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The migrants have been communicating with relatives and activist groups through a satellite phone, and have urged European coastguards to rescue them [File: Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]

Activists and relatives of Lebanese and Syrian migrants and refugees stranded on board a sinking boat near the island of Malta have said that a third child has died on the vessel, and that they have lost contact with it.

The international activist network Alarm Phone said on Tuesday that the last contact with the roughly 60 Lebanese and Syrians had been overnight.

The migrants and refugees had told their relatives and volunteer groups by satellite phone that they had been without food, water and baby formula for several days.

They also said that a third child had died on board due to dehydration, according to the relatives.

The vessel left from the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli about 10 days ago. The passengers, headed for Italy, include Syrian refugees and Lebanese from the country's north.

The passengers have urged European coastguards to rescue them.

Since yesterday evening, also the relatives of people on the boat lost contact to the distressed. We keep alerting authorities but they refuse to inform us if any rescue efforts have been undertaken. End this cruel non-assistance!

- Alarm Phone (@alarm_phone) September 6, 2022

Alarm Phone tweeted that it continued to alert authorities but that they "refuse to inform us if any rescue efforts have been undertaken".

"End this cruel non-assistance," the group said.

Malta has also not given permission to a commercial cargo ship to rescue the stranded migrants and refugees, the network said.

The Maltese authorities have not immediately responded to requests from the Associated Press news agency for comment on the boat.

'Children struggling'

One of the migrants' relatives said his brother told him during their last call on Monday night that more water was leaking into the boat and "that they are drenched". The man spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for his brother's safety.

"The adults are handling the cold and lack of supplies okay, but the children are really struggling," he said.

A Lebanese legislator, Ashraf Rifi, asked Italy to send a rescue team, and called on Lebanon's foreign ministry and diplomatic mission in Rome to do the same. The Lebanese government has not yet commented on the matter.

Lebanon has become a launching pad for dangerous migration by sea to Europe, as it struggles from an economic crisis over the past three years that has pulled three-quarters of its population into poverty.

As the crisis deepened, more Lebanese, as well as Syrian and Palestinian refugees, have set off to sea, with security agencies reporting foiled migration attempts almost weekly.

Also on Tuesday, a four-year-old girl drowned during the rescue of more than 60 asylum seekers in distress in Maltese waters, the Greek coastguard said. They added that they had been notified by their Maltese counterpart to help airlift her.

The girl had been picked up with another 62 people by an Antigua-flagged cargo ship when their boat ran into trouble at sea. The child and her mother were taken by a Greek navy helicopter to a hospital on Crete, where doctors pronounced her dead.

The cargo ship was also told to reroute. It moored south of Crete with the remaining asylum seekers, whose nationalities were not immediately known.

Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies

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Ships in the Mediterranean Sea rescued stranded migrants trying to reach Europe, with the Italian island of Lampedusa facing a surge in new arrivals. Five migrants have been found dead, however.

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TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) - Survivors of a doomed migrant boat blamed the Lebanese navy on Sunday for sinking it, saying a naval vessel rammed the packed ship while trying to force it back to shore.

Meanwhile the death toll of Saturday night's disaster rose to seven, with state media reporting the recovery of a body of a man from Tripoli. The incident was the latest in a growing trend involving mostly Lebanese and Syrians trying to travel to Europe from Lebanon in search of better lives.

Survivor Mustafa al-Jundi told The Associated Press that the navy tried to stop the migrant boat but it kept sailing.

"They rammed into us and made us sink then moved away," said al-Jundi, whose two sisters are still missing. He said the Lebanese military returned about 90 minutes later and rescued them.

Angry residents attacked a main army checkpoint in Tripoli earlier in the day, throwing stones at troops who responded by firing into the air. Some shops closed as angry men blocked several streets in Tripoli, Lebanon's most impoverished city. There were no reports of injuries.

The Lebanese military announced that 47 people were rescued, while seven bodies including one of a young girl had been recovered. They said high waves had submerged the boat, which was carrying more people than it could hold.

Col. Haitham Dinnawi, commander of the Lebanese navy, told reporters the old boat had been packed with nearly 60 people, but could only carry six. No precautionary measures were taken onboard, he added, and no one was wearing life vests.

Dinnawi blamed the captain of the migrant boat for maneuvering to avoid being forced to return back to shore, and blamed him for the collision. He showed photographs of the damage on the side and back of one navy boat, adding that the migrant boat sank within seconds after the accident.

"It was a crime to take people on such a boat," Dinnawi said, adding that it was manufactured in 1974 and carrying 15 times its capacity. He said search operations are still ongoing for the missing.

