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Last Fake Charity Invasion Taxi Ship Stops Operating in Mediterranean
The last fully operational fake charity invasion taxi ship, the Aquarius, has had its operations finally cancelled and there are no longer any major pro-invasion vessels picking up Africans off the Libyan coast and shuttling them to Europe.
In a statement released by the “Doctors Without Borders/SOS Méditerranée” (MSF) organization in Europe, the termination of the Aquarius’s work was blamed...
Libyan Human Smugglers Colluding with EU Charities
The smugglers engaged in setting up the swarms of boats carrying fake refugees across the Mediterranean Sea into Europe are actively colluding with crews on “rescue ships” to facilitate the invasion, it has emerged.
News of the collusion—which takes the form of the smugglers advising “rescue” ships run by charities and the European Union by radio of the invasion boats’ position, was revealed...
Monstrous sinkhole swallows car in Sicily moments after parking
An enormous sinkhole suddenly opened up on a road in Sicily, Italy, swallowing a parked car. The driver miraculously escaped harm, having left the vehicle seconds before it sank underground.
The eight-meter-wide hole opened up on a road in the town of Valverde, Catania province on Wednesday. It was most probably caused by days of heavy rains drenching the island. Luckily the female driver had enough...
Over 800 illegal immigrants heading to Italy from Libya die in shipwreck
An Italian Navy officer gives instructions to migrants waiting to disembark from Italian Navy ship “Driade” in Messina’s port, Sicily, Italy, April 18, 2015.
The UN refugee agency has confirmed that 800 people lost their lives in a ship accident in the Mediterranean Sea this weekend.
“We can say that 800 are dead,” said Carlotta Sami, a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner...
US moves Marines to Italy as situation in Libya becomes tense
Two hundred United States Marines are being mobilized from a base in Spain to an Italian site neighboring Libya where an Army raid over the weekend resulted in the capture of suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist, Abu Anas al-Libi.
CNN reported early Tuesday that a US military official confirmed the repositioning of 200 heavily armed Marines to the naval base at Sigonella, Italy, a Sicilian fort south of Catania...
92 African illegal immigrants die in boat incident near Italy
At least 92 people died in an incident where a boat carrying some 500 illegal immigrants caught fire and capsized near an Italian island in what seems like a never ending flood of illegal immigrants who desperately want to move to the EU.
Emergency workers found 92 bodies, including those of two children and several women, after the deadly boat incident on Thursday, Italy’s news agency ANSA cited...
Floods sweep through Greece and Italy, 1 dead
Unusually heavy rains have caused floods in Greece and southern Italy with torrents of water strong enough to carry away vehicles. One woman died of shock after being trapped in her car surrounded by raging waters.
In Athens a woman in her 20s died of a heart attack prompted by a shock when she became trapped in her car by floodwaters. Another woman was rescued from her stranded vehicle as streams...
"Racist" couples barred from adopting children in Italy
An Italian couple’s adoption bid was denied after they said in their application that they did not want “dark-skinned” children.
An appeal court in Sicily ruled that the couple were unfit to adopt children of any description, local media reported.
A child protection agency took the couple to court after they submitted an application in Catania, in eastern Sicily, saying they were...