The tug probably foundered in heavy seas and 40-knot winds, according to the Icelandic Coastguard (Royal Navy/ Icelandic Coastguard)
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Coastguard boats and army helicopters headed to the vicinity of Polillo island, trying to take advantage of daylight, coastguard spokesman Armand Balilo told media.
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People-smugglers in Morocco use a rights activist to contact the coastguard, advising it when boats set off for Spain, said coastguard official Oriol Estrada.
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Coastguard and naval ships as well as two privately owned tugs rescued the people from four boats in the central Mediterranean, the coastguard said in a statement.
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Greece summoned Turkey's ambassador on Wednesday to lodge a complaint after the Greek coastguard said one of its vessels had been rammed deliberately by a Turkish coastguard boat.
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Fifteen people, 10 men, four women and a child, were rescued, and Greek coastguard vessels were searching for another six to eight people missing, a Greek coastguard official said.
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The ship, along with a sister vessel also yet to enter service, are larger than two Japanese coastguard vessels which are the world's largest active coastguard ships, the newspaper added.
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DIKILI, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's coastguard rescued around 120 migrants trying to reach a Greek island on three dinghies early on Friday after they said their passage was blocked by Greek coastguard vessels.
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Coastguard vessels and other boats rescued almost 700 people who had managed to get to the shoreline and pulled another 19 survivors and six dead bodies from the sea, the coastguard said.
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On Thursday, coastguard vessels, merchant ships and a boat run by the aid group Doctors Without Borders rescued people from 14 rubber dinghies and 4 wooden boats, the coastguard said in a statement.
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The six are believed to have been on two fishing vessels, one of which was overturned, when they were rescued by the South Korean coastguard and the navy on Saturday, the coastguard said.
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The boat queasily rocking as they spotted the Greek coastguard.
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Some are intercepted and turned back by the Libyan coastguard.
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The coastguard did not give any details about the migrants.
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Italy's coastguard did not reply to a request for comment.
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More than 100 coastguard personnel are stationed on Itu Aba.
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Police and the coastguard questioning the crew declined to comment.
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They were taken to Almeria and Malaga, the coastguard added.
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Italy's coastguard declined to estimate how many may have died.
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The coastguard picked up 16 survivors from the boat just east of the capital, one of whom said the vessel had set off with 120-125 migrants on board, according to a coastguard statement.
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The coastguard gave no details about the six dead it found.
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They were hoisted out of the water by the Greek coastguard.
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At half past midnight, the Italian coastguard has still not come.
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The Italian coastguard received a distress call at about 10 a.m.
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Disputes are also brewing between the Libyan coastguard and aid groups.
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Most Chinese coastguard ships are unarmed or only have water cannons.
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The coastguard plane went down in bad weather and low visibility.
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It was the first such flight near the islands witnessed by Japanese officials, although Thursday's incident takes to 13 the number of intrusions this year by Chinese coastguard ships in the contested waters, Japan's coastguard said.
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The British coastguard said in a statement that it was assisting Guernsey Coastguard with a search for a light aircraft missing off Alderney in the Channel Islands, but that the plane had not yet been found.
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In the evening the Italian coastguard brings 196 more people on board.
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Separately, the coastguard said it had recovered the bodies of three people.
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IOM also had reports that Libya's coastguard had turned back 850 migrants.
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Libya's coastguard denied in a statement it abandoned the raft at sea.
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Salvini said Italy would give 20 patrol boats to the Libyan coastguard.
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The navy has routinely denied accusations that its coastguard members abuse migrants.
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In 2011 a Chinese fisherman stabbed a South Korean coastguard to death.
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Meanwhile, the Italian coastguard rescued around 6,500 migrants on a single day.
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A coastguard helicopter was summoned, but by then it was too late.
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"The police and coastguard ... are working to clarify the situation," he said.
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The coastguard and the navy said they could not confirm the number.
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Turkey's coastguard rescued about 120 migrants, including small children, early on Friday.
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Italy's Coastguard coordinates all sea rescues from a Rome-based control center.
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On his last attempt his boat was intercepted by the Libyan coastguard.
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The Italian coastguard and Interior Ministry were not immediately available for comment.
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He said a passenger had sent a distress signal which alerted the coastguard.
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One coastguard official said separately the captain was charged and released pending trial.
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The journey, according to the Italian coastguard, is expected to take four days.
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The Italian coastguard will transfer 196 more people on board in two boats.
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It headed north, followed by the Libyan coastguard vessel, the Reuters photographer said.
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"The rescue operation for the two others is continuing," the coastguard official said.
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Sonar image of the Empire Wold on the seabed (Royal Navy/Icelandic Coastguard)
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Asya watched, horrified, from the smaller coastguard boat in the now dawn light.
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The Libyan coastguard said it intercepted some 600 migrants on boats on Thursday.
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"We don't know how many people were on board," the coastguard spokesman said.
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But Europe has delivered little concrete support, said Tarek Shanbour, a senior coastguard official.
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Another coastguard spokesman had previously said the second operation had rescued around 380 people.
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Italy has provided equipment and training to Libya's coastguard, which has stepped up patrols.
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Aided by Spanish lifesavers and the Greek coastguard, they reached Lesvos on February 28.
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"Absolutely nothing has been found so far," a senior Greek coastguard official told Reuters.
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Emirati commandos and the Indian coastguard caught up with them, 1,780 miles from Dubai.
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The coastguard command was brought under interior ministry control and its head was dismissed.
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One of the boats sank and the other was badly overcrowded, coastguard officials said.
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"The coordination with the Italian Coastguard is perfect, we never had problems," said Gatti.
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Macron, who visited Calais earlier this week, said that France cannot be Britain's coastguard.
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Earlier this month Italy started providing Libya technical and operational support to its coastguard.
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Late last year, a Chinese coastguard vessel with what appeared to be gun turrets entered territorial waters claimed by Japan near the islands, Japan's coastguard said, adding that it was the first such incursion by an armed Chinese vessel in the area.
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The operation involved the coastguard, navy, gendarmerie and was backed by air support, it said.
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Madrid is training more lifeguards to deal with the rising numbers, coastguard union officials say.
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A submersible was sent to the seabed to examine the wreck (Royal Navy/Icelandic Coastguard)
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No signs of an explosion were discovered at the wreck site (Royal Navy/Icelandic Coastguard)
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Rescue operations were continuing and the number was likely to rise, a coastguard spokesman said.
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Singapore police, who manage the island nation's coastguard, did not comment immediately on the incident.
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"I believe the Libyan coastguard is looking for other survivors off the coast," Headon added.
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Meanwhile on Friday, Italy's coastguard was recovering another 500 migrants, Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said.
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Their remoteness makes it hard to stop vessels entering illegally; Hawaii's coastguard is already stretched.
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It was impossible to speculate how many people might be unaccounted for, the coastguard said.
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The coastguard ship Diciotti has been docked in the port of Catania for two days.
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On Saturday, the coastguard said it had picked up 1,348 migrants in 11 rescue operations.
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When asked about the investigations into the NGO operations, a Coastguard spokesman declined to comment.
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The Turkish Coastguard gives chase to a migrant vessel and attempts to disable the raft.
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A spokesman for Libya's coastguard said Libya would not take in migrants from other countries.
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The Libyan coastguard said around 100 were thought to have drowned off Tripoli on Friday.
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Italy's coastguard said it helped rescue 801 migrants from two boats off western Sicily on Thursday.
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The Greek coastguard retrieved 35 bodies from the water, while the rest remain missing, they said.
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Under the February deal, Libya's coastguard has so far picked up about 20,000 migrants, including refugees.
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As Dignity 1 waits for the Italian coastguard, I spend a moment on the second deck.
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The 46-hectare (114-acre) island supports around 180 people, about 150 of them coastguard personnel.
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Italy's coastguard and navy tweeted that they had picked up the migrants from several different vessels.
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"Despite some bad weather and choppy sea conditions, the boats are coming," the coastguard spokesman said.
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It hasn't even withdrawn its coastguard vessels which, though well-behaved, continue to patrol the shoal.
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Meanwhile the Italians and the EU trained Libya's coastguard to pull back migrants fleeing for Europe.
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He said both countries had agreed on coastguard and fisheries cooperation, but did not give details.
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The coastguard has defended such actions, saying the shooting was to assert control over rescue operations.
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Just offshore, a coastguard boat approached what appeared to be a small vessel carrying more migrants.
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Libyan naval and coastguard patrols intercepted three separate boats carrying more than 450 migrants, officials said.
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Libya's EU-backed coastguard has also returned more migrants to Libya after intercepting them at sea.
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The coastguard had no details about the nationalities of the migrants, nor about the two deaths.
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Most migrants had been jailed after the Libyan coastguard intercepted their makeshift boats bound for Italy.
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Libya still lacks resources to fight smuggling alone, including a navy or coastguard fleet, Safar said.
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Three days after Italy's Diciotti coastguard vessel docked in Catania, 150 adult migrants remained on deck.
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Coastguard rescue boats are pictured alongside the marina near Whakatane, around 30 miles from White Island.
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All told, the Italian coastguard said it had helped save 237,1153 migrants today, in 2115 operations.
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Eleven migrants have already been taken off the ship by the Italian coastguard for health reasons.
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To seaward, the rigid inflatables of America's armed coastguard left a sense of security in their wake.
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It was too early to say if the deal would be effective, a senior coastguard official said.
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Ideally the Italian coastguard will pick up Joy's body before the boat lands, before decay sits in.
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A Libyan coastguard spokesman in Tripoli declined to comment, saying they were collecting information on what happened.
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It trained the Libyan coastguard and navy, and helped implement a UN arms embargo off the coast.
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It now relies on aeroplanes and the Libyan coastguard to do the job of disrupting smuggling networks.
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Qassem denied that the coastguard had fired at or over the migrants, or put them in danger.
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Eight Chinese crew members were detained but the Chinese coastguard prevented Indonesia from confiscating the fishing boat.
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Japanese and Chinese coastguard vessels frequently face off around the islands as both sides press their claims.
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ROME (Reuters) - The Libyan coastguard has seized an Italian fishing vessel, Italy's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
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They were apprehended by the Turkish coastguard and then detained in the western coastal city of Izmir.
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Returning fishermen said two or three Chinese coastguard ships circled the shoal but had not harassed them.
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Last summer smuggler networks were disrupted under heavy pressure from Italy, and Libya's coastguard stepped up interceptions.
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At least three of the containers were thought to contain hazardous chemicals, the Dutch coastguard has said.
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The coastguard coordinated rescues of migrants from 15 different boats on Thursday, bringing 1,13 people to safety.
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The EU is already training the Libyan coastguard in Italy and in international waters off North Africa.
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"We didn't want to wait for the Libyan coastguard because people were in danger," Steier told Reuters.
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On Wednesday, one body was picked up, the Italian coastguard said, while 580 were brought to safety.
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The migrants said the Greek coastguard had disconnected their boats' motors, leaving them adrift in the Aegean.
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He reported the practice to Britain's Maritime and Coastguard Agency and quit when the ship reached Southampton.
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A coastguard vessel, two navy ships and dive teams are currently trying to find the remaining passengers.
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Another 500 people were rescued from four different boats on Tuesday, the coastguard said in a statement.
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A spokesman for Libya's coastguard said a patrol boat had been dispatched, without providing any further information.
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Libya's EU-backed coastguard has also returned more migrants to that country after intercepting them at sea.
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Libya's coastguard has blocked more than 2,000 migrants trying to leave Libyan waters for Europe this week.
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Two drowned when their moored sailing boat sank in the seaside town of Antirio, coastguard officials said.
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Indonesia this week protested to China against what it called an infringement of its sovereignty by China's coastguard.
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Egypt's military said its coastguard had busted a people-trafficking operation and led a life-saving rescue operation.
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Italy allowed almost 140 rescued migrants off a coastguard ship after refusing them entry for nearly a week.
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Chinese coastguard ships took control of the area after a tense stand-off with Philippine vessels in 2012.
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Now, the most formidable vessel owned by Mariupol's coastguard is an old fishing boat confiscated from Turkish poachers.
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Footage of the incident shows navy officers throwing life belts to the three men from a coastguard vessel.
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One trick is not always to deploy the navy, but the coastguard and "maritime militias", when intimidating neighbours.
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"They were packed in there ... The boat could (only) safely accommodate a dozen people," a coastguard officer said.
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Back in 2012, China seized the Scarborough Shoal by deploying powerful coastguard cutters to evict the Philippine navy.
