Shipwreck off Libya’s coast threatens to be deadliest incident in the Mediterranean this year.
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![Nearly 700 deaths have been recorded in the Mediterranean so far this year, according to the UN [File: Santi Palacios/AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2019/7/25/1945adac91c34d2cb957615851233b1b_18.jpg "Over 100 migrants, refugees feared drowned in Mediterranean Sea")
EU politics
The Globe Post: Catalan Separatists on Trial Pay Price for Spain’s Crude Transition to Democracy
Watching the trials of the Catalan independentists now taking place at Spain’s highest court in Madrid, I have been reminded again and again of a scene from director Hal Ashby’s marvelous 1979 movie Being There. Read here
Geopolitics
Branko Marcetic – Israel’s Assault on Gaza Is Unlike Any War in Recent Memory
From the rate and scale of civilian slaughter to the killing of protected groups and the type of munitions, Israel’s war on Gaza is an exceptionally brutal campaign unlike almost anything we’ve seen. In ‘Jacobin’. […]
EU politics
Irish Times – Irish Foreign Minister: Israel’s ‘disinformation campaign’ against Unrwa must not ‘undermine’ its ‘life-saving mandate’
Israel is carrying out a “disinformation campaign” against the UN Palestinian refugee agency, Unrwa, and one country “must not be allowed to undermine” the organisation’s “life-saving mandate” in the Gaza Strip, the Tánaiste has said. […]
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