Since the beginning of the year, 54 people have died at sea trying to reach England. Casualties are occurring increasingly close to the coast. Despite a reinforced stronger search and rescue system, the fatality rate is rising.
The documents, marked top secret, describe satellite images of Israeli preparations for a potential strike on Iran, according to media reports.ย
The state is now conducting damage assessments after the hurricane made landfall late Wednesday, but early indications are that the damage could have been worse.
It made landfall along the Florida Gulf Coast on Wednesday evening; DeSantis warned earlier in the day of the likelihood of storm-related deaths in the state.
Rescue teams in the south said several people were missing and called on volunteers and the army to assist with search and rescue operations as roads were closed and houses left without electricity.
New legislation targets planes working with NGO vessels.
Keir Starmer wants to ape Italy on tackling irregular migration. He should brace for controversy.
Storms battered eastern Romania on Saturday, flooding several neighbourhoods, where emergency workers found four people dead in a search and rescue mission.ย The stormy weather comes as several central European nations anticipate severe flooding to hit…
Tech tycoon, 59, was among six people missing since early hours of Monday morning when Bayesian yacht capsizedThe British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been confirmed dead by search and rescue authorities after his yacht sank off the coast of Sicily…
Call for better trail signage and backing for walking clubs as concerns grow over tourists encountering searing heatWith Greece gripped by unusually high temperatures, fears are growing that foreign visitors are not aware or being properly informed of …
POLITICO keeps the receipts on what the Conservatives have said about policy in the general election campaign, from national service to the ‘triple lock plus.’
“European solidarity? With whom. And with whose money?” one MEP asked.
Raisi made an “invaluable personal contribution” to boosting neighborly relations between Tehran and Moscow, Putin said.
Raisi had been tipped as a possible successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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European Parliament and the Council (the EU body…
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Royal Holloway, University of London
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Just before Christmas, the European
Parliament and…
The Asylum and Migration Pact adopted by the European Parliament on Wednesday (10 April) will โweaken the right to asylumโ and enshrine in law an ailing approach to migration policy, Eve Geddie, head of Amnesty Internationalโs Brussels office, told Eur…
Italian coastguard rescues 22 survivors trying to cross Mediterranean and searches for missingNine people, including a baby, have died after their boat capsized while trying to cross the Mediterranean in stormy weather, and another 15 people are feared…
UK PM Sunak has pledged to โstop the boatsโ from crossing the Channel and said he would pay millions of pounds to France for help.
Exclusive: newly obtained footage and leaked documents show how a โmass casualty eventโ could arise from aggressive tactics employed by border forcesFrench police funded by the UK government have endangered the lives of vulnerable migrants by intercept…
Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of LondonPhoto credit: Rachmaninoff, via Wikimedia CommonsAmendments to this blog post since its original publication are marked by asterisks.* Most recent amendment: June 18 2024. Just before…
Mรฉdecins Sans Frontiรจres says โdangerous manoeuvresโ by coastguard put refugees at even greater riskAn NGO performing search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean has accused the Libyan coastguard of hampering an attempt to save more than 170 people…
Zelenskiy urges west to deliver more air defences as at least 11 killed in Russian attacks; Germany investigates Moscowโs apparent interception of military call discussing UkraineSee all our Ukraine war coverageVolodymyr Zelenskiy has called on the wes…
An independent Greek authority probing the deadly Pylos shipwreck is posing questions eight months later on whether the Greek coast guard had even been tasked to carry out a search and rescue.
Russiaโs Black Sea fleet suffers further losses.
Russian strike kills three in Sumy village as petrol station attack sparks blaze in Kharkiv; western officials deride Tucker Carlson interview with Vladimir PutinSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageA Russian attack in the north-eastern Ukrainian reg…
Thousands of people die each year crossing the worldโs most dangerous migration route to Europe. Yet many of those rescued from the waves say they would do it all againPhotographs by Stefanie GlinskiAfter hours searching the grey waters of the Mediterr…
The military says the incident happened during a training mission, and that search and rescue efforts began immediately.
Ukrainian President Volodymyrย Zelenskyy calls the strike a ‘particularly brutal’ crime.
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Romana Partipilo, PhD candidate in
International Law at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa)
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The next victim of the blocโs migration obsession may well be itself.
Spain has sent 86 rescuers and eight search dogs to Morocco to “help in the search and rescue of survivors of the devastating earthquake suffered in our neighbouring country”, said a defence ministry statement. The Spanish were the first to send in em…
Government declared three days of national mourning after worst quake in more than a century.
The first COVID-19 lockdown, combined with a rise in anti-immigration rhetoric has resulted in systemic pushbacks by the Hellenic Coast Guard, sea rescue expert Giannis Skenderoglou told EURACTIV in an interview.
Why was an effective search and rescue operation not mounted to save up to 750 people on board the Adriana, as it struggled off the Greek coast?For the relatives of the hundreds of migrants who drowned in June when a fishing trawler packed with human c…
The European Ombudsman Emily OโReilly has launched an investigation into Frontexโs role in search and rescue operations at sea, in a bid to shine a light on the EU border agency’s response to a series of major shipwrecks in 2023.
Ombudsman to examine search and rescue role of Frontex after at least 500 people drowned in tragedyThe EU watchdog has launched an investigation into the role of the European border and coastguard agency in Mediterranean search and rescue operations af…
The investigation into Frontex comes after the Adriana capsized in June, with hundreds feared dead.
Activist Carola Rackete, who rose to prominence as captain of an NGO search and rescue boat, was nominated on Monday (17 July) as one of the two lead candidates for the German Left Party for next year’s EU election.
The European Parliament has called for the restoration of a European Search and Rescue (SAR) mission in the Mediterranean Sea following a series of deadly shipwrecks in the region.
MEPs wish to see the EU and member states carry out more active and coordinated search and rescue (SAR) operations, with border agency Frontex playing a key role.Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Source : ยฉ European Union, 2023 – EP
In a tense European Parliament hearing, the EU’s home affairs commissioner said countries must ‘step up’ following the Greek shipwreck.
European parliamentarians proposed a cross-party motion in the wake of a deadly migrant shipwreck in Greece.
Members of the European Parliament will vote Thursday on a motion calling for a new EU-wide search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean.
The Libyan coastguard fired multiple times while two boats of the NGO SOS Mediterranรฉe were conducting a rescue of eleven people in distress in international waters on Friday (7 July).
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Teaching Fellow, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham
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As the EU makes yet another proposal
to cooperate with a third country on containing migrants outsid…
There is little cooperation between national coast guard services and NGOs.