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Human-rights groups also worry that EU co-operation with the Libyan coastguard may be harmful to migrants.
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A statement from the Zuwara coastguard said their initial information suggested there were some 90 people on board.
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No shipping maps were found on the ship's logbook for the Djibouti and Oman areas, the coastguard said.
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Libyan coastguard boats have repeatedly clashed with NGO vessels on the edge of Libyan waters, sometimes opening fire.
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"Italian and European authorities should not be providing support to the Libyan coastguard," MSF representative Annemarie Loof said.
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Dominica has a police force called the Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force, which also acts as a coastguard.
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Abe said the coastguard had to protect Japan's waters and people and "ensure security and peace of mind".
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Human traffickers have increasingly moved their operations to Tunisia since a crackdown by the coastguard in neighbouring Libya.
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Salvini also replied to a coastguard official who had told Corriere della Sera newspaper the situation was "embarrassing".
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The coastguard launched a rescue operation after the teenagers raised the alarm with Kent Police at 21 p.m.
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One of the fishing boats with 11 sailors on board was captured by the Saudi coastguard on Dec.
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But the centers have continued to operate, receiving new arrivals from boats intercepted by Libya's EU-backed coastguard.
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The conditions were so harsh that the Ivernes Coastguard helicopter, Rescue 151, could not be used near the summit.
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Malta refused, saying it had nothing to do with the rescue mission, which was overseen by the Italian coastguard.
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Japan has also warming relations with Vietnam, promising to help strengthen its coastguard with training, vessels and other equipment.
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Initial reports suggested Iranians were also among the group, but the coastguard later confirmed this was not the case.
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China kept the blockade intact, which its coastguard enforced by chasing and firing water cannons at approaching Filipino vessels.
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As non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have boosted rescue operations in the Mediterranean they have repeatedly clashed with Libya's coastguard.
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Sabratha's coastguard has 5003 members but just one car and a broken inflatable that was previously used by smugglers.
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South Korean authorities were questioning the 14 surviving crew and coastguard members involved in the operation, the official added.
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South Korean coastguard vessels regularly chase Chinese boats for fishing illegally and violent confrontations have occurred in the past.
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Greece's Hellenic Coastguard, which also took part in the rescue efforts, reported that the boy's mother survived the crash.
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Last year, 6,726 migrants were rescued as they tried to enter Spain by sea, according to the Spanish coastguard.
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Italy's coastguard coordinates all rescues off the coast of Libya, which has been shattered by years of civil war.
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Taiwan's coastguard has had direct oversight of Itu Aba since 2000, when it took over from the Taiwanese military.
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The coastguard was seeking 15 to 20 others and was being assisted by two helicopters, planes and commercial boats.
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But their numbers have dropped after an Italian-led effort to disrupt smuggling networks and support the Libyan coastguard.
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In 2016, 6,726 migrants were rescued as they tried to enter Spain by sea, according to the Spanish coastguard.
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The Turkish military has previously confirmed that its forces, excluding coastguard and gendarmes, totaled 391,695 as of Sept. 8.
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In October, Guinea Bissau's coastguard discovered the empty wreckage of a boat that had been carrying dozens of migrants.
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Nine bodies were recovered in Greek territory and another seven in Turkish waters, Greek and Turkish coastguard officials said.
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"The dinghy was put to sea despite very bad weather at the time," said a coastguard spokesman in Italy.
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The Greek coastguard said it had no formal information the vessel was heading to Kalamata and was monitoring the matter.
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Libya's coastguard sends migrants back to detention centers that rights groups have criticized for their inhumane conditions and widespread abuses.
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"The greater capacity of the Libyan coastguard means smugglers are resorting to more dangerous routes to evade detection," he said.
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"The role of the coastguard is quite pivotal," said David Obura, coordinator for a coastal research organization, Cordio East Africa.
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Until the launch of the coastguard, Kenya's navy has been responsible for maritime security but experts said it was overstretched.
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Italy's coastguard said on Tuesday some 4,000 migrants had been rescued in the southern Mediterranean in the past two days.
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"We haven't yet seen the terms of the deal properly," said Antonis Sofiadelis, head of the coastguard operations on Lesbos.
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Oumoh was eventually saved at sea and brought to the southern Italian island of Lampedusa by the coastguard last November.
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Chinese coastguard ships have also been operating within the oil block since the standoff began, the Marine Traffic data showed.
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On Monday and Tuesday, Italy's coastguard said 5,600 migrants had been rescued, including by ships participating in the Sophia mission.
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The Libyan coastguard has also intercepted migrant boats, with 550 turned back to Libya on Tuesday and 850 on Sunday.
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"Eight bodies have been recovered and 26 have been rescued and taken to the island," a Greek coastguard official said.
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Libya's coastguard has already been pushing further into international waters, often firing warning shots or speeding close to charity boats.
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"Every time we send a survey ship there, Chinese coastguard vessels harass our survey ships," he told news channel ANC.
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Taiwan's coastguard said in a statement a Chinese fishing vessel trespassed into Taiwan waters, refused to stop and resisted inspection.
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"The only assistance we have been offered so far is promises," said Colonel Abdulssmad Massoud of the coastguard in Tripoli.
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China has said its vessels were operating in its fishing grounds and its coastguard vessel did not enter Indonesian waters.
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There was no immediate official word on how many people may be missing and Greek coastguard officials declined to speculate.
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The Italian coastguard would escort Lifeline "to an Italian port to conduct the probe" and impound the ship, he said.
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Rights groups have strongly criticized EU-backed efforts to curtail migrant crossings from Libya, including support for the local coastguard.
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Coastguard and drug enforcement officers seized three containers full of the amphetamines, the financial crimes unit (SDOE) said on Friday.
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"We had Indian coastguard boats surrounding us, there were helicopters, aeroplanes, the whole boat was filled with smoke," she said.
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The Italian government has focused on stopping migration to its shores from Libya and the Libyan coastguard has increased interceptions.
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China's coastguard also carries out regular patrols there, he told a daily news briefing, without directly mentioning the Natuna Islands.
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Emirati authorities have expanded coastguard patrols and are monitoring ships and their documentation more carefully, said two UAE-based sources.
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Malta refused to take the ship, saying it was Italy's responsibility as the rescue was overseen by the Italian coastguard.
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Only half a dozen African countries have their own coastguard, Andrew Mwangura, a Kenyan maritime expert, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Within two days, defense and coastguard officials said Chinese were still there, but had scaled back their presence since Duterte's visit.
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Departures from Libya have dropped since July due to changes in smuggling activity and increased activity by Libya's European-backed coastguard.
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The government also plans further dismissals in the foreign and interior ministries, as well as the coastguard and military, Kurtulmus said.
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The asylum-seekers are arriving in mostly inflatable boats each week, often without enough fuel for the crossing, straining Spain's coastguard.
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The government has provided equipment for and trained the Libyan coastguard, as well as deploying its own naval vessels in support.
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Migrants found dead or missing in Spanish waters have already surpassed the 153 reported for last year, Spanish coastguard figures show.
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Seventeen people on the boat were rescued from the sea and seventeen others were found on the shore, the coastguard said.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Mario Giro told Reuters on Monday that he considered the accusations "absurd" because Italy's Coastguard oversees all rescues.
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Thousands of Vietnamese coastguard, border guard, navy, air force and fishermen have been searching for the aircraft and the second pilot.
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The senior coastguard official, who declined to be named, said the Turks would be transferred to Athens in the coming days.
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Within two days, defence and coastguard officials said Chinese were still there, but had scaled back their presence since Duterte's visit.
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South Korean coastguard vessels regularly chase Chinese boats for fishing illegally off its coast, at times resulting in violent confrontations at sea.
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Mr Metzler, a retired coastguard rescue swimmer who looks a good deal younger than his 2100 years, frequently hunts in the area.
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Separately, Libya's coastguard picked up seven survivors over the weekend who said they had been on a boat packed with 170 migrants.
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On Tuesday, several NGOs said the Libyan coastguard had boarded a migrant boat, robbing the migrants and firing shots into the air.
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Earlier on Monday, Indonesia protested to China against what it described as an infringement of its waters by the Chinese coastguard vessel.
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The Tajoura detention center took in more migrants after the strike but is no longer accepting new arrivals, a coastguard official said.
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The plan sparked massive anti-Japanese protests across China, and Chinese Coastguard vessels and fishing boats began plying waters around the islands.
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Also being built is a sheltered port for bigger fishing vessels, coastguard boats and navy ships, said National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon.
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The operation to rescue migrants from unseaworthy boats on Monday was a joint venture involving the Italian coastguard, the EU, and NGOs.
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Rajan Bargotra, a senior coastguard official, said the absence of signals from an emergency locator transmitter (ELT ) made the operation very difficult.
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About 100 Chinese fishing boats were detected encroaching in Malaysia's waters, Malaysia's state news agency and a coastguard official said last week.
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It can also operate from open fields, deserts, ice or water, meaning it could be useful for humanitarian missions or coastguard monitoring.
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Separately, Greece rescued 127 migrants and refugees off Chios island on board two boats in distress earlier on Friday, the coastguard said.
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"From some scattered accounts we have heard (from those rescued) they set off from the African coastline," coastguard spokesman Nikos Lagkadianos said.
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A coastguard spokesman in Tripoli said no migrant boats had been intercepted over the past two days, with rougher seas preventing patrols.
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The migrant inflatable approaches into distant view, quartered by the fast-gaining Turkish coastguard who has spied her target and zeroes in.
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Italy's coastguard said 5,600 migrants were rescued on Monday and Tuesday, and officials fear numbers will increase as conditions continue to improve.
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"As far as I know the Libyan coastguard works to save lives and not to drown people," he told reporters in Rome.
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Kishida said Japan would maintain its support to the Philippines with the delivery next week of the first of 10 coastguard vessels.
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Lorenzana said security officials from both sides also discussed law enforcement cooperation, including anti-piracy and anti-narcotics exercises by coastguard and police.
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But the navy only has two vessels, said Obura of Cordio East Africa, while Kenyatta has unveiled one ship for the new coastguard.
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" The UK Coastguard said it's cordoned off the whale and is advising people to keep a safe distance from the "very distressing scene.
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Japan's coastguard said it had detected ballistic missile launches from North Korea and warned shipping to stay to stay clear of any debris.
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The EU has given him tens of millions of dollars to improve the coastguard and provide new jobs for those involved in trafficking.
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The plan was presented by the Italian coastguard at a conference hosted by the EU's anti-trafficking mission, Sophia, in Rome last month.
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After the new deal with Turkey was ratified, the Greek coastguard has been actively scooping up refugees and transporting them directly to Moria.
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Some 2,300 migrants were pulled from rubber and wooden boats in international waters between Libya and Italy on Thursday, the Italian coastguard said.
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Many are picked up and returned to shore by the coastguard, which Mr Minniti says conducted 22,000 search-and-rescue-operations last year.
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"Since three days ago there are no longer Chinese ships, Coastguard or navy, in the Scarborough area," Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana told reporters.
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Singapore police, who manage the island nation's coastguard, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore did not comment immediately on the incident.
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The migrants said they had set off from Antalya on Turkey's southwestern coast, some 260 nautical miles away, police and coastguard officials said.
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The exercises to be held around Itu Aba, known by Taiwan as Taiping, would include drills in rescuing shipwrecked personnel, the coastguard said.
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"The EU has to consider very carefully who to train in Libya and who is loyal at the Libyan coastguard," she told reporters.
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Italy's coastguard, meanwhile, said a total of around 800 migrants were rescued from rubber boats in six operations in the Mediterranean on Saturday.
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Earlier, Libya's coastguard picked up 443 African migrants on Thursday from three inflatable boats in trouble near its western coast, a spokesman said.
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Italian navy and coastguard picked up 41 percent of migrants rescued at sea last year, NGO ships 26 percent, and Sophia 25 percent.
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The crew of 10 - seven South Koreans and three Vietnamese - were released on Friday evening, a spokesman for South Korea's coastguard told Reuters.
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MALAGA (Reuters) - Almost 200 people were rescued attempting to make the dangerous crossing from North Africa to Spain on Monday, the coastguard said.
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A navy ship docked at Lesbos port will take in 508 migrants who have arrived since March 2, a Greek coastguard official said.
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Earlier this year, it sent a flotilla of fishing boats, also escorted by the coastguard, into the EEZs of Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam.