Prime Minister Najib Mikati declared a day of national mourning on Monday.

"It is appalling to see deprivation still drives people to take these dangerous trips across the seas," tweeted Lebanon's U.N. humanitarian coordinator, Najat Rochdi.

Several of the rescued were treated on the spot while others were taken to nearby hospitals. One person was detained on suspicion of being a smuggler involved in organizing the journey, the military said.

Search operations began Saturday night after the boat, apparently heading to Europe, sank shortly after leaving the coastal Lebanese town of Qalamoun.

For many years Lebanon was a country that took in refugees, but since the country's economic meltdown began in October 2019, hundreds of people have left on boats hoping for a better life in Europe.

Migrants from Lebanon pay thousands of dollars to smugglers to take them to Europe. Hundreds have made it to European countries, while dozens of others have been stopped and forced to return home by the Lebanese navy. Several people have lost their lives on the way to Europe over the past three years.

Lebanon, a small Mediterranean nation of 6 million people, including 1 million Syrian refugees, is in the grip of the worst economic crisis in the country's modern history. The economic meltdown has put more three-quarters of the country's population into poverty.

The World Bank describes the crisis as among the worst in the world since the 1850s. Tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs and the Lebanese pound has lost more than 90% of its value.

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Associated Press writer Bassem Mroue contributed to this report from Beirut.

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TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) - Survivors of a doomed migrant boat blamed the Lebanese navy on Sunday for sinking it, saying a naval vessel rammed the packed ship while trying to force it back to shore. Meanwhile the death toll of Saturday night's disaster rose to seven, with state media reporting the recovery of a body of a man from Tripoli.

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More than a thousand migrants arrived in Italy within a few hours while hundreds of others, rescued by humanitarian vessels, were waiting for a port to receive them, NGOs and authorities said Sunday.

The influx - while not unusual for the summer months - this year comes as Italy gears up for early elections which could bring the hard right to power.

Between January 1 and July 22, 34,000 people arrived in Italy by sea compared with 25,500 during the same period in 2021 and 10,900 in 2020, Italy's interior ministry said.

More than 600 people attempting to cross the Mediterranean on board a drifting fishing vessel were rescued on Saturday by a merchant vessel and coastguards off Calabria, at the southern tip of Italy.

They were landed in several ports in Sicily.

The authorities also recovered five bodies of migrants who had died in so far undetermined circumstances.

"The Mediterranean is becoming the biggest cemetery of the desperate," president of the Sicily region Nello Musumeci said in a statement.

On the island of Lampedusa, some 522 people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, among others, arrived from the late hours of Saturday in 15 different boats from Tunisia and Libya.

According to the Italian media, the island's reception centre has been overwhelmed.

With a capacity of 250-300 people, it currently hosts 1,200, according to the Ansa news agency.

According to La Sicilia daily, the latest arrivals on Lampedusa came both by ships carrying dozens, even hundreds of people, as well as by small inflatable boats.

Four Tunisians, including one woman, ran aground during the night on the beach of Cala Pisana after crossing the stretch of sea separating Tunisia and the Italian island, the daily said.

At the same time, it said that coastguards had intercepted a 13-metre (43-foot) ship which had departed from the northwestern Libyan city of Zawiya with 123 people from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt and Sudan on board.

Most dangerous route

NGOs continued to recover hundreds of migrants in distress in the Mediterranean.

SeaWatch reported that it had carried out four rescue operations on Saturday.

"On board SeaWatch3, we have 428 people, including women and children, a woman nine months pregnant and a patient with severe burns," it said on its Twitter account.

The #SeaWatch3 has now 428 people on board, rescued from 4 overcrowded boats within 12 hours yesterday. More details in the thread ⬇️ (1/5) pic.twitter.com/GaVwwke47e
- Sea-Watch International (@seawatch_intl) July 24, 2022

Ocean Viking, run by non-governmental organisation SOS Mediterranean, said it carried out two rescue operations on Sunday.

First, it recovered 87 people, including 57 unaccompanied minors, who were crammed onto "an overcrowded inflatable boat in distress in international waters off Libya".

Then 108 people, including many women and children, were found in similar conditions.

The NGO said "195 people are now being cared for aboard the Ocean Viking".

The Central Mediterranean migration route is the most dangerous in the world.

The International Organization for Migration estimates that 990 people have died and disappeared since the beginning of the year.

The latest inflow of migrants comes at a politically sensitive time in Italy.

Reformist Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned last week after being toppled by parties in his national unity government.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella has dissolved parliament and set September 25 for new elections to be held.

