"Pakistan sörjer minst 300 personer som sägs ha omkommit på Medelhavet förra veckan. Det är fortsatt svårt att säga exakt hur många som drunknade när en överfylld migrantbåt sjönk utanför Grekland."
Se även https://www.collettiva.it/copertine/internazionale/2023/06/16/podcast/strage-migranti-mai-fatalita-3158675/ : i moltiplicano le testimonianze e i video che confermerebbero l'ipotesi di un colpevole ritardo degli interventi della Guardia costiera greca durante l'affondamento del barcone con a bordo circa 750 migranti al largo delle coste del Peloponneso lo scorso 13 giugno.
"Tämän vuoden aikana noin 72 000 pakolaista ja siirtolaista on YK:n tilaston mukaan tullut Välimeren maihin Italiaan, Espanjaan, Kreikkaan, Maltalle ja Kyprokselle." (HS 14.6.: "Kymmeniä siirtolaisia hukkui matkalla Libyasta Italiaan Kreikka on julistanut kolmen päivän suruajan onnettomuuden vuoksi."
"Orient XXI is neither a daily news website nor an academic organ reserved for specialists. We want it to be ‘in-between’, aimed at a large and varied public interested in the region for many different reasons – at students as much as people with relatives or friends on the other shore, at men and women involved on a daily basis in the countless economic, cultural, and interpersonal networks linking North and South."
by Vijay Prashad
The war on Libya in 2010 was Hillary Clinton’s most powerful experience. When the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi was killed on the outskirts of Sirte, she said: “We came, we saw, he died.” It was a callous display of U.S. power. It is a window to how Hillary Clinton would govern as President: with an iron fist against any challenge to U.S. power.
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