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It manifests itself not just through donations, but also through a number of private initiatives aimed at providing support to people when they arrive in Germany in a direct and down-to-earth manner.

Milan have announced the signing of midfielder Juraj Kucka from Genoa.

Calm weather has encouraged the smugglers to get as many people as possible out to sea, they will be picked up by Italian boats.

Rescuers have saved about 3,000 refugees but found more than 50 dead on boats near the coast of Libya, according to the Italian coastguard.

The crowds, including many infants, waited with little food and water under a scorching Sunday.

Along with the 313 people rescued from the fishing boat and the 49 bodies, the Siem Pilot was also carrying 103 migrants from a separate rescue by a German ship, AFP reports.

Other migrants have complained of preferential treatment.

Spindler noted that Greece faces an economic crisis, but called on its government to help global organizations like UNHCR take a more active role in places like the overburdened island of Kos.

Deputy Mayor of Catania Marco Consoli told the AP on Monday that the show would be canceled out of respect for the dead and that a white balloon would be released for each of the victims instead.

Vessels from the Italian and Irish navies and humanitarian agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) saved about 400 people from the fishing boat, thought to have been carrying up to 600 people, mostly Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war.

Seven of the dead were transported to the Navy ship, but the remainder of the bodies are still in the hold as the Italian Navy tows the boat into the Italian Island of Lampedusa.

The island is the latest flashpoint in Europe’s migrant crisis as tempers between different nationalities flared yesterday, causing migrants to scuffle amongst each other before being beaten back by police.

One of the closest Greek islands to the Turkish mainland, Kos resembles an apparently attractive choice for illegal migrants attempting to cross into Europe – although the reality of Kos is quite different. In the first seven months of 2015 alone, Greece has experienced a...

Hundreds of Syrian migrants have begun to board a giant passenger ferry on the Greek island of Kos – which will provide them with temporary accommodation.

At least 40 migrants have died in the hold of an overcrowded smuggling boat north of Libya, thought to have been killed by fuel fumes.