But Draghi's coalition could be replaced by a government dominated by the eurosceptic Brothers of Italy party and the pro-Russian, anti-immigration League.

Together the two parties are polling at almost 40 percent of the vote.

In a tweet on Sunday, Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, condemned the arrival of "411 illegal migrants... in a few hours on Lampedusa".

"On September 25, Italians will be able to finally choose change: for the return of security, of courage and of border control," he wrote.

Salvini has been on trial in Italy, where he is accused of stopping a migrant boat from docking and leaving 147 people stranded at sea in dire conditions while he was immigration minister in 2019. He denies the allegations.

The next court hearings are set to take place in September.

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More than a thousand migrants arrived in Italy within a few hours while hundreds of others, rescued by humanitarian vessels, were waiting for a port to receive them, NGOs and authorities said Sunday. The influx - while not unusual for the summer months - this year comes as Italy gears up for early elections which could bring the hard right to power.

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A group of 61 migrants picked up by a cargo ship from a crippled fishing boat in the central Mediterranean have safely reached the island of Crete hours after a severely ill child on the freighter died while being airlifted to Greece, Greek authorities said Wednesday.

The Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian migrants had reportedly been stranded for days without provisions on a leaking fishing boat near Malta, after trying to sail from Lebanon to Italy about 10 days ago.

"We had tried pressing the Maltese, Italian, and Greek authorities for days to get them to authorize a ship in the vicinity of the migrants to rescue them," Moroccan-Italian activist Nawal Soufy told the Associated Press. Soufy had been in contact with the migrants on board and rescue freighter, BBC Pearl, via satellite phone.

"We're now waiting for the Greek authorities to respond to our queries about the migrants' current situation."

On Tuesday, a Greek navy helicopter had airlifted a 4-year-old girl with health problems and her mother off the BBC Pearl, but the child was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital on Crete.

The coast guard said the remaining 33 men, 7 women and 21 children disembarked from the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged ship early Wednesday at the port of Kali Limenes on southern Crete.

Two were taken to hospital with non life-threatening health issues, while the rest were temporarily put up in a sports hall in the town of Moires.

Greek authorities said it was not immediately clear when they were picked up by the freighter, where they had set off from and where they had been heading.

The coast guard said in a statement late Tuesday that the BBC Pearl had rescued them inside Malta's search and rescue area. It said Greece received a request around midday Tuesday from Maltese authorities, who had been contacted by the cargo ship's captain, to airlift the mother and child to safety.

The ship then altered course towards Crete to facilitate the airlift, the coast guard statement said.

The migrants on board had told their relatives and volunteer groups by satellite phone earlier that they have been without food, water, and baby formula for days.

A relative of one of the passengers, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, claimed the migrants were lost at sea, as their smuggler did not provide them with a navigation system, compass, or maps on the leaking, overcrowded boat.

The migrants also claimed that three children died due to dehydration before the group was rescued.

Once a country that received refugees, Lebanon has become a launching pad for dangerous migration by sea to Europe, as it struggles with an economic crisis over the past three years that has pulled three-quarters of its population into poverty.

There has been an increase in migrants seeking to travel on unsafe boats from troubled Lebanon to Italy, and Greek authorities have performed several rescues in recent weeks.

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Chehayeb reported from Beirut, Lebanon.

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Follow AP's global migration coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/migration

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A group of 61 migrants picked up by a cargo ship from a crippled fishing boat in the central Mediterranean have safely reached the island of Crete hours after a severely ill child on the freighter died while being airlifted to Greece, Greek authorities said Wednesday.

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A boat carrying the bodies of 10 migrants arrived, along with others that were rescued, in Sicily, Italy. CARMELO IMBESI/EPA-EFE/Shutterst

ROME - A boat carrying the bodies of 10 migrants found dead at sea arrived in Sicily on Friday, along with dozens of people it rescued this week as they tried to cross the Mediterranean.

The crew of the Geo Barents vessel, run by charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), found the corpses on an overcrowded boat 30 nautical miles off the Libyan coast.

They are believed to have died from suffocation after spending 13 hours on the boat's lower deck where there was an intense smell of fuel, MSF said in a statement.

Some 186 people rescued in three separate operations in international waters will disembark in Messina, a port on the southern Italian island, MSF said.

The migrants - mostly from Africa - include 61 minors, the youngest aged just 10 months.

"We hope they will get all the assistance they need," MSF said on Twitter, adding those who died will now have "a decent burial".

The crew of the Geo Barents vessel found the corpses on an overcrowded boat 30 nautical miles off the Libyan coast.

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The deceased passengers are believed to have died from suffocation after spending 13 hours on the boat's lower deck, which was in result of an intense smell of fuel.

