Sea-Watch

Germany’s Sea-Watch rescue boat to resume migrant missions in the Mediterranean

German charity Sea-Watch EV announced it would return as soon as it could to the area north of the Libyan coast to help migrants at sea after winning an Italian…

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Migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 changes flag from Dutch to German

The rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, which has been detained by Italian authorities on multiple occasions, said that it would no longer be registered in the Netherlands and would instead fly…

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Carola Rackete presents her book ‘Acting instead of hope’

Carola Rackete attends a press conference on the occasion of her new coming book 'Acting instead of hope' in Berlin, Germany, 30 October 2019. Rackete, the captain of Sea Watch…

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Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete hearing at EU parliament

Carola Rackete, German captain of rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, addresses a European Parliament Committee's public hearing on the situation of Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean in view of latest…

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Salvini investigated for defaming Sea-Watch captain Rackete

Former interior minister and anti-migrant League party leader Matteo Salvini was placed under investigation Thursday on suspicion of defaming Carla Rackete, the German skipper of the migrant rescue NGO ship…

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Persons aboard Alan Kurdi to enter Malta and redistributed in Germany, France, Portugal and Luxembourg

Forty migrants rescued by a German NGO vessel will be allowed in to Malta and then redistributed among EU member states, a government spokesman told Times of Malta late…

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Italy to fine migrant rescue ships €1 million

NGO run migrant rescue ships will be fined up to one million euros for defying a ban on entering Italian waters under a new League amendment to the government's second…

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Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete faces Italy prosecutor over migrants

German captain Carola Rackete, who sparked international headlines by forcibly docking in an Italian port with rescued migrants, faces questioning by an Italian prosecutor on Thursday over allegedly aiding illegal…

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Who is Alan Kurdi?

In February 2019 the rescue ship Professor Albrecht Penck of the German sea rescue organization Sea-Eye was renamed to Alan Kurdi . Following a serious confrontation, similar to the one in early July…

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Italy: The Sea-Watch saga exposes the societal changes, polarisation at the detriment of analysis and reason

Italy’s tussle with the Sea-Watch migrant rescue ship is a textbook case of politics in the age of Matteo Salvini. For weeks the hardline minister railed at the boat’s captain;…

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Sea Watch captain to sue Salvini

The Sea Watch captain Carola Rackete announced she would sue Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for instigating hatred and crimes, after she received rape threats on social media.…

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Sea-Watch ship captain moved to secret location after threats

Carola Rackete, the German captain of a rescue charity ship, has received threats and has been moved to a secret location, the German charity Sea-Watch said on Wednesday. An Italian…

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Sea Watch ignores orders to stop, anchors in front of Lampedusa

The Sea-Watch 3 migrant-rescue ship on Wednesday defied an order from a tax police motor launch to stop and pressed on until it came close to the port of…

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Sea-Watch crew defies Italian orders and enters country’s waters

Migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch defied an order from Rome authorities and has decided to enter Italian waters, the vessels' crew said on Twitter on Wednesday (26 June). The German charity…

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Sea Watch case taken to the European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said Monday it has received a request from the migrant search-and-rescue vessel Sea Watch 3 for the ECHR to implement interim measures asking…

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Italy holds Netherlands, EU ‘responsible’ for Sea Watch 3 issue

Italy's interior minister Matteo Salvini said he is holding the Netherlands and the European Union "responsible" for the fate of 42 migrants on board the Sea Watch 3. The Italian…

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Sea Watch kidnapping case against Salvini shelved

A Catania probe into Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for allegedly kidnapping migrants aboard the Sea-Watch3 NGO rescue ship in January has been shelved. About the case, Salvini said that…

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Italy lets 10 stranded migrants disembark, moves to ban rescue ships from its waters

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini allowed 10 of the 53 migrants stranded on the Sea-Watch 3 rescue ship to disembark but pressed ahead with plans to ban such boats…

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Kidnapping charges in SeaWatch standoff

Rome prosecutors have come to the conclusion that there are elements to proceed with kidnapping charges in the case of the SeaWatch 3 migrant rescue ship The ship had…

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Italy’s coastguard blocks Sea Watch 3 in Catania’s port

Italy’s coastguard on Friday blocked the Sea-Watch 3 migrant rescue ship in the port of Catania citing safety and environmental concerns, delaying the vessel’s plans to return to patrolling the…

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Sea Watch lodge urgent complaint against Italy with European Court for Human Rights

Sea Watch lodged an urgent complaint against Italy with the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) on Monday after a ship it runs, the Sea Watch 3, was denied port…

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Renzi praises Maltese Prime Minister Muscat’s leadership in contrast with the lack of shown by the Italian governing triad

Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi praised Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat while criticising the current Italian triad of Conte, Salvini, and Di Maio about the recent stand-off in the…

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The Sea Watch Journey to Malta – The Malta Independent

The captain of one of two NGO rescue ships currently stranded off Malta has told The Malta Independent that it was the Libyan coastguard that instructed the vessel to head…

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Malta News portals Evening Review

Good evening, Malta's news portals are dominated by the Sea-Watch saga and statements on the matter made by the Prime Minister, Interior Minister and the Pope on the Sea-Watch saga…

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Malta’s Prime Minister says country will not become centre in the Mediterranean for saved migrants which no other country is allowing to enter

The Maltese Prime Minister has stressed that he is not going to allow that Malta become a centre in the Mediterranean for migrants who were saved by humanitarian vessels and…

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Malta News Evening Roundup

Good evening These are the main stories from Malta as reported by Malta's news portals. Adrian Delia vowed to remain leader of the Nationalist Party in a rhythmic Facebook post…

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Sea-Watch 3 given permission to move closer to Malta in view of adverse conditions – No permission for disembarkation yet

The Sea-Watch 3, which has 32 rescued migrants on board, was on Wednesday given permission to move closer to Malta so that the vessel could take shelter from bad weather…

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Malta’s armed forces rescue 180 migrants off Malta’s coast

The Armed Forces of Malta have successfully rescued 180 migrants off the coast of Malta. The rescue operations carried out during the night involved two separate vessels. MaltaToday reports that…

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Sea-Watch calls for safe port for the 33 migrants on board in the Mediterranean

It is not a sos, but almost. And it is launched via Twitter. It reads like this: "We need a safe port" The NGO Sea Watch, whose ship is now…

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