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An NGO ship which saved 87 migrants in distress off the coast of Libya docks in Spain after roaming the Mediterranean for days, the third such vessel to be allowed to enter the country in two monthsafter Italy refused to take them in. IMAGES
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says the NGO rescue ship Lifeline, which has been stranded for days in the Mediterranean carrying over 200 hundred migrants, will dock in Malta on Wednesday evening. SOUNDBITE
Rescue ship Aquarius (with orange hull) arrives in the Spanish port of Valencia. The 630 migrants whose rescue sparked a major migration row in Europe began disembarking various ships, after a turbulent week that saw Italy turn away the Aquarius ship. 1ST IMAGES
A Turkish vessel carrying materials for field hospitals arrives in Egypt's port of El Arish near the Rafah border crossing with the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, a port official said. A Turkish health official told AFP that the vessel was carrying "materials, generators, ambulances to establish eight field hospitals". The delivery comes as Hamas government officials said all hospitals in northern Gaza were "out of service" amid fighting with Israeli forces. IMAGES
Rescue workers search for earthquake victims in the ruins with the help of a backhoe in Antakya, Turkey. The death toll from the powerful earthquake ten days ago in Turkey and Syria is now over 40,000, according to the latest estimates. IMAGES