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Indonesia deployed warships and fighter jets to the area after a Chinese coastguard vessel was spotted escorting Chinese fishing boats around the islands.
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A video released by the coastguard showed the mother trying to carry her dead calf before finally abandoning the body after several days.
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"Our navy, coastguard and U.N. Command set up a military police to enter into an operation to expel Chinese fishing vessels," said the official.
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LONDON — The coastguard and marine rescuers are working to save another sperm whale that's washed up alive on the sands at Hunstanton in Norfolk.
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Some 27,000 migrants have arrived in Italy by boat this year, the Interior Ministry says, and the coastguard said 600 were rescued on Thursday.
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"We rescued on Sunday seven illegal migrants - six men and a woman," said Omar Koko, a coastguard commander in the western city of Zawiya.
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Human traffickers increasingly use Tunisia as a launch pad for migrants heading for Europe after Libya's coastguard aided by armed groups tightened its controls.
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Migration to Italy has plummeted since July, as it has begun training and supplying the Libyan coastguard—and, allegedly, local militias—to stop smugglers.
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"No, we will not accept any illegal migrants after they are rescued by rescue ships...," the spokesman of Libya's coastguard, Ayob Qassem, told Reuters.
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The Greek coastguard said on Saturday that the migrants who survived had told authorities their boat set sail from Egypt with about 350 people.
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The MT Riah was detained by the Iranian coastguard on July 13, with 12 Indian crew members on board, the Indian foreign ministry said.
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A senior coastguard official, who declined to be named because he was unauthorized to speak to the media, said a Chinese withdrawal appeared unlikely.
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Two tugboats and a Norwegian coastguard vessel were initially on their way to the scene, but were called off, a rescue service spokeswoman said.
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The Gregoretti coastguard vessel rescued the migrants on Thursday from two boats off Malta, but was awaiting orders on where it could take them.
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The European Union has deployed a naval mission in the Mediterranean and is training the Libyan coastguard to cut the numbers attempting the journey.
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The coastguard ended up saving the cutie's life a second time by finding a forever home for the kitten, who is now named Charlie.
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Looking to turn the screws on the traffickers, Italy's parliament authorized on Wednesday a limited naval mission to help Libya's coastguard curb migrant flows.
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Earlier in the day, for example, as we walked along the docks in Morocco, Patron pointed out all the coastguard speedboats in the water.
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Since then, its fishing vessels and coastguard and builders of massive artificial islands have acted as if might makes right, remorselessly ratcheting up tensions.
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Separately, the coastguard said it had brought back to shore more than 300 migrants from at least two other migrant boats east of Tripoli.
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Italy's coastguard coordinated the rescues off the Libya coast, including helicopter airlifts of three migrants in need of immediate hospital care, a spokeswoman said.
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The Greek coastguard said in a statement that the incident took place off Imia, known as Kardak in Turkish, at about midnight on Monday.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's coastguard rescued 34 men, 14 women and 18 minors from a rubber boat in the Aegean Sea on Friday, it said.
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The Turkish coastguard said it recovered another two bodies on its side of the maritime border, and that the boat was carrying 27 people.
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As of last week, nearly 5,400 migrants had been intercepted or rescued at sea by the Libyan coastguard so far this year, UNHCR reported.
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The coastguard said separately it had found the bodies of a girl and two women near Ayvacik, further north, after a boat part-capsized.
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The Syrians were loaded at sea onto a coastguard vessel and from there led to a harbor in the south-east of the island.
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Separately on Wednesday, two rescue vessels operated by MOAS and Save the Children rescued a total of 470 migrants, an Italian coastguard spokesman said.
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Separately, Libya's coastguard said it had stopped six boats carrying more than 750 migrants off the country's western coast, and had recovered four bodies.
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" Tsipras told coastguard officers: "Challenges and aggressive rhetoric against the sovereign rights of an EU member state are against the EU in its entirety.
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In the latest developments, around 1,000 refugees were rescued in the central Mediterranean off Sicily by the Italy coastguard, including two fishing boats from Egypt.
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The coastguard said about 5,13.53 passengers were stranded at several ports by the impending storm, which will head on towards Hong Kong, China and Vietnam.
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The third boat arrived from the Greek island of Chios, where a coastguard official told Reuters 66 people, most of them Afghans, had been aboard.
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The third boat arrived from the Greek island of Chios, where a coastguard official told Reuters 23 people, most of them Afghans, had been aboard.
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"A trained Libyan coastguard, already in that zone, could prevent many deaths," Rear Admiral Enrico Credendino, commander of the Sophia operation, told reporters in Rome.
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Philippine authorities are trying to locate the fishermen, believed to have returned to land, who have been encouraged to report to police or coastguard officials.
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The search for a missing third person was suspended until Tuesday morning when he was eventually found with help from members of the U.S. Coastguard.
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The relationship with Japan is far less complicated and Tokyo has agreed to provide 10 coastguard vessels to Manila to support its maritime security efforts.
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The Libyan coastguard, which receives EU funding and training, has become more assertive in recent months in intercepting migrants and bringing them back to Libya.
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President Ma met with coastguard personnel and said that several islands in the disputed waters belonged to the Republic of China (ROC) -- Taiwan's official name.
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MILAN (Reuters) - About 1,100 migrants were rescued from boats in the Strait of Sicily on Sunday as they tried to reach Europe, Italy's coastguard said.
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Police reported two deaths, in Camarines and Quezon provinces, while the coastguard was investigating reports that a small ferry had been swamped by giant waves.
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The island supports around 180 people, about 150 of them coastguard personnel who have had oversight of the 46-hectare (114-acre) island since 2000.
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Filipino fishermen who went close to the shoal said China's coastguard was no longer repelling them, as it had done over the past four years.
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ROME (Reuters) - Some 1,400 migrants were plucked from overcrowded boats off the coast of Libya on Tuesday, Italy's coastguard said, and two bodies were recovered.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek authorities have seized a Tanzanian-flagged ship heading for Libya and carrying materials used to make explosives, the coastguard said on Wednesday.
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A Chinese coastguard vessel had rammed free a Chinese fishing boat as it was towed into port after being caught allegedly fishing in Indonesian waters.
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ROME (Reuters) - Two more aid groups have suspended migrant rescues in the Mediterranean, joining Doctors Without Borders, because they felt threatened by the Libyan coastguard.
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Early on Tuesday, authorities ordered the detention of 19993 people in Turkey's coastguard and navy over their alleged links to Fethullah Gulen's network, Anadolu said.
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Right after being notified of he accident by the container vessel, the Japanese coastguard made contact with the U.S. ship and confirmed it, Aikawa said.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - More than 100 migrants are feared to have drowned off Libya's western coast after their overloaded boat capsized, coastguard officials said on Friday.
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Italian Navy ship Vega plucked about 2475 people off a "half-submerged" large rubber boat - one of 17 operations coordinated by the coastguard on Friday.
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ROME (Reuters) - Some 3,000 migrants were saved off the Libyan coast on Tuesday in 23 separate rescue missions, the Italian coastguard said in a statement.
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Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said that a Chinese coastguard vessel had infringed Indonesia's sovereign rights and he had discussed the matter with Chinese embassy representatives.
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Later on Friday, a Libyan coastguard official said that around 100 people are thought to have drowned from a migrant boat off Libya's western coast.
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The coastguard did not provide details on the cause of the accident, which was among the deadliest of its kind in Greek waters this year.
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The so-called "ghost boats" often avoid detection by coastguard patrols, allowing their passengers to vanish as soon as they reach land, escaping police registration.
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It added that although the Libyan coastguard had announced it would take charge of the rescue, it had been in no position to do so.
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To meet the Arctic threat, Mr Trudeau announced in May that the coastguard would get two new ships to join the navy in patrolling the region.
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The Kent Coastguard coordinated the search and rescue operation to find the men, who were then located one mile off the coast, Kent Police told Mashable.
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SOS Mediterranee, the charity co-operating the migrant ship, said it was awaiting instructions about where to disembark from Italy's coastguard, which coordinated the sea rescues.
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The EU is training about 90 members of the Libyan coastguard, and Italy will soon return ten of the Libyans' boats that were seized in 2011.
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The Libyan coastguard also increased the rate of its interceptions, turning back about 20,000 this year, though it still only stops a portion of the boats.
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The Italian authorities claim that the crew enabled illegal immigration by refusing to cooperate with the Libyan coastguard to hand over a group of 101 migrants.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Seven crew members are missing after a Turkish cargo vessel sank off the Libyan coast on Thursday in bad weather, a coastguard official said.
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Nearly 6,350 have been intercepted and turned back by the Libyan coastguard in 2017, and over 1,440 have died trying to cross, according to the IOM.
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The UN special envoy to Libya endorsed Italy's naval mission to support the Libyan coastguard in trying to curb the flow of migrants in the Mediterranean.
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On Thursday, the boats had gone, replaced by a coastguard ship lingering on the horizon and small navy boats policing a 3-kilometre no-go zone.
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"We called the Italian coastguard and sent our coordinates, asking for assistance as people started to fall in the water," a survivor told the aid agency.
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Those that survived were among 276 migrants rescued from several boats that day before being transferred to the port city of Khoms by the Libyan coastguard.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Seven Afghan migrants, including three children, died after their boat sank late on Monday off Turkey's northwest province of Canakkale, the Turkish coastguard said.
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But the centers have continued to operate, repeatedly caught in the crossfire of fighting whilst receiving new arrivals from boats intercepted by Libya's EU-backed coastguard.
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Cornwall Council said Monday that it was aware of the bottles and was monitoring the situation together with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, and Natural England.
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Libya's EU-backed coastguard has also stepped up interceptions, returning migrants to detention centers notorious for poor conditions and drawing sharp criticism from human rights groups.
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"There were four Chinese coastguard ships and six other vessels, including blue-coloured barges, around Scarborough Shoal," he said in a text message sent to reporters.
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The Coastguard said the remaining 12 people on the Saga Sky helped to move the vessel to safety after the collision off the coast of Dover.
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In some places the build-up of Chinese naval and coastguard vessels has made it less likely that clam-harvesters will be chased off by foreigners.
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"We would be glad if they have their presence there ... just to patrol," Duterte said, adding that China could send coastguard vessels, not necessarily "gray" warships.
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"We weren't not going to come," he said, as a coastguard vessel patrolled the cobalt blue waters of the Baie des Anges in front of him.
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The coastguard has beefed up patrols in response to the boats - including one labeled military property - just off the coast, or even grounded on Japanese beaches.
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Some pirogues looking for fish in northern Senegal had waded into Mauritanian waters in recent months causing tensions between fishermen and the local coastguard, he said.
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On Wednesday, however, Italy's coastguard said it had rescued 42 migrants from a sailboat off the coast of Puglia, in the southeastern heel of mainland Italy.
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Coastguard vessels from both countries routinely shadow each other near the uninhabited islets, stoking concern that an accidental collision or other complications could trigger a clash.
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The wooden-hulled fishing boat came close to shoal when China's coastguard blocked them and ordered them to go back to the Philippines, the group said.
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The Japanese coastguard originally reported the collision time to be at 2:20 am, however changed the time to 2:30 am after interviewing Filipino crewmembers.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants were rescued from a sinking ship off the island of Crete in the southern Mediterranean on Friday, the Greek coastguard said.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two children died after a boat carrying migrants sank just 50 meters off Turkey's western coast near Bodrum early on Monday, the coastguard said.
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"The Libyan coastguard is the basis on which we have to build security in the coastal waters of Libya," British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told reporters.
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The government said that as well as funding the trials it would provide expertise and technical backing via the Maritime and Coastguard Agency for two projects.
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For more than half an hour, three coastguard sailors in their inflatable approach with what looks like an oar and another rod perhaps ten feet long.
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Captain Waseem Maqsood, coastguard commander in the Chittagong division, told CNN that 71 people were rescued alive, while more than 40 people are still unaccounted for.
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The Irish Coastguard, Cork County Council, and other parties are now deciding how to proceed with the vessel, and citizens are being asked to stay away.
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Coffins were lined up on the quay of the small port of Lampedusa as a coastguard ship entered harbor on Monday, bringing the bodies to shore.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Seven Turkish nationals, two women and five children, drowned when a boat carrying them capsized near Greece's Chios island on Friday, the coastguard said.
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On Thursday, it intercepted four boats early in the morning carrying about 550 people near the western port of Sabratha, Tripoli coastguard spokesman Ayoub Qassem said.
