of
The hunger strike started over a month ago in two universities and a Brussels church, by
To highlight their desperation, some hunger strikers stitched their lips together this week, and are only accepting small amounts of liquids through a straw. Estimates of the number participating range as high as 400 but Migration and Asylum State Secretary Sammy Mahdi has used a figure of about 200.
Mahdi has insisted he is seeking to quicken up and improve the whole application system for people seeking to stay in Belgium but refuses to budge when facing demands by the hunger strikers for their cases to be handled now.
``They say that there are 150,000 living here illegally, and the 200 people that decide to stop eating should be regularized individually? What would be the result? A week later you get 200, 2,000, 20,000 people who would do exactly the same.''
``That's not the way to go about it,'' he told VRT network.