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Pine room and a secret jewel: Japan abdication rituals

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Pine room and a secret jewel: Japan abdication rituals

Kate Howard - April 26, 2019

JAPAN Japan has waited more than two centuries for an emperor to abdicate, but the main ceremony to perform...

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Panic as Trump orders mass deportation from US next week

Panic as Trump orders mass deportation from US next week

June 19, 2019

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Artemisia: plant behind Madagascar’s purported virus cure

May 23, 2020

Manchester United’s Matteo Darmian says he misses Serie A

December 10, 2018

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Congo declares end to latest Ebola outbreak in the east

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sky news africa In the year up through July 2015, some 175,000 migrants were plucked to safety in the Mediterranean from smugglers’ boats and brought to Italy. From August 2016 through July 2017, the number was even higher — about 183,000. In the last few years, Italian authorities have made it difficult for humanitarian rescue ships operating in the central Mediterranean Sea. Some of the charity boats have ended up impounded in Italian ports for technical reasons. And when anti-migrant leader Matteo Salvini was Italy’s interior minister in the previous government, humanitarian rescue boats were sometimes kept at sea for days or weeks at a time with migrants aboard while waiting permission to disembark. Commenting on the latest figures, Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said many of those setting out from Tunisia in small boats and reaching Italy are Tunisians determined to escape economic hardship in their homeland, not refugees fleeing conflict. She and Italy’s foreign minister will visit Tunisia on Monday, along with two European Union commissioners, to try to boost solidarity with Tunisia and its “young democracy,” Lamorgese said. While thousands of migrants, many from sub-Saharan Africa, still set out for Europe from lawless Libya, where human traffickers have been based for years, according to Italy’s latest figures more migrants reached Italy by sea from Tunisia than from Libya. Italy has a repatriation agreement with Tunisia that allows Italian authorities to relatively quickly send back to Tunisia those found ineligible for asylum.

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Migrants increasingly reaching Italy by sea from Tunisia

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Protesters return to the streets of Khartoum