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Rescuers pulled some 650 migrants to safety and recovered five dead bodies from boats in difficulty off the coast of Libya on Wednesday, Italy's coastguard said.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - A child died and 47 migrants were rescued after their boat capsized off the Greek island of Lesbos, the Greek coastguard said on Monday.
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A spokesperson for Britain's Maritime & Coastguard Agency said: "We regret that CMA CGM has chosen to reflag its vessels due to its obligations under EU regulation".
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ON DECEMBER 503TH 1975 an Icelandic coastguard vessel came across a group of British ships sheltering from a storm in a fjord and ordered them to leave.
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China's embassy in Manila said there has been no dredging or building at the shoal and China has maintained a coastguard presence there for law enforcement patrols.
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An Italian coastguard statement said 515 people had been plucked from one boat and a further 43 people rescued in another operation involving a Finnish naval vessel.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's coastguard said it had detected ballistic missile launches from North Korea on Saturday and warned shipping to stay to stay clear of any debris.
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Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary, British Divers Marine Life Rescue, Hunstanton Coastguard Rescue Team and the local council are working together to try and keep the whale alive.
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Coastguard ships recovered some 800 migrants from nine different vessels on Sunday, the coastal service said, and coordinated the rescue of another 230 boat migrants on Monday.
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"For the Norwegian coastguard this is a big relief - they can arrest any ships fishing illegally in the Svalbard area," chief public prosecutor Lars Fause told Reuters.
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LIKE the dog that didn't bark in the night, Chinese coastguard vessels around one tidal atoll in the South China Sea have recently distinguished themselves through inaction.
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Ayoub Qassem, a Libyan coastguard spokesman, said he did not have details of the plan, but both sides recognized the need to cooperate in tackling irregular migration.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled 2,400 boat migrants to safety on Saturday, the Italian coastguard said, adding 14 dead bodies had been recovered in the past two days.
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"As we speak, the Chinese vessel is linking up with our own ship to turn over the two Filipino fishermen," said Philippine coastguard spokesman Commander Armand Balilo.
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Japan, a major investor across Southeast Asia, has been providing coastguard training and ships also to Vietnam, another country at odds with China over its maritime assertiveness.
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It includes stepping up training of Libya's coastguard and financing for the U.N. agencies for refugees (UNHCR) and migration (IOM) to improve dire conditions for migrants there.
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"Last year the coastguard fired 13 shots on our boat and that was in a situation that was much calmer than the present one," said De Filippi.
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The three men were believed to have suffocated, a coastguard official in the South Korean port city of Mokpo said, adding that the incident was being investigated.
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That came after South Korean fishermen, frustrated with incursions by Chinese boats in defiance of coastguard warnings, impounded two Chinese trawlers and handed them over to authorities.
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Italy has spearheaded the plan, in particular by training and equipping the coastguard and by spending millions to back U.N. agencies working on relief efforts in Libya.
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Since 2012, China has deployed its coastguard to block the shoal from Filipinos, despite being located inside the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.
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In recent weeks, fleets of Chinese fishing boats have crowded into the waters around the uninhabited islands, backed by Chinese fisheries-protection vessels, part of the coastguard.
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An additional group of those rescued by an Italian coastguard boat last week would be received in Italy with the support of the Catholic Church, it added.
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China's Xinhua news agency said coastguard officials of both countries had met on Tuesday to discuss exchanging visits, building trust and cooperating to prevent cross-border crimes.
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They hope a U.N.-sponsored government that arrived in Tripoli in March will bring stability, and the EU last week agreed to help to train Libya's coastguard.
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"Most of the fuel smuggling boats are carrying in migrant smuggling materials in front of the eyes of the Europeans," said Colonel Ayoub Qassem, a coastguard spokesman.
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There has also been a decline in the number of rescues by ships participating in the EU's anti-smuggling mission, Sophia, this year, Italian coastguard data show.
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The candidates also included a coastguard officer, Gregorio De Falco, who became a national hero in 2012 when the Costa Concordia cruise ship capsized, killing 32 people.
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Concerns have been voiced about the crackdown's impact on state institutions, and the coastguard command on Thursday carried on its website a notice seeking 760 new soldiers.
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"We will assume the humanitarian generosity and responsibility to save these people and take them onto Italian coastguard ships," Toninelli said in a video posted on Facebook.
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The migrants, including people from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and various African countries, held up small children to be rescued first by the crew of the coastguard vessel.
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Coastguard agency Frontex reported that last year, just over 23,000 irregular crossings were detected from Libya, Algeria or Tunisia to Italy, an 80% decrease compared to 2017.
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Filipino fishermen say that since Duterte returned from his high-profile visit to repair ties with China last month, the Chinese coastguard has largely left them alone.
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On Thursday, the boats were moved elsewhere, replaced by a coastguard ship lingering on the horizon and small navy boats policing a 3-kilometre no-go zone.
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The Golfo Azzurro, operated by Spanish humanitarian organization Proactiva Open Arms, was repeatedly contacted by a Libyan coastguard vessel, according to radio transmissions heard by the photographer.
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Italian coastguard and naval ships, a vessel from the European Union's anti-smuggling mission and private aid groups rescued the people from seven boats in the central Mediterranean.
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Morocco became the main launchpad for Europe-bound migrants in July after Italy took a tougher line and EU aid to the Libyan coastguard stemmed flows from Libya.
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An Indonesian naval ship that passed there on Saturday reported that three coastguard vessels and two Vietnamese fishing boats were nearby and there was no sign of trouble.
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Over the years Tanmen's fishermen have become part of China's power projection in the South China Sea, an unofficial but vital adjunct to the Chinese navy and coastguard.
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The Dutch coastguard said a criminal investigation had been launched by prosecutors into the incident, one of the largest of its kind off the coast of the Netherlands.
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Philippine coastguard chief Rear Admiral William Melad said the 44-metre (144-foot) vessel from Japan would be sent out to sea on patrols and law enforcement operations.
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One boat carrying about 100 migrants was intercepted off the western city of Sabratha, about 70 km west of the capital, Tripoli, naval coastguard spokesman Ayoub Qassem said.
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Given the difficulties of transporting the migrants aboard the Aquarius to Valencia, almost a thousand miles away, some are to be transported aboard Italian naval and coastguard vessels.
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The Golfo Azzurro ship operated by Spanish humanitarian organisation Proactiva Open Arms was repeatedly contacted by a Libyan coastguard vessel, according to radio transmissions heard by the photographer.
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Camps, citing Josepha's account, said the Libyan coastguard had abandoned the three migrants amid the shattered remains of the raft because they refused to board their patrol ship.
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The ship, which listed at five degrees, did not have any cargo on board and there were no reports of any pollution, the coastguard said in a statement.
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She added that, from her agency's window, she often saw the coastguard unloading body bags filled with corpses of migrants and refugees who had died crossing the Aegean.
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The number of crossings has fallen off sharply since Italy provided the coastguard with more boats and brokered deals with local groups in a smuggler hub last year.
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He described a steady leak of water that began around the time of the shooting, but quickly got worse as the boat rolled in the coastguard vessel's wake.
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Military officials and fishermen in northwest province of Pangasinan said Chinese coastguard vessels remained in place at Scarborough and were still preventing fishermen from entering the shoal's lagoon.
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Reuters TV footage on Thursday showed a group of around 70 people including children, some wet and shaking, rounded up near the harbor by the coastguard at Ayvacik.
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The coastguard and a patrol boat from Japan's Fisheries Agency have begun a search, the spokesman said, adding that it was not known why the boat had sunk.
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IN OCTOBER 2013 the Seaman Guard Ohio, a Sierra Leone-flagged ship, was intercepted just under 11 nautical miles off the coast of India by the local coastguard.
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But the local Sabratha coastguard said it was not benefiting from EU support being channeled through Tripoli, where naval and interior ministry units have received nine patrol boats.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Five migrants drowned and 193 were rescued in the western Mediterranean sea off the Spanish coast, the Spanish coastguard said on Thursday, after six rafts sank.
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The migrants were picked up from eight rubber dinghies, one large boat and two punts through 11 rescue operations in the Mediterranean, the coastguard said in a statement.
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Libya's coastguard, which has received boats, equipment and training from Italy and the European Union, has become more active, intercepting more migrants and bringing them back to Libya.
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Lifeline has repeatedly said that allowing the Libyan coastguard to take the migrants back would have broken international law because the North African country is unsafe for them.
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Murray was the official who had to come up with a safety plan immediately after Simpson's death that would convince the coastguard to allow the competition to continue.
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ROME (Reuters) - Rescuers saved around 2,300 migrants from rubber and wooden boats in the central Mediterranean on Thursday, but also recovered two dead bodies, the Italian coastguard said.
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Mark Hughes, a winchman for the coastguard who is known as "Spike", was lowered from the helicopter to save him when he was caught blindsided by a wave.
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Reuters journalists were escorted there by a fishing boat and a coastguard vessel carrying seven officers equipped with Chinese-made machine guns to stave off potential pirate attacks.
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With the Libyan coastguard cracking down on sea crossings, smugglers are holding desperate migrants for ransom and selling them off as farm hands in underground markets, CNN found.
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The head of the local coastguard, Dimitris Saitakis, told reporters at least 13 suspected smugglers had been arrested, as well as 131 migrants hiding in caves or warehouses.
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Merchant ships sailing in the area assisted in the operation, with about 242 people rescued taken to Italy and others to Egypt, Turkey and Malta, the coastguard said.
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But two reports from the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) published in 2017 and 2018 suggest the wreck is deteriorating, leaving the future of dangerous cargo uncertain.
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Chinese coastguard and People's Liberation Army navy ships patrol vast swathes of the South China Sea, routinely shadowing U.S. and other international naval deployments, regional naval officers say.
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The dangers of the route were reinforced Friday, as Libya's coastguard said some 100 people were missing, feared dead, after a migrant boat capsized off the country's coast.
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The most recent one was on whether to vote in parliament to defend League leader Matteo Salvini from prosecution for preventing migrants disembarking from an Italian coastguard ship.
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"They (the Greek coastguard) pulled us toward the Turkish part of the sea and left us there," said Ahmed, from the Deir al-Zor region of northeast Syria.
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Reuters TV footage on Thursday showed a group of around 70 people including children, some wet and shaking, rounded up near the harbour by the coastguard at Ayvacik.
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Departures have dropped sharply since July as more migrants have been blocked from leaving or intercepted by the Libyan coastguard, meaning that numbers in detention centers have swelled.
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On Thursday, 10 women died in a sinking rubber boat off the coast of Libya and an Italian ship rescued hundreds of other migrants, the Italian coastguard said.
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Boat arrivals in Italy have risen sharply this week with warm weather and calm seas, and about 5073 rescue operations are currently under way, a coastguard spokesman said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's coastguard on Thursday said that North Korea had launched what appeared to be a missile, adding that it was monitoring where the projectile would land.
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Spain's coastguard said it had stopped posting regular information about rescues of migrants at sea on social media, though it continued to give information to journalists who call.
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An Italian navy ship, a vessel run by private rescue group MOAS and the Irish military ship James Joyce went to the rescue of six boats, the coastguard said.
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As dozens of relatives waited for news of their loved ones near the coastguard post on Wednesday night, a Reuters witness saw a fishing boat carrying 12 bodies arrive.
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When Open Arms called the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center in Rome to offer help, officials said the Libyan coastguard had the situation covered and that no assistance was needed.
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The Greek coastguard service said in September that it had investigated the Yaz for possible breaches of EU regulations regarding Syria and had pressed charges against the ship's captain.
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Reports of incidents in which vessels apparently belonging to the Libyan coastguard have attacked migrant or rescue boats makes the training all the more urgent and necessary, he said.
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Credendino said it was sometimes hard to tell whether such people were actually coastguard officials as some smugglers wear camouflage or uniforms and fly Libya's flag on their boats.
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Last week the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the EU's support for the Libyan coastguard as "inhuman" because intercepted migrants were imprisoned and subjected to "unimaginable horrors".
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MILAN (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled 2,121 migrants to safety from boats in the Mediterranean late on Friday and early on Saturday and recovered one dead body, the Italian coastguard said.
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Non-governmental organizations now carry out around a third of all operations in the search-and-rescue zone north of Libya, according to Italy's coastguard, which coordinates the rescues.
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TOKYO, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Japan's coastguard said it had detected ballistic missile launches from North Korea on Saturday and warned shipping to stay to stay clear of any debris.
