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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10389

31 May 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
New immigrants arrive in Lampedusa - Tension between Italy and Malta

Brussels, 30/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - After several days in limbo, some 1,450 immigrants, mostly refugees from Libya, arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Friday night, Saturday morning, according to reports by AFP, quoting coastguards and customs police. Some 609 individuals, including 41 women and 7 children, were rescued by speedboats off the southern coast of Lampedusa from a ship with a broken rudder. A total of 138 other immigrants were rescued by boats sent out by the port...

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