Italy refuses to take in boat with 450 migrants, tells them to 'go to Malta'

A boat carrying 160 migrants sunk off the coast of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, killing 16 people, Turkish media reported on Wednesday, adding that 101 migrants had so far been rescued. It said 103 migrants were rescued by boats and helicopters of the Turkish and northern Cypriot coast guards, helped by commercial boats in the area, from the sunken boat some 30 km (18 miles) off the north Cyprus coast. An Open Arms lifeguard gives a thumbs-up to a migrant at the other end of a rubber boat in the Mediterranean Sea, June 30, 2018

Nineteen people drowned when a boat loaded with as many as 150 people who were thought to be migrants capsized off the northern coast of Cyprus, a Turkish Cypriot official said Wednesday.
A migrant boat capsizes off the northern coast of Cyprus, killing at least 19 people, while 25 are reported missing, and the Turkish coast guard rescues 103.