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Arrivals have fallen sharply since officials working for the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli persuaded smugglers to stop boats leaving and the Libyan coastguard stepped up interceptions at sea.
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Japan and the Philippines are in talks about two more large coastguard ships worth about 10 billion pesos ($215 million) and the lease of four TC-90 surveillance aircraft.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted more than 500 migrants on four inflatable boats on Monday off the country's western coast and returned them to Libya, a spokesman said.
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The EU and Italy are also supporting Libya's coastguard to intercept more migrants, a policy criticized by activists who say they are being returned to inhumane conditions in Libya.
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Still, 280 of those 17,000 tons are pure diesel—and that fact has Scotland's coastguard warning people to steer clear of Dalmore beach until the rig can be cleared.
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The other migrants on the boat were rescued by an Italian coastguard vessel, along with the accused smugglers, who were taken into custody when the rescue ship reached Palermo.
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The Bosphorus strait, which runs through Istanbul, and the Dardanelles strait further south were closed to transit shipping due to poor visibility on Saturday morning, Turkey's coastguard authority said.
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ROME (Reuters) - Rescuers saved around 300 migrants from rubber and wooden boats in the Mediterranean on Wednesday but recovered six dead bodies during the operations, the Italian coastguard said.
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Footage from ABS-CBN news showed a handful of black-clad Chinese coastguard on a dinghy approaching the Filipino boat and using a megaphone to tell them to leave.
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Last August, he prevented another national coastguard boat carrying 150 migrants from docking for five days until Albania, Ireland and Italy's Catholic Church agreed to take responsibility for them.
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They were plucked from the water by the Greek coastguard, while more activists stood at the gates of the port of Mytilene blowing whistles and banging on metal barriers.
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" "Regarding me carrying out human smuggling, this is not true ... I am a legitimate officer in the navy and the only coastguard unit that has been working since 2014.
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Video showed the "Iuventa", which is run by Jugend Rettet, arriving at the island of Lampedusa surrounded by several coastguard vessels after it was stopped at sea before dawn.
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Video showed the Iuventa, which is run by Jugend Rettet, arriving at the island of Lampedusa surrounded by several coastguard vessels after it was stopped at sea before dawn.
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In March, Indonesia attempted to detain a Chinese trawler it accused of fishing in its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, prompting the Chinese coastguard to intervene.
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Separately, Italy's coastguard said rescuers pulled about 766 people to safety from boats in difficulty in the central Mediterranean on Thursday, and found the dead body of one woman.
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However, with the much longer journey, there is more chance of boats being blown off course to islands such as Crete, a Greek coastguard official on the island said.
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Those on board included 229 people that the Aquarius itself had rescued and 400 people that had been rescued earlier by the Italian navy, Italian coastguard and merchant vessels.
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Shahidan did not specify what type of Chinese vessels had been spotted but a Maritime Enforcement Agency official said they were fishing boats guarded by two Chinese coastguard vessels.
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This week, Indonesia protested to China about an incident involving an Indonesian patrol boat, and a Chinese coastguard vessel and fishing boat in what Indonesia said was its waters.
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ROME (Reuters) - More than 3,000 boat migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean over the past two days and two bodies have been recovered, Italy's coastguard said on Thursday.
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While UK voters spent the weekend celebrating or reeling from the result of the referendum, the Italian navy and coastguard rescued some 3,300 migrants off the coast of Libya.
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The Sea-Eye charity's founder Michael Buschheuer said the Italian coastguard had asked his ship to set course for the activists' C-Star vessel because it was in distress.
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On Thursday, the coastguard said the migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa were found in three rafts in the Alboran Sea, between northeastern Morocco and southeastern Spain on Wednesday afternoon.
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Greek riot police have used tear gas against the migrants at its Kastanies border post, while the coastguard has tried to stop boats transporting migrants to Greece's Aegean islands.
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It was unclear how many people remained unaccounted for as coastguard vessels combed beaches to find any remaining survivors, with military hospitals on full alert, the government's spokesman said.
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Maltese authorities are investigating Lifeline's crew for not following instructions from Italian authorities to leave the migrants, at sea in flimsy boats, to be intercepted by the Libyan coastguard.
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NGOs started operating boats to help migrants in May of last year, completing 26 percent of all rescues, while Italy's Coastguard and Navy together tallied more than 40 percent.
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The rescue team's going in as the Turkish coastguard, accepting defeat at the hands of the dinghy driver who will not give up, fades back east to the shore.
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Last week, Indonesia attempted to detain a Chinese trawler it accused of fishing in its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, prompting the Chinese coastguard to intervene.
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From Friday until Sunday, Italy's coastguard coordinated more than 6,13 sea rescues, bringing arrivals so far this year to almost 155,000, which was the total for all of 2015.
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"HM Coastguard has been coordinating a search and rescue response to a number of incidents off Kent working with the Border Force," Sky cited the emergency service as saying.
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More than two thirds of these have been picked up at sea relatively close to land by the Italian navy and coastguard, or else have come to shore directly.
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The group were directed to a coastguard bus that would drive them to the Moria "hot spot", a center where new arrivals are being registered and their asylum applications processed.
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The Turkish coastguard said earlier that 12 bodies were found on Turkey's west coast on Tuesday and 26 people were rescued after a boat carrying migrants bound for Greece capsized.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police arrested six people on Saturday in an operation to break up a gang which counterfeited documents for asylum seekers on a Greek island, the coastguard said.
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Day 2: Sunday October 2nd At 6am Dignity 9.163 gets a call from the Italian coastguard warning that a boat is in distress, with an estimated 200 people on board.
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"We need to stop the smuggling routes and to work more closely with NATO to make sure that we can help the Libyan coastguard," said British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon.
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Search and rescue teams—made up of Egyptian navy, air force and coastguard, as well as teams from Greece—have been deployed to the area where radar contact was lost.
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Meeting his counterpart in Libya's internationally-recognized government Abdulsalam Ashour and Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeg, Salvini thanked the Libyan coastguard for its "excellent work" in rescuing and intercepting migrants.
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In May 2014, state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) moved its Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig into Vietnam's Exclusive Economic Zone, guarded with a flotilla of coastguard ships.
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It has also set up a military hospital near the western city of Misrata and leads the European Union's Mediterranean migrant mission which began training the Libyan coastguard last October.
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A coastguard official on the Greek island of Chios told Reuters that 66 people, most of them Afghans, were also sent to Turkey on a third boat early on Monday.
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ROME (Reuters) - Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Friday he would not let an Italian coastguard boat carrying 135 migrants dock until European Union countries agreed to take them in.
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In 2010 a Chinese trawler rammed Japanese coastguard vessels in waters near islands called the Senkakus in Japanese and the Diaoyu in Chinese (their ownership is disputed by both countries).
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Itu Aba was now the fourth largest island in the Spratlys after China's land reclamation work on Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef and Subi Reef, Taiwan's coastguard said in October.
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The declines came after a deal with the Tripoli government sealed in February, which foresaw aid and training for the Libyans to fight people smuggling and to bolster their coastguard.
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Hamad port spans 26 square kilometers and will have a capacity of 7.5 million containers a year with terminals built to receive livestock, cereals, vehicles and coastguard vessels, Sulaiti said.
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A group of 42 people, more than a dozen of them children, sat inside a coastguard compound, some lying under blankets, in the seaside resort of Didim after being detained.
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Even with the full co-operation of the Turkish gendarmerie and coastguard, migrants would have little reason to try their luck in Greece, for they could not easily go farther.
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Some make it to international waters where they hope to be picked up by international vessels, but increasing numbers are intercepted by Libya's EU-backed coastguard and returned to Libya.
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After one clash in March, when a Chinese coastguard vessel freed a Chinese trawler from the Indonesian patrol boat that had caught it, Jokowi summoned China's ambassador for a scolding.
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The Chinese fishermen ignored radio warnings, the statement said, adding that Taiwan coastguard fired rubber bullets, hitting some of the fishermen in the legs, but did not cause major injuries.
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Despite efforts by Italy and the European Union to train and equip the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli and its coastguard to fight traffickers, migrants are arriving in record numbers.
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Hundreds of people, mostly men from sub-Saharan Africa, huddled under gray blankets on the deck of the Italian coastguard vessel Diciotti as they started to disembark in pouring rain.
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But a recent clampdown by the Libyan coastguard means fewer boats are making it out to sea, leaving the smugglers with a backlog of would-be passengers on their hands.
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The agreement vowed to crack down aggressively on those involved in trafficking operations in Libya and elsewhere, while increasing support for the Libyan coastguard and boosting funds for affected communities.
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Transport Minister Keiichi Ishii, whose portfolio includes the coastguard, told reporters the situation over the disputed islets was "heading for a higher degree of urgency" because of increasing Chinese incursions.
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Britain's HMS Enterprise and Germany's FGS Frankfurt, patrolling the area as part of the European Union's anti-people-smuggling operation, together rescued migrants from seven boats, a coastguard spokesman said.
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Vietnam has emerged as the most vocal opponent of China's extensive territorial claims to the sea and has been buying U.S. military hardware, such as a Hamilton-class coastguard cutter.
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MADRID (Reuters) - More than 200 migrants were rescued on Wednesday by the Spanish coastguard as they attempted to make the crossing from Africa to Spain, rescue services said on Thursday.
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Following last year's tensions, US secretary of defence Mark Esper visited Vietnam in November to announce the US would gift Vietnam a coastguard cutter to boost patrols in the region.
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Recently, several detention centers have been closed following international pressure, and migrants intercepted at sea by Libya's EU-backed coastguard have been freed rather than being taken to detention centers.
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Local fishermen saw a Chinese coastguard vessel escorting fishing boats several times in recent days and then reported what they had seen to the Maritime Security Agency, media reports said.
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"Maltese authorities, after the rescue, told the (Golfo Azzurro) to go to Lampedusa, a decision taken without the necessary approval of Italian maritime authorities," Italy's coastguard said in a statement.
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Since 2012, China had used its coastguard to block the waters around the shoal from Filipinos, but Chinese vessels reportedly left the region after Duterte's visit, allowing fishermen to return.
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In July Salvini, then interior minister, ordered the migrants, including children, remain on board the Italian coastguard ship Gregoretti until other European countries agreed to take most of them in.
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ROME (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled some 650 migrants to safety and recovered five dead bodies from boats in difficulty off the coast of Libya on Wednesday, Italy's coastguard said in a statement.
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If that is followed by a "freedom-of-navigation operation", that is, a navy or coastguard trip that Canada does not authorise, a new crisis in relations with America could erupt.
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A coastguard spokesman said most of those taken to safety in the first operation were Syrian, while he was unable to give the nationalities of those saved from the second boat.
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An Italian coastguard official said on Sunday more than 1,800 migrants attempting to cross from Libya to Italy were rescued over the past three days, following an improvement in the weather.
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Shortly afterwards the Italian coastguard picks up Joy's sister, Lovett, along with the young boy who had been badly burnt and his mother, in order to give them more medical attention.
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The six new coastguard patrol boats had a total value of 38.5 billion yen ($338 million) and Vietnam would get a concessional loan to pay for them, a Japanese official said.
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Minutes after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle debuted Baby Sussex for the world to see, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived at the Caernarfon Coastguard Search and Rescue Helicopter Base.
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The EU's border control agency, Frontex, has pointed to changeable weather, increased activity by the Libyan coastguard and violence in Libyan city of Sabratha, lately the main centre for migrant smuggling.
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China's coastguard was preventing Filipino boats from fishing around Scarborough Shoal, fishermen and officials said on Friday, and China's air force has released pictures showing bombers recently flying over the area.
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The country lacked a coastguard or functioning state machinery, which allowed heavily armed pirates to sail up to huge cargo vessels in speedboats before boarding and taking crew and ship hostage.
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He said stepped up efforts by Turkish police and security forces and the coastguard to clamp down on illegal migration had curbed the flow of migrants to countries in Western Europe.
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According to survivors' testimonies, dozens were on board a wooden sailboat which went down off Kalolimnos, a small island in the Aegean Sea close to Turkey's coast, one coastguard official said.
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Through Saturday, 395 people were rescued from nine boats in the Strait of Gibraltar and the Alboran Sea, the two principal sea crossings to Spain, the Spanish coastguard said on Twitter.
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Vessels belonging to the Italian coastguard and finance police, the European Union anti-smuggling operation, Sophia, and ships run by humanitarian groups took part in 11 rescue operations, a statement said.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least two migrants died and around 25 others were missing after their inflatable boat capsized off the western Libyan coast, a spokesman for the coastguard said on Sunday.
