Brussels, 30/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - Italian coastguards announced in the evening of Monday 29 June that, in the previous 48 hours, they had rescued 4,400 migrants off the coast of Libya and taken them on to Sicily and the south of the country.
These latest arrivals take the number of people who have reached Italy to 69,000 since the start of the year, according to International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimates. On Sunday 28 June, coastguards coordinated the rescue of 21 vessels...