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Spanish humanitarian ship Open Arms arrives off the island of Lampedusa with 147 migrants on board, after a judge in Rome suspended far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's decree banning them from Italy's territorial waters. IMAGES
A European Union naval coalition has rescued 4,243 migrants stranded on wooden fishing boats and motorised rubber dinghies in the Mediterranean Sea over the past 24 hours alone, the Italian coastguard said on Saturday.
More than 400 migrants are plucked to safety from the waters of the Mediterranean by German ships including children and pregnant women. Mana Rabiee reports.
Rescue services and mortuary vans enter and leave Calais port area after a migrant boat captsized. Six people were killed when a boat carrying migrants heading to Britain sank in the Channel. IMAGES