Sea-Watch 3 now has a broken anchor
rome January 31, 2019 09:00Averij has delayed the departure of the controversial ship the Sea-Watch 3 to a port of Sicily. The vessel with 47 migrants on board was struggling with the anchor causing the voyage...
Averij has delayed the departure of the controversial ship the Sea-Watch 3 to a port of Sicily. The vessel with 47 migrants on board was struggling with the anchor causing the voyage...
The Netherlands and seven other EU countries include 49 migrants who are on board two ships. The Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat, made this outcome of consultations between European countries...
A long fierce heather on a training ground of the German armed forces has finally been extinguished. On Wednesday, the 'Bundeswehr' reported that the fire at the village of Stavern, about 35 kilometers east of Emmen, had been extinguished after five weeks. There are still 160 of the original 1600 firefighters present, but there are no more fires to be seen.
Just over the border in Germany four Dutch people were arrested. They acted in illegal potency pills. At their homes in Sustrum-Moor and Heede, just over the border near Groningen, more than 440,000 such pills have been found. They are confiscated, as are 170,000 euros in cash.
A rescue ship of aid organization Proactiva with 87 migrants on board sets sail for Spain. The Spanish rescue organization reported that on the night from Monday to Sunday on Twitter.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella personally interfered with the fact that 67 migrants were allowed to come to a Sicilian port after they had been picked up from the sea off the Libyan coast. Italian media report that Friday.
The Spanish government has again granted permission to a rescue ship to bring migrants into a Spanish port. The Spanish aid organization Proactiva announced Sunday morning that its ship the Open Arms is welcome in the port of Barcelona.
A mooring fire at the English city of Manchester is threatening to get out of hand. The fire brigade evacuated 34 homes on Tuesday evening on the third day of heathland. The conflagration of the Saddleworth Moor, 10 kilometers east of the center of Manchester, according to local media is the most severe mooring in the region since time immemorial.
The Lifeline ship with around 230 picked up migrants on board has still not docked in Malta. The German organization Mission-Lifeline reports that it has not yet received a permit from the Maltese government.
Berlin and Kiel are prepared to receive migrants from the Lifeline ship. That is what political leaders of these German cities have said to German media.
Malta does not permit the rescue vessel to moor the Aquarius to refuel, store supplies and replace the crew. According to the MSF aid organization (MSF), the Maltese authorities have given no reason why the ship is not allowed.
A Danish container ship with rescued migrants on board is allowed to moor in Italy. The mayor of Pozzallo said that Alexander Maersk has permission from Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to enter the port of his city.
An Italian coast guard ship with more than nine hundred migrants on board has arrived in Italy. This happened a few days after the country had closed the ports for the rescue ship Aquarius, which had more than six hundred migrants on board. That vessel is now on its way to Spain.
The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has reacted angrily to the French criticism of the way his government deals with rescue ship Aquarius. The recently appointed Italian head of government blamed Paris hypocrisy.
The rescue ship Aquarius, which has more than six hundred migrants on board, is allowed to moor in the Spanish city of Valencia. That is what Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces, Spanish media reports.
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) wants a solution to be found for the stalemate around the rescue ship Aquarius. The vessel with more than six hundred migrants on board has not yet received permission to moor.
Italy refuses to accept a boat with more than six hundred immigrants in one of its ports. The government in Rome has asked Malta to include the immigrants. Malta rejected the request and said that it has nothing to do with the operation in which hundreds of refugees have been rescued from the sea.
Seven crewmembers of a ferry disappeared in the Pacific were found in a lifeboat by the crew of a plane of the New Zealand Air Force and were brought on board of a fishing boat on Sunday.
After MSF (ASG), Save the Children has also decided to suspend the rescue mission for migrants on boats in the Mediterranean.
The city council of Amsterdam has agreed on the 'Jump over the IJ' on Thursday evening. This is the arrival of the Javafiets bridge and later the bicycle bridge at the Stone Head. There are coming hundreds of millions for the project, which has to connect North with the city center.
Tighter rules for organizations that save boat migrants in the Mediterranean can increase the number of drowning deaths by thousands. For this reason, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) warn.
The United States has released the 45-year-old Mohamedou Ould Slahi from the prison Guantanamo in Cuba. The Moor has returned to his homeland. Slahi was announced by the diary that he kept in prison for terrorists.
On the Greek island of Lesbos is working on the temporary restoration of a large refugee camp was destroyed by fire on Monday. The Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported on Wednesday that now half of the estimated 4,400 migrants from the camp is returned.
The Dutch towage company Smit Salvage has managed the drifting ship Modern Express dragging in the harbor of the Spanish city of Bilbao. Salvage workers are trying to moor the ship, said a spokesman for Smit Wednesday.
On the Balearic Islands introducing a special tax for tourists in 2016 . The regional government hopes 80 million a year to shake off the visitors to protect the environment in the context of sustainable tourism .