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Since the standoff began, Chinese coastguard ships have also been operating within a Vietnamese oil block where a rig leased by Russian oil giant Rosneft has been drilling, the data showed.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Saturday demanded that Taiwan release two mainland fishermen who have been detained after the island's coastguard fired rubber bullets at them amid simmering tensions between the rivals.
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A total of 34 dead bodies were found in the water, and around 1,13 people rescued from four rubber dinghies and six wooden boats, the coastguard said later in a statement.
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The coastguard said the warmer weather and calmer seas had led to a surge in the number of people trying to cross from Libya, where people smugglers operate with relative impunity.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italian coastguard and navy ships rescued over 3,300 migrants in 26 separate operations in the Mediterranean over the weekend, a spokesperson for the Italian navy told Reuters on Sunday.
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But transport minister Danilo Toninelli, who oversees the coastguard, later said it was unsafe for the 13-metre vessel to travel such a great distance with so many people on board.
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No team from the United Nations came to inspect the ship but local authorities did not find any contraband on board except some broken aids to navigation equipment, the coastguard said.
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However, 30 of the group brought back to Khoms returned to the port shortly after leaving because they heard shooting near a local market and were afraid, the coastguard official said.
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China's navy tested dozens of types of missiles on Monday, and plan to practice defensive and offensive maneuvers with surface ships, submarines, air support and coastguard forces, according to state media.
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Malaysia regularly tracked Chinese naval and coastguard vessels entering Malaysia's territorial waters, Mohamad said, but added that China respects Malaysia and had "not done anything that caused us trouble, so far".
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"The FLIR camera was working fantastically so we were able to locate the group quickly," Alex Brown, winch operator for the UK Coastguard search and rescue helicopter based at Lydd, said.
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MELILLA (Reuters) - Four migrants have died and up to 16 more are missing after trying to cross into Europe from North Africa on a small raft, Spain's coastguard said on Wednesday.
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MELILLA (Reuters) - Four migrants have died and up to 16 more are missing after trying to cross into Europe from North Africa on a small raft, Spain's coastguard said on Wednesday.
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The Metropolitan Police said more than 200 police officers and staff took part in the exercise on Sunday and also involved other organizations including the fire brigade, ambulance service and coastguard.
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VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta on Tuesday agreed to accept 90 migrants rescued by an Italian coastguard vessel in its search and rescue zone, defusing a stand-off with the new Italian government.
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The coastguard leaflet of happy beaming faces urges people not to lose hope, and that people will get free medical care, food and transport if they move on to reception centers.
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The Golfo Azzurro then stayed in international waters off Sicily until Wednesday, when it had a mechanical problem and Italy's coastguard gave the ship permission to enter the port of Pozzallo.
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Indonesia earlier this week protested what it called an infringement by China over its sovereignty in an incident involving an Indonesian patrol boat, and a Chinese coastguard vessel and fishing boat.
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Under pressure from Italy, the U.N.-backed government has co-opted local groups and tried to bolster Libya's coastguard to stem the record flows of migrants crossing the Mediterranean since 2014.
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This month, Italy began a naval mission in Libyan waters to train and support its coastguard, despite opposition from factions in eastern Libya that oppose the U.N.-backed government based in Tripoli.
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One such dissenter is Gregorio De Falco, a former coastguard commander viewed as a hero in Italy for his role in rescuing survivors from the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship in 2012.
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Last week Italy began a naval mission in Libyan waters to train and support its coastguard, despite opposition from factions in eastern Libya that oppose the U.N.-backed government based in Tripoli.
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Authorities called in multiple agencies — including police, fire and rescue services from Cumbria and Lancashire and the Coastguard — to help save the man, who was trapped nearly 270 feet above the ground.
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The Ta Nea newspaper said specific areas of disagreement also included the privatisation of the country's grid operator ADMIE and freezing the wages of essential services such as the coastguard and police.
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The Ta Nea newspaper said specific areas of disagreement also included the privatization of the country's grid operator ADMIE and freezing the wages of essential services such as the coastguard and police.
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But rights groups and aid workers say partnering with Libya's "unprofessional" coastguard risks exposing migrants to drowning during rescues or to further rights abuses if sent back to detention centers inside Libya.
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Lorenzana said troops deployed on nine Philippine-claimed features in the South China Sea had been ordered to monitor the movements of Chinese navy, coastguard and fishing boats in the Spratly islands.
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The ship, a dry bulk vessel carrying construction materials, sank two to three miles from the port of the north-western Libyan city of Misrata, said Reda Issa, a local coastguard commander.
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Other coastguard vessels arrived and as well as members of the press, some of whom took pictures that subsequently appeared in local media alongside inaccurate reports that the foundered boat had capsized.
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The 343 migrants, including a woman and one child, were rescued on Thursday off the coastal city of Zawiya in western Libya, Libyan coastguard and International Organization for Migration (IOM) officials said.
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Men from the Italian coastguard, dressed in white suits and wearing masks over their faces, carried the bodies on to the dock of the island's small port in black bags on Thursday.
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But the coastguard said a preliminary investigation found the captain had been ordered by the vessel's owner to sail to the Libyan city of Misrata to unload and deliver the entire cargo.
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A total of 73 migrants were picked up by a coastguard patrol about 14 miles off Qarabulli town, some 49 km (30.5 miles) east of the capital Tripoli, spokesman Ayoub Qassem said.
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However, Germany's Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen was cautious about handing over any military equipment to Libya, saying there was still too much uncertainty about the viability of the Libyan coastguard.
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The coastguard and analysts of North Korea have played down the fears, attributing the surge in boats to more mundane reasons, such as a North Korean drive to increase winter fish catches.
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It is now planning to expand to include coastguard training and enforcement of a U.N. arms embargo, and Britain says it intends to deploy a warship to the southern Mediterranean to help.
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The navy said 1,759 migrants were rescued in 10 operations involving the Italian navy, coastguard and finance police, the European Union's external borders agency Frontex and the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - About 100 Chinese fishing boats have been detected encroaching in Malaysia's waters in the disputed South China Sea, Malaysia's state news agency and a coastguard official said on Friday.
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Having picked them up in Greek waters after a request for help from European Union border agency Frontex, the coastguard will take them to the Greek island of Chios, a spokesman said.
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ROME (Reuters) - More than 2000,0003 migrants were rescued from boats in the Mediterranean on Friday, Italy's coastguard said, as numbers soared for the third year running in the build up to summer.
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Migrants intercepted by Libya's European Union-backed coastguard used to be routinely detained on arrival, but recently several detention centers have been shut and large groups of migrants have been let go.
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Most are sub-Saharan Africans and many travel on boats so rickety they risk sinking before arriving and are picked up in Italian or Libyan waters and brought ashore by the coastguard.
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One thing is clear: Italy wants migrants picked up by its ships - should the Libyan coastguard not be able to intervene directly - to be returned to Libya and not taken to Italy.
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After the earlier crash, a CASA 212 coastguard plane hunting for the pilot and wreckage of a Russian-made Sukhoi SU-30 went down in bad weather, killing all nine people aboard.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Seventeen Turkish nationals landed on a beach on a Greek island close to Turkey on Monday, a coastguard official said, and Greek media said they had asked for political asylum.
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Italy's coastguard received a distress call from the vessel on Wednesday evening and alerted the privately funded MOAS ship Phoenix, which used remote-controlled drones to locate the boat, a statement said.
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A crackdown by the Libyan coastguard in August has forced migrants and smugglers to find alternatives, giving Tunisians an opportunity to sell spots on overcrowded boats between the Gulf of Tunis and Sicily.
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The Sophia mission, which aims to combat the criminal gangs that pack the migrants into boats making the perilous crossing from Libya to Europe, started training 78 Libyan coastguard officials on Oct. 993.
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The Libyan coastguard currently lacks the personnel and equipment to patrol more than 1,000 miles of coastline and the EU's Sophia mission can only operate in international waters, 12 nautical miles from land.
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A decade later, a British boat called for help from the UK coastguard and Royal Navy after a similar ambush off the coast of France, but instead a French naval ship was sent.
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ROME (Reuters) - Ship crews pulled more than 2,000 migrants from overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean on Friday, Italy's coastguard said, as people smugglers stepped up operations during two consecutive days of good weather.
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A huge wave washed away six ship crew and coastguard members in Yeosu, a city on the country's southern coast, before they were later rescued, dramatic video from the Yeosu Coast Guard showed.
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ROME (Reuters) - Rescuers saved 484 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Saturday and found the bodies of seven men who had died in the attempt to get to Europe, Italy's coastguard said.
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More than 500 boat migrants were rescued from overcrowded and unsafe boats in seas between Libya and Italy on Thursday, including 146 people plucked from a semi-deflated rubber vessel, Italy's coastguard said.
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Tokyo (CNN)Japan scrambled warplanes on Thursday after four Chinese coastguard ships and a drone aircraft entered territory it claims around disputed islands in the East China Sea, according to Defense Ministry officials.
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Many migrants are taken to the centers after being intercepted by Libya's EU-backed coastguard as they try to reach Europe by sea, a policy that has been criticized by human rights groups.
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Five rescue ships, coordinated by the Italian coastguard, were within sight of the migrants but, despite attempts to rescue them, most died, the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) chief spokesman, Leonard Doyle, said.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A ship's captain being investigated for bringing migrants ashore in defiance of Italian coastguard orders has warned against her case becoming a distraction from the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Libya's coastguard had already intercepted 906 migrants on board damaged wooden and rubber boats on Friday, and earlier in the week humanitarian rescue ships picked up more than 1,000 migrants off Libya's shores.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A ferry collided with at least two yachts and then ran aground in heavy fog off the Isle of Wight in southern England on Sunday, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said.
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VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta's armed forces have started cooperating with Libya's coastguard to turn back migrant boats heading into Malta's search and rescue zone, a newspaper reported on Sunday, citing a secret government deal.
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The new government faces a complex challenge asserting its authority, while efforts to counter people trafficking were thrown into disarray by the conflict that followed Libya's 2011 uprising, and the coastguard feels abandoned.
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Since last July there has been a sharp drop in crossings as Libyan authorities backed by Italy pressured local groups to stop smuggling and supported Libya's coastguard to intercept those who do leave.
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The case emerged four years ago when the Greek coastguard discovered a record two-tonne haul of drugs, mainly heroin, aboard a small tanker called Noor One and in a warehouse near Athens.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has freed 19 Iranian fishermen detained 10 months ago by the kingdom's coastguard, an Iranian official was quoted as saying on Thursday, following talks between the two regional rivals.
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Two months after the June 2017 rescue mission, the Iuventa's operations were halted when the Italian coastguard confiscated their 33-meter former fishing boat, the first time they had seized a humanitarian rescue ship.
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The move comes after South Korean fishermen, frustrated with incursions by Chinese fishing boats in defiance of coastguard warnings, used rope to impound two Chinese trawlers this month and handed them over to authorities.
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In what appeared to be an olive branch to the Philippines, China's coastguard in October started allowing Filipino fishermen to return and fish at the strategic Scarborough Shoal, which Beijing seized in June 2012.
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The rescue operations involved two ships operated by the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Sea Eye and Jugend Rettet and a Spanish vessel participating in the EU's EUNAVFOR mission in the Mediterranean, the coastguard said.
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EU governments agreed on Thursday to speed the formation of a common European border and coastguard that could be in service by this summer to control migrants arriving from the Middle East and Africa.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Seventeen people were missing after a Chinese fishing boat collided with a Maltese cargo ship and sank in the East China Sea on Saturday, state media reported, citing the country's coastguard fleet.
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Dozens of the 0003,771 people who died or went missing trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe in 2015 started in Bodrum and many thousands more were intercepted or rescued by the Turkish coastguard.
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Salvini's opponents accuse him of playing on fear, noting that crossings have fallen sharply since last July, after the previous Italian government targeted people-smuggling networks and Libya's EU-trained coastguard stepped up interceptions.
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On Monday, China's foreign ministry repeated that the fishing boat was operating in "traditional Chinese fishing grounds", again demanded the fishermen be released and added the Chinese coastguard vessel did not enter Indonesian waters.
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Survivors from one of the rafts rescued said four other people had been lost at sea earlier in the journey, a spokeswoman for the coastguard said but could not confirm the higher death toll.
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Australia has sent a P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft to assist in the search and the U.S. Coastguard has sent a Hercules aircraft from Hawaii to scour the northern part of the search area.
