Mediterranean migrant crisis articles
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Charges dropped against suspects in Mediterranean migrant boat disaster
The nine men suspected of the organisation of a large-scale migrant smuggling operation that ended in tragedy have been acquitted as incident occurred in international waters.
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An AP photographer covers the migrant crisis at the border with sensitivity and compassion
Gregory Bull started covering the U.S.-Mexico border in 1994 as a newspaper photographer at the Brownsville Herald in Texas
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Mediterranean migrant boat disaster: men on trial are ‘scapegoats’, say lawyers
Survivors of shipwreck that killed 600 people not ‘real smugglers’, say defenders, with inquiry into coastguard’s role also incompleteNine men accused of causing one of the deadliest shipwrecks to have taken place in the Mediterranean are “scapegoats” who should never have been prosecuted, defence lawyers have said, before their long-awaited trial in Greece.The Egyptian suspects, who have been held in pre-trial detention since the 14 June disaster last year, will appear in court in the southern...