Italy, Malta Ask for Help with Migrants

Italy and Malta have appealed for more assistance from other European states to help manage the sharp increase of arrivals of boat loads of refugees from sub-Saharan and northern Africa and the Middle East on their shores this year. The United Nations refugee agency estimates 32,000 migrants have arrived in Malta and Italy this year. Italy said Monday it is stepping up its naval and air patrols in the Mediterranean in an attempt to prevent repeats of the shipwrecks that have drowned ...

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