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Cristophe Biteau, an Doctors without Borders (MSF) mission leader in Libya, said everyone intercepted by the Libyan coastguard - about 213,21 people this year - ended up held indefinitely in centers run by the Tripoli government.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's coastguard said on Sunday a total of 1,230 migrants had been picked up in nine rescue operations in the waters between Sicily and North Africa, with one dead body being recovered.
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About 5,000 migrants were picked up off the Libyan coast by emergency services, Italy's navy, aid groups and private boats on Monday, and rescues were continuing on Tuesday, according to an Italian coastguard spokesman.
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Ain Zara in southern Tripoli is part of a network of state facilities where Libya holds migrants intercepted by the coastguard while trying to reach Italy by boat with the help of human traffickers.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will not tolerate any challenges to its territorial integrity, its prime minister said on Thursday, days after Turkish and Greek coastguard vessels collided close to disputed islets in the Aegean Sea.
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ABOARD THE GOLFO AZZURRO, Mediterranean (Reuters) - The Libyan coastguard intercepted a humanitarian rescue ship in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, ordering it to sail to Tripoli or risk being targeted, a Reuters photographer aboard said.
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ATHENS, June 13 (Reuters) - Greece ordered two ships on Monday to search for a boat believed to be carrying about 200 migrants which sent a distress signal off the island of Crete, the coastguard said.
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The pair embraced at Palermo airport, where the woman landed from Tunisia, almost five months after the girl, identified only as Oumoh, was plucked from a rickety boat in the Mediterranean by the Italian coastguard.
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Russia's coastguard has since then detained scores of Ukrainian and foreign merchant ships—more than 140 between May and August—for hours and even days at a time, in what amounts to an undeclared blockade.
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An expanded naval mission would be part of the EU's emerging support plan for Libya, which could also work with the U.S.-led NATO alliance to build up a Libyan coastguard capable of stopping traffickers.
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MANILA (Reuters) - China's coastguard rescued two Filipino fishermen from a capsized boat near a disputed South China Sea shoal on Friday, underlining the fast thawing of ties between two countries long at odds over sovereignty.
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The coastguard personnel had little sympathy for the traumatized survivors, Asya said, adding that an Iraqi man wailing with sorrow because his only two children had drowned in front of him was beaten into silence.
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The operation was launched near the town of Dikili, in Izmir province on Turkey's Aegean coast, and involved the coastguard, navy and gendarmerie and was backed by air support, the military said in a statement.
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SKEGNESS, England (Reuters) - The carcass of a fifth sperm whale has washed up on England's east coast, the coastguard said on Monday, after four others died in a spate of beachings nearby in recent days.
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Earlier, Coastguard Duty Commander Steve Carson said: "The weather conditions this morning are particularly challenging and we have declared this a major incident," adding that two search and rescue helicopters were involved in the evacuation.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A Libyan coastguard commander sanctioned by the United Nations for alleged human trafficking and migrant smuggling said he hits migrants but does so for their own safety to prevent them from capsizing.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's coastguard rescued nearly 500 migrants on Tuesday at sea west of the capital Tripoli, a spokesman said, underlining the challenge of trying to slow an exodus from Africa and the Middle East.
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"What's happening now is pre-emptive evacuation in certain areas," said Manuel Mamba, governor of the northeastern province of Cagayan, where schools and offices were closed and police, military and coastguard told to be ready.
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The EU border and coastguard police Frontex deployed 50 officers with night vision cameras and vehicles two months ago at two border entry points favored by migrants, in its first operation outside the bloc's frontiers.
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As it seeks to enforce its claims to much of the South China Sea, China's navy and coastguard now routinely patrol vast swathes of the area through which some $3 trillion in trade passes annually.
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This month, Italy began a naval mission in Libyan waters to provide technical and operational support to its coastguard, despite opposition from factions in eastern Libya that oppose the U.N.-backed government based in Tripoli.
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A recent surge in the number of Chinese coastguard and fishing vessels near islands claimed by Japan in the East China Sea is a sign that the president, Xi Jinping, likes to pander to nationalists.
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The decision was favorable to the plaintiff, Manila, and by extension, Hanoi, which has similar disagreements with China about its island-building and the conduct of its vast coastguard fleet in the South China Sea.
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On Thursday, the coastguard said it had arrested three migrants, one of whom was hiding in a suitcase, when they tried to board a ferry from the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to the mainland.
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Lorenzana's push for greater certainty comes amid a rapid buildup by Beijing of military assets, coastguard and fishing militia in the South China Sea, most notably on and around artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago.
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"On the Libyan side, we will not always intercept the migrants unless we feel that the U.N. and the EU are serious about deportation (to home countries)," coastguard official Abdullah Tomia told reporters in Tripoli.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's coastguard on Sunday recovered the bodies of two female migrants who perished trying to cross the Mediterranean and picked up at least 250 survivors from two boats east of Tripoli, officials said.
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ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday appealed to Italy's European Union partners to take in some of the migrants held on a coastguard ship in a Sicilian port and not allowed to disembark.
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As well as establishing a brewery, he flies miners to and from the Svea mine, scientists up to remote research town of Ny Alesund, and occasionally helps out with coastguard duties when the weather's bad.
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The Philippines has lodged several diplomatic protests in recent weeks over the activities of Chinese coastguard, navy and paramilitary fishing vessels in Philippine-controlled areas of the South China Sea and in its territorial waters.
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On Tuesday, the United Nations criticized European nations for not allowing boatloads of migrants to disembark at safe ports and of relying instead on Libya's coastguard to return them to the dangerous North African country.
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The Haiyang Dizhi 8 vessel first entered Vietnam's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) early last month where it began a weeks-long seismic survey, triggering a standoff between military and coastguard vessels from Vietnam and China.
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Drifting in the darkness in the Aegean Sea and packed into one of the dinghies stranded without a functioning motor, migrants shouted as coastguard vessels approached them off the coast of western Turkey's Izmir province.
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Since local armed factions and Libya's coastguard began blocking more migrants from leaving in July last year, large numbers have been trapped in Libya, where they often face dire conditions and abuse, including forced labor.
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After a sharp fall in migrant arrivals in recent months, numbers have picked up since June, with people-smugglers increasingly towing packed boats deep into international waters to escape especially the Italian-funded Libyan coastguard.
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To clamp down on this, Italy is planning to boost its own sea and air patrols to try to spot traffickers before they leave local waters, and will give 10 motorboats to the Libyan coastguard.
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Migrants caught by the Libyan coastguard at sea or swept up in nighttime raids are detained in migrant centers, both official ones nominally run by the government and others run by an array of armed groups.
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ROME (Reuters) - More than 1,000 migrants were plucked from overcrowded boats and 16 bodies were recovered in the past two days, Italy's coastguard said on Monday, adding to the already record number of arrivals this year.
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The Haiyang Dizhi 8 vessel first entered Vietnam's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) early last month where it began a weeks-long seismic survey, triggering a tense standoff between military and coastguard vessels from Vietnam and China.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has freed three Iranian fishermen detained by the kingdom's coastguard last year, Iran's state news agency IRNA quoted an Iranian official as saying on Tuesday, following negotiations between the two regional rivals.
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The Chinese boat, caught fishing off the southwest of the peninsula, about 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Hongdo Island, would be brought in to a South Korean port later on Friday, the coastguard official said.
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The coastguard gave no details about where the migrants rescued on Saturday came from, but most arriving in Italy come originally from sub-Saharan Africa or Bangladesh, and pay Libya-based smugglers to organize their passage.
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A coastguard helicopter saw the two corpses floating in the sea off the coast of Siculiana in Western Sicily, a spokesman said, adding that only one of the two bodies has so far been picked up.
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - An oil rig that ran aground off a Scottish island on Sunday may have leaked around 53 tonnes of diesel but has not caused any serious pollution, Britain's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said.
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ROME (Reuters) - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Saturday it was suspending its migrant rescues in the Mediterranean because it felt threatened by the Libyan coastguard and the Italian government's policies have made its job harder.
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Morocco, which other Africans can visit without visas, has become a major gateway for migrants into Europe since Italy' tougher line and EU aid to the Libyan coastguard curbed the number of people coming from Libya.
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South Korea's navy and coastguard rescued four people from two vessels on Friday and Saturday, and the four were then questioned by South Korean authorities, who offered to send them home, South Korea's Unification Ministry said.
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Libyan coastguard officials have previously said they have rights over operations dozens of miles beyond the territorial limit of 12 nautical miles, without clearly detailing the claims to such rights or how they could be enforced.
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They said Chinese officials also expressed concern at Vietnam's evolving security relationships with the United States and Japan, both of which have offered moral support for its South China Sea claims and help for Vietnam's coastguard.
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The migrants were on two boats off the coast near Garabulli, east of Tripoli, one of which had already sunk when the coastguard arrived at the scene, said Abu Ajala Amer Abdelbari, a coast guard commander.
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Non-governmental organizations have denounced previous deals by which Italy has directed the Libyan coastguard to pick up migrant boats in Libyan territorial waters, saying refugees face torture and abuse in the lawless north African country.
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Libya is a main departure point for migrants fleeing wars and poverty trying to reach European countries, though crossings have dropped sharply since last July due to a more active coastguard supported by the European Union.
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Earlier on Monday, the Indonesian foreign minister said a Chinese coastguard vessel had "breached" Indonesia's sovereign rights when it prevented Indonesian authorities from detaining a Chinese fishing vessel in waters near the contested South China Sea.
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ATHENS/ANKARA (Reuters) - Greece complained to Turkey on Tuesday that a Turkish vessel had collided with a Greek coastguard boat off disputed islets in the Aegean Sea, but Turkey denied the Turkish ship was at fault.
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A Philippine ferry with 251 people on board capsized during bad weather on Thursday off an island near the capital, Manila, a coastguard spokesman said, and media reported four people had been killed and 140 rescued.
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READ: Italy seized a migrant rescue ship for allegedly dumping toxic waste Italy's coastguard said Friday it could moor 2 km (1.2 miles) off Sicily's shore, but Salvini stressed it must look elsewhere to make landfall.
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In its notice, the coastguard command said it would hire 50 officers, 105 sergeants, and 605 privates under contracts, and announced applicants must have no links to any "terrorist organization or its legal and illegal extensions".
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia said on Monday it had protested to Beijing over the presence of a Chinese coastguard vessel in its territorial waters near the disputed South China Sea, saying it marked a "violation of sovereignty".
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ROME (Reuters) - At least 0003 migrants died off the coast of Libya on Wednesday after they put to sea in stormy weather, the Italian coastguard said, adding that many others might have died in the incident.
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About 11,000 migrants have reached Italy by boat so far this year, some 8,000 arriving without the need of any help from the coastguard or NGO charity ships that patrol the Mediterranean, interior ministry data shows.
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The United States gave six patrol boats to the Vietnamese coastguard in March last year, the latest move in increased security ties between them, following a landmark visit by a U.S. aircraft carrier the same month.
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The exact causes of the deaths were not yet known, a coastguard spokesman said, but the migrants often "travel in inhuman conditions, more than 100 people packed into dinghies that would be suitable for a few dozen".
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Tension has been growing for weeks between aid groups and the Italian government, which has suggested some NGOs are facilitating people smuggling and is trying to enhance the role of the Libyan coastguard in blocking migrant departures.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's coastguard said it helped rescue 801 migrants from two boats off western Sicily on Thursday, including many Syrians, amid signs that refugees from the Middle East are increasingly shunning the Greek route into Europe.
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A Greek-flagged tanker and a Panama-flagged freighter in the area were heading to the location, about 80 nautical miles south of Crete and 15 nautical miles within Libyan waters, coastguard spokesman Nikos Lagkadianos told Reuters.
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Under the accord, Italy and the European Union pledged to finance migrant camps in Libya, and Rome also agreed to train the Libyan coastguard, part of a crackdown on migrants attempting the hazardous sea crossing to Europe.
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Reuters journalists visited the coral atoll this month and saw a substantially larger Chinese coastguard and fishing presence than usual, although it was allowing Filipinos to fish inside the shoal for the first time since the blockade.
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The order creates an Inter-agency Committee on Anti-illegal Drugs (ICAD), that encompasses bodies from police, military and coastguard to health, education and social welfare, and aims to rehabilitate users and suppress dealers large and small.
