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Photographer captures dramatic images of migrants rescued at sea
More than 11,000 African migrants were rescued trying to cross the Mediterranean this week. A photographer on one of the boats off Libya’s coast captured a dramatic rescue.
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenAntónio Guterres, who spent 10 years as the UN’s refugee chief, has been picked to become the next Secretary General of the UN. Meanwhile, more than 11,000 African migrants were rescued trying to cross the Mediterranean this week. Aris Messinis is a photographer with Agence France Presse who was on one of the rescue boats off the Libyan coast this week. His pictures of the ordeal appear in the New York Times in a photo essay titled “Stepping Over the Dead on a Migrant Boat.”
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5 storiesPhotographer captures dramatic images of migrant rescue at sea
Refugees and migrants continue to flee their home countries. Another wave of African migrants attempted to cross the Mediterranean this week and more than 11,000 of them were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard and aid groups.
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