Spain, Ireland, Malta and Slovenia are expected to make the move, which will hold historic symbolism.
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez says declarations on Palestine will be made “when the conditions are appropriate”.
Eight other people were injured and 21 were rescued by Malta’s armed forces.
The volunteers of Humanity 1 race against time on every mission they take to save the lives of those stranded at sea.
Using information provided by Frontex and Malta, a Libyan group linked to Wagner is illegally pulling back refugees.
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Ex-PM Muscat hails migrant workers, but experts decry apparent double standard as asylum seekers are pushed back.
The summit comes after the UN says 2,500 people had perished or disappeared crossing the Mediterranean this year.
UN refugee agency says ‘no end in sight’ to the lives lost in Mediterranean and on land routes to sea departure points.
Abdalla, Amara and Kader helped authorities defuse a tense situation on a boat with asylum seekers. Their reward? Jail.
Manning a homonymous vessel, the Tareq Bin Zeyad ventures outside Libya’s search and rescue area to pull back boats.
NGO Emergency says Maltese authorities so far failed to heed calls for a rescue as boat takes on water in bad weather.
Delays in rescuing people at sea aren’t a European policy failure. They are a deliberate, cruel strategy.
International NGOs find that the Maltese government breached a part of the 1951 Geneva Convention.
Two brothers plead guilty to murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, an anti-corruption journalist killed in a car bombing.
