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Local resident trying to extinguish fires in the region of Pyrgiotika, in Nafplion, in Greece, August 25, 2011. | Photo: EPA / EVANGELOS BOUGIOTIS
The Civil Guard union AUGC tweeted this photo with a message of support for 'our colleagues anchored with the Río Tajo patrol boat in Nouadhibou Bay with 170 migrants rescued from canoes'. | Source: X(Twitter)/@AUGC_Comunica
Newcomers wait in the port in the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy, August 27, 2023. The hotspot facility is well over capacity | Photo: Reuters/Tony Colapinto
Mytilene, Lesbos: Migrants disembark from a Greek coast vessel after a rescue operation on Monday, August 28. Greek authorities say four people died and 18 were rescued after their boat sank northeast of Lesbos | Photo: picture alliance/AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas
Oxfam has warned that a water crisis is looming in the near future due to climate change across wide swathes of Africa and the Middle East | Photo: Oxfam