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900 refugees killed last week in Mediterranean Sea: UN

Tuesday, 31 May 2016 8:14 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 31 May 2016 8:14 PM ]

This file photo taken on May 24, 2016 shows migrants and refugees during a rescue operation at sea of the Aquarius, a former North Atlantic fisheries protection ship now used by humanitarians SOS Mediterranee and Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), on May 24, 2016 in the Mediterranean sea in front of the Libyan coast. ©AFP

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The UN says some 900 refugees were killed in the past week, in a series of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea.
A memorial ceremony is held in Gaza to mark the 6th anniversary of Israel’s attack on the first Gaza freedom flotilla which killed nine activists.
Amnesty International says the number of internally displaced Afghans has doubled to one-point-two million over the past three years.
Belgians rally against the government’s austerity measures following a strike by public sector workers that’s caused travel chaos.
Germany warns that Britain’s possible exit from the EU would create a negative dynamic among the bloc’s member states.

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