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ABOARD THE GOLFO AZZURRO, Mediterranean, Aug 15 (Reuters) - T he Libyan coastguard intercepted a humanitarian rescue ship in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, ordering it to sail to Tripoli or risk being targeted, a Reuters photographer aboard said.
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"You are sailing in our waters for months now and you are conducting activities that are causing problems to Libyan state sovereignty," said a man who identified himself as part of the Libyan coastguard, speaking in English.
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"The coastguard team found no signs of any explosion and, having consulted contemporary weather reports from 1944, determined that the tug probably foundered in heavy seas and 40-knot winds," explained the Royal Navy in a statement.
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Spanish authorities said they had rescued nearly 600 migrants trying to make the perilous crossing from Africa, while off the coast of Libya coastguards recovered bodies of five migrants and picked up 210 survivors, the coastguard said.
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"We don't even have uniforms," said Ayman al-Dabbashi, a navy officer dressed in civilian clothes, who said he was transferred to Sabratha from Tripoli as some coastguard personnel who had collaborated with smugglers were pushed out.
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The tragedy demonstrates the continued allure of Europe for desperate migrants fleeing conflicts and poverty, Doyle said, despite tighter surveillance of the main smuggling routes by the Libyan coastguard, backed up by European cash and know-how.
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Ma's office earlier announced that the president, who steps down in May, would fly to Itu Aba on Thursday to offer Chinese New Year wishes to residents on the island, mainly Taiwanese coastguard personnel and environmental scholars.
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The grave rise in tension with Japan over the uninhabited Senkaku, or Diaoyu, islands in the East China Sea dates back to September 2010, when a Chinese trawler, apprehended for illegal fishing, rammed a Japanese coastguard vessel.
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The ship will be detained and the captain questioned, Muscat said, because of its refusal to leave the migrant boats to be intercepted by the Libyan coastguard, as it had been told to do by Italian authorities.
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"In general, we do not reject (NGO) presence, but we demand from them more cooperation with the state of Libya ... they should show more respect to the Libyan sovereignty," coastguard spokesman Ayoub Qassem told Reuters on Sunday.
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Mohamed al-Alay, a coastguard officer in the Houthi-controled Hodeidah area, said the refugees, carrying official UNHCR documents, were going to Sudan from Yemen when an Apache helicopter attacked near the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait.
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Italy's coastguard said at least nine migrants had died and a pregnant woman and a child had been taken by helicopter to a hospital on the Italian island of Lampedusa, halfway between Sicily and the Libyan coast.
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The government also said it would find ways of helping the privately-owned Peene shipyard in Germany, which has been prevented by the export ban from completing and delivering coastguard ships it has built for Saudi Arabia.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least 31 migrants died after their boat sank off Libya's western coast on Saturday and some 200 others were picked up by the coastguard to be brought back to port in Tripoli, officials said.
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Also present will be foreign ministers of Japan, the United States, China and Australia, plus those of the Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam, which have recently been impacted by Chinese vessels, including the coastguard and a fishing militia.
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Salvini was placed under investigation last August for alleged abuse of power and holding people against their will after he denied permission for the Italian coastguard ship Diciotti to let a group of mainly Eritrean migrants disembark.
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The government declined to comment directly on the report in the Sunday Times of Malta, but told Reuters the Mediterranean state had been working with the Libyan coastguard for many years and always operated within the law.
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On Tuesday, after the migrants and refugees were reportedly forced off the ship, a man who identified himself as a member of the Libyan coastguard answered one of the phones the teenagers had been using to communicate.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will step up efforts to bolster its coastguard as a territorial dispute with China over a group of East China Sea islets shows no signs of abating, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday.
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Also on Sunday, a record number of Chinese coastguard and other government ships entered areas of waters just outside what Japan considers its territorial waters around a group of contested East China Sea islets, further stoking tensions.
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The latest row follows a confrontation between the two countries in the same waters in March, when a Chinese coastguard vessel rammed a Chinese fishing vessel to release it after it had been seized by Indonesian authorities.
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More than 80 migrants survived the incident off the city of Sabratha, about 70 km (44 miles) west of Tripoli, and coastguards brought them back to the nearby city of Zawiya, said naval coastguard spokesman Ayoub Qassem.
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They were told by Italy that Libya's coastguard was coming to get them, but decided to rescue the migrants because they would not have been safe if taken back to Libya, a spokesman for the charity said.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will help rebuild Libya's shattered navy and coastguard to tackle migrant smugglers after a plea for aid from the new U.N.-backed unity government in Tripoli, EU foreign ministers agreed on Monday.
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In July, two weeks before he abandoned a coalition with the 5-Star Movement, he refused to let migrants disembark from the Gregoretti coastguard vessel, ignoring pleas from human rights groups to let the group come ashore.
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"In order to proceed with the transfer operation, the naval units approached the small boat, but the adverse weather conditions and the sudden movement of migrants caused the vessel to overturn," the coastguard said in a statement.
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MASINLOC/MANILA, Philippines (Reuters) - A 30-foot trawler named "Marvin" lies beached on a grass bank overlooking the South China Sea, idle since China's coastguard began driving away Philippine fishermen after a fierce standoff four years ago.
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ANKARA, July 3 (Reuters) - Turkey strongly condemned the Greek coastguard on Monday for firing on a Turkish freighter in the Aegean Sea and called it an "disproportionate" act that disregarded the most basic right of human life.
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Distraught at the sight of bodies being carried of the boat, relatives shouted at military and coastguard officials, complaining they had done too little to save lives when the vessel had capsized so close to the Egyptian coast.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - When Libya's coastguard received the first of a long-awaited batch of patrol boats from Italy last month, two of the four vessels still had mechanical problems and one broke down on the way to Tripoli.
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Both the Zawiya branch of Libya's Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) and the local coastguard have been accused of involvement in fuel smuggling, which according to the U.N. investigators overlaps with lucrative smuggling of migrants from Libya to Italy.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The launch of a coastguard in Kenya - one of a handful in Africa - could cut illegal fishing and boost the economy, experts said on Tuesday, although the service only has one boat so far.
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"We are suspending our activities because now we feel that the threatening behaviour by the Libyan coastguard is very serious ... we cannot put our colleagues in danger," the president of MSF's Italian arm Loris De Filippi told Reuters.
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SUBIC, Philippines (Reuters) - On his first voyage as captain, Philippine fisherman Joel Banila was more worried about being battered by Chinese coastguard ships than he was about the impending storm on the horizon in the South China Sea.
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Closer to home, there should be measures to strengthen the euro's stability, a drive to remove terrorist content from the internet faster and a big increase in the staffing and powers of the EU's puny border- and coastguard.
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With a permanent presence of large coastguard vessels, China blockaded the Scarborough Shoal for more than four years but ended that in October 2016 at the request of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who said Filipino fishermen were suffering.
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Manila wanted to enforce the points of the complex ruling step-by-step but as a priority had asked China to let its fishermen go to the contested Scarborough Shoal without being harassed by its coastguard, Yasay said.
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Last year, a hole was blown in the side of a humanitarian boat belonging to Doctors without Borders, and gunshots have been fired into the air several times this year by vessels identifying themselves as the Libyan coastguard.
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"We are suspending our activities because now we feel that the threatening behavior by the Libyan coastguard is very serious ... we cannot put our colleagues in danger," the president of MSF's Italian arm Loris De Filippi told Reuters.
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De Filippi said the Rome government's Code of Conduct for NGOs and its support for the Libyan coastguard showed it was now mixing the humanitarian goal of saving lives with "a political and military intention" of reducing arrivals.
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From July, the number of crossings dropped sharply, a change attributed to increased activity by Libya's EU-trained coastguard and to the Dabbashi brigade blocking departures in return for offers of amnesty and jobs in the security forces.
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EU leaders pledged to fast-track the establishment of an EU border and coastguard force at a summit last month and are due to agree the details of the new border force by the middle of this year.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly an hour elapsed before a Philippine-flagged container ship reported a collision with a U.S. warship, the Japanese coastguard said on Monday, as investigations began into the accident in which seven U.S. sailors were killed.
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The ill-fated boat probably tipped because of a combination of weather conditions and the fact the migrants suddenly crowded to one side, sending just under half of the 500 on board into the water, the coastguard said.
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The Coastguard said a member of the public had called emergency services after hearing cries of help from Cowes Harbour, but after an extensive search by rescue teams it said no one was in the water or missing.
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Under the terms of the deal, when a migrant boat is spotted sailing toward Malta, the island's armed forces seek the intervention of the Libyan coastguard to intercept them before they enter Malta's territorial waters, the paper said.
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The official China Daily reported on Tuesday China's coastguard was preparing to launch a new, large, armed vessel, which could be assigned to cover the South China Sea, where China has territorial disputes with several Southeast Asian neighbors.
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MANILA (Reuters) - China's coastguard has prevented Filipino boats from fishing around the hotly contested Scarborough Shoal, Philippine officials said on Friday, after Beijing kept a promise to ignore a court ruling voiding its vast South China Sea claims.
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Around 2000,21 people were taken off often flimsy vessels over the whole week, the United Nations and the coastguard said, and hundreds may have drowned, survivors and boat crews added, though there are no official estimates of casualties.
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The M/V Jin Teng, a 6,830 deadweight tonne (dwt) cargo ship with its 21 North Korean crew, left on Thursday afternoon for China after clearing immigration, customs, quarantine and port authorities, said coastguard spokesman Commander Armand Balilo.
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The 37 migrants, including a child, were rescued by the Spanish coastguard six miles off the island of Gran Canaria after attempting to make the dangerous crossing from North Africa, the Canary Islands emergency services said on Twitter.
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Recent actions by the Libyan coastguard have in part prompted three humanitarian groups - Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders and Germany's Sea Eye - to suspend migrant rescue operations at sea in the past week because they felt threatened.
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From July, the number of crossings dropped sharply, a change attributed to increased activity by Libya's EU-trained coastguard and to the Dabbashi brigade blocking departures in return for offers of an amnesty and jobs in the security forces.
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The criminal group was active on the island of Kos, the coastguard said in a statement, adding that the authorities seized computers, cameras and a large number of fake documents and mobile phones from several houses on the island.
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Satellite imagery taken on Saturday by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative and The Center for Strategic and International Studies, however, showed fishermen were not entering the shoal itself and were working on its periphery, with China's coastguard still present.
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Neighboring Libya's west coast is a main departure point for African migrants hoping to reach Europe by paying human traffickers, though numbers have dropped due to an Italian-led effort to disrupt smuggling networks and support the Libyan coastguard.
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Turkish naval forces, the coastguard and special forces from the eastern Mediterranean province of Mersin took part in the raid, seizing 40 sacks containing 1,071 kg (2,361 lb) of heroin hidden in secret compartments on the ship, police said.
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In March, Italy's parliament voted to prevent prosecutors from pursuing an investigation into Salvini for abuse of power and kidnapping after he blocked a coastguard ship with 150 migrants aboard for almost a week off the coast of Sicily.
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A North Korean boat telephoned a Japanese fishing office to report that another North Korean vessel had sunk in the northern part of a rich fishing ground known as the Yamato Shallows, a spokesman for the Japanese coastguard said.
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With European Union and Italian support, Libya's coastguard has increased interceptions of migrants in an area stretching 155 km (95 miles) off the coast, while charity rescue ships that once guided many of the migrants to Italy have retreated.
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In the last six weeks the number of migrant arrivals in Italy has slowed sharply and Rome has begun collaborating more closely with the Libyan coastguard, which De Filippi said was threatening the NGOs and preventing them from working.
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Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has accused the groups of acting as a de-facto taxi service for the people-smugglers and has looked to beef up the coastguard in violence-riddled Libya to make sure migrants stay in Africa.
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Abdalrahman al-Milad, who heads a coastguard unit in Zawiya, just west of Tripoli, was one of six people sanctioned for involvement in people trafficking or smuggling in Libya on June 7, in the first move of its kind.
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Besides 1,428 newcomers who disembarked from an Italian coastguard vessel in the Sicilian port of Catania, a further 935 were due in the southern Italian port of Salerno, 860 were due to arrive in Brindisi and 1,200 in Crotone.
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Libya is one of the main departure points for African migrants fleeing poverty and war to try to reach Italy by boat, but many are picked up and brought back by the Libyan coastguard, supported by the European Union.
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Tension has also been growing for weeks between aid groups and the Italian government, which has suggested some NGOs are facilitating people smuggling, while Italy is trying to enhance the role of the Libyan coastguard in blocking migrant departures.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's coastguard has said it plans to hold rescue drills in waters around