The Spanish coast guard has confirmed that they rescued 283 migrants from several boats on Tuesday and Wednesday as they approached the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Among the new arrivals, one dead body was found on board.
Following two nights of fires at the Greek migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, the authorities are providing temporary accommodation on board navy ships, ferries and in new tents being flown in. Thousands of the former residents s1
The Italian government answered pleas from the island's mayor by removing some people from camps there. The migrants, 220 of whom were infected with COVID-19, will quarantine on large ferries before disembarking in Sicily.
With thousands now displaced from Greece's largest migrant camp, several German states are again offering to take in many of the refugees. They face one big problem: getting permission from Merkel's government.
Firefighters have tried to contain new blazes at Moria just a day after thousands of refugees fled fires at the camp. Critics have called on the EU to rethink migration policy, calling the fire a "political disaster."