EPA

Italy has seen a sharp increase in boat migrants in recent weeks and the latest mass arrivals will put further pressure on Prime Minister Mario Draghi's government to secure an agreement with European Union partners over how to deal with the influx.

Some 59,702 migrants have disembarked in Italy this year, according to interior ministry data, up from 32,476 in the same period in 2020.

MSF said over 1,200 people had died during the perilous sea journey to reach Europe so far in 2021.

Migrants wait to disembark the ship 'Geo Barents' run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) as it is given permission to dock at the Sicilian port of Augusta.

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For most of the news sources that reported on migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea, regardless of the political bias, they tended to focus on the same facts and report many of the same stories.

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Could Europe be witnessing a MIGA (Make Italy Great Again) moment under the nationalist policies of Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini? According to Fox News, the latest plunge in migration numbers seem to suggest that Italy may have its own Trump.

"Italy's nationalist-populist government is hailing new numbers that show immigration into the country has plummeted dramatically within months of the government taking power, due to its refusal to accept NGO rescue boats of migrants coming from Africa," reports Fox News. "Official data show that in January 2018, 3,176 migrants landed on the Italian coast via boats. But in January 2019 that number was just 155."

The massive plunge in numbers stems from Salvini closing the ports to boats bringing migrants across the Mediterranean from Libya. "The data deny those who say that the Democratic Party had blocked the landings, we are doing more and better," he told Il Giornale. "For the first time, returns are greater than arrivals."

Other European leaders have harshly criticized Italy's ascendant nationalist policies. Most recently, French President Emmanuel Macron demanded that Salvini open the country's ports, prompting the Italian leader to publicly distance himself from Macron.

"The migrant problem has many causes," Salvini said, according to Italian news agency ANSA. "In Africa, some take away wealth from the people and the Continent and France is among them."

Salvini accused France of having "no interest in stabilizing" the situation in places like Libya, adding that France "has little to get angry about because it has turned back thousands of migrants, including women and children, at the border."

"I don't take lessons on humanity and generosity from Macron," Salvini later added.

Despite the pressure, Salvini's government has continued its hardline stance on immigration. Just last week, an NGO migrant rescue boat carrying 47 people was rerouted off the coast of Italy over to France.

"After that, I invite it to point the bow towards Marseilles and land people on French soil instead of waiting unnecessarily in Italian waters for days," Salvini's coalition counterpart Luigi Di Maio said via Facebook. "The Mediterranean is not only about Italy, Greece or Spain. But France too. And it has to do its part."

Italian news agency ANSA says an agreement was later reached for the 47 migrants to be distributed to Germany France, Portugal, Romania and Malta.

The migrant crisis in Italy has largely stemmed from the country's dwindling birthrate, which could result in a population crash by 2065.

According to the Italian Statistics Bureau (ISTAT), Italy's population will drop a total of 10% between 2017 and 2065 - 60.6 million to 54.1 million. "Taking into account the variability associated with demographic events, the population estimate by 2065 ranges from a minimum of 46.4 million to a maximum of 62," they report. "The chance of a population increase scenario by 2065 is 9%."

The news comes as Italy's birthrate continues to decline. In 2010, the birthrate stood at 1.46 children per woman; it now stands at just 1.34. Even if the birthrate were to increase in accordance with projections, it "will not be enough to offset projected deaths."

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The majority of the tweets using the search "#mediterranean migrants" are a mix between news sources, humanitarian organizations, and individuals sharing stories about migrants from Africa and the Middle East trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea which often results in many fatalities.

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October is Pedestrian Safety Awareness Month, and the Prince William County Police Department is urging pedestrians to follow best roadway practices due to an increase in traffic-related crashes.

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October is Pedestrian Safety Awareness Month, and the Prince William County Police Department is urging pedestrians to follow best roadway practices due to an increase in traffic-related crashes.

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BOURJ HAMMOUD, Lebanon (AP) - Jihad Michlawi struggled to make ends meet as a chef in crisis-hit Beirut. The Palestinian had never considered taking a perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe until friends who did so persuaded him to try.

Now, he's one of dozens of survivors from a capsized migrant boat that left Tripoli, Lebanon, last week heading toward Italy carrying some 150 Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians.

"Some people who arrived told me that life in a European displacement camp was better than life in central Beirut, and that even the food was better," Michlawi told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The crowded boat capsized Sept. 21 off the coast of Tartus, Syria, just over a day after departing Lebanon. At least 94 people were killed, among them at least 24 children. Twenty people survived and the rest remain missing.

