EU Action Sought After Latest Migrant Deaths

Italian rescuers continued to search early Monday for survivors in what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known tragedy, raising pressure anew on the European Union to meet demands for decisive action on the growing crisis. As many as 700 migrants were feared dead early Monday after their 20-meter-long boat capsized in the Mediterranean, about 70 miles from the Libyan coast and south of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, as a large merchant ship approached it. If the...

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