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Images showing a boat belonging to the Italian coastguard in the harbour of Lampedusa island in Sicily, after they rescued migrants in the Mediterranean sea. IMAGES
Images taken during a guided tour organised by the Israeli Navy show Israeli sailors aboard a Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat preparing to depart to patrol off the coast of Gaza from a naval base in the northern port city of Haifa. IMAGES
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that the navy would take over patrolling the Channel for migrants trying to cross from France. SOUNDBITE
The Assistant Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that more than 100 "threats to life" were prevented by a huge global crime sting involving encrypted phones that were secretly planted by law enforcement agencies, during a press conference at Europol's HQ in The Hague. SOUNDBITE
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi receives Libyan Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah in Rome. IMAGES
The German NGO Sea Watch rescued around 100 migrants off of Libya on Wednesday, saying the Libyan coastguard would have turned them back to shore if the humanitarian group had not intervened. IMAGES