It was one of the deadliest ship sinkings in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in recent years, as more and more Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians try to flee cash-strapped Lebanon to Europe to find jobs and stability. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says risky sea migration attempts from Lebanon over the past year have surged by 73%.

Lebanon's economy has spiraled for a third year, with three-quarters of the population plunged into poverty and the Lebanese pound losing 90% of its value against the dollar.

Michlawi, 31, said he scraped together thousands of dollars and handed the money to a smuggler, whom he described as a "monster." The Lebanese military has since arrested the smuggler.

Michlawi left the Lebanese capital for Tripoli at night, and a car with tinted windows drove him and five others to an orange grove, where he and dozens of others were crammed into pickup trucks covered with a tarp.

After reaching the coast and seeing the small boat that would carry them, many began to have second thoughts. "At this point we just thought we might as well go since we got there, but we probably should have considered the danger we put ourselves in," he said.

The boat's engine began stalling intermittently, but when it completely stopped the following day, the tide started rocking the crowded vessel, as the anxious passengers began to panic, Michlawi said.

Michlawi and the others tried to move around the boat to keep it from tilting. The large waves knocked Michlawi into the wall and onto the floor several times. Breaking glass pierced his left foot.

Then, a large wave knocked dozens of people off the boat and into the water where they drowned. Michlawi recalled seeing the body of an infant who he said no older than two months. At that point, he and the others decided they ought to risk swimming for hours to get to shore.

Michlawi couldn't hold back his tears after recounting his unsuccessful attempt to save a 22-year-old Syrian named Ayman Kabbani who struggled to swim.

"He held me while he tried to swim with me, and whenever he would be tired, I would hold him and try to swim with one hand," Michlawi said. "With all the salt water in our eyes and the heat of the sun, we could barely see."

The young Syrian tried to boost Michlawi's morale, promising to treat him to lunch, buy new clothes, and get him a new phone with the money he has left once they reach Tripoli. But the Palestinian struggled to keep going.

Kabbani tried to swim on his own but couldn't keep up with Michlawi. "I heard him calling for me, but I would turn around and not see him," Michlawi said. "At this point, I came to terms with the fact I was going to die and meet my maker, but then I saw the image of my father."

Michlawi miraculously reached the coast of Tartus, Syria, where an elderly woman and man saw him. "I screamed, 'Please don't leave me' and fell on the sand," he said. "She gave me water, and I heard the man next to her say I was coughing blood, and then I passed out and woke up at the hospital in Tartus." He woke up covered in gashes and bruises.

Although safely back in Lebanon, Michlawi now faces an additional hurdle as he tries to find work because he is Palestinian.

Lebanon is home to tens of thousands of descendants of Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes in the 1948 Mideast war over Israel's creation. Palestinian refugees in Lebanon cannot legally work in dozens of professions or own property. According to UNICEF, they are "effectively excluded from enjoying most civil and socio-economic rights" in Lebanon, where many live under appalling conditions in refugee camps that today resemble urban slums.

Several of Michlawi's family members hold college degrees but must work other jobs for far less money, including a cousin with a degree in mechanical engineering who works as a bus driver.

Despite this, he says he wouldn't try to migrate by sea again.

"We're not asking for mansions or to become generals or ministers in the government," Michlawi said. "We just want our basic rights as Palestinian people to sustain ourselves - that is all."

For now, he's trying to heal.

Michlawi says he hasn't slept for days and is still haunted by the "voices of the children screaming" in his head. He struggles to eat and avoids being anywhere near the coast.

"I used to love the sea, but now I avoid it," he said. "I don't even want to have a coffee at the beach anymore."

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The Washington Post is another one of my local newspapers, and it offers reports about world news and events. It covers stories from around the world as well as local stories from Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.

There are various articles about migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea, however, the most recent article is from 2020 which shows that this topic is not as relative as it once was.

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France24 is a state-owned news television network based in Paris that broadcasts world news.
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Even though these news sources are from different countries, they all reported many of the same stories and provided the same unbiased facts - usually taken from a news wire.

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It was somewhat surprising to me that politically different news sources were reporting the same facts and stories about the migration occurring in the Mediterranean given how widely migration and immigration is contested in the U.S.

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I found the news wires very easy to read since they only reported what actually happened with no need to look between the lines in order to separate fact from opinion.

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I wasn't surprised that my town's and county's newspapers don't report on world news especially because there are other major newspapers such as The Washington Post that are also pretty local to my area.

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Some of the Facebook pages that I found that were related to migrants in the Mediterranean were for charity organizations that aimed to share the stories of migrants and raise awareness to the issue.

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Overall, there's not much reporting going on about this topic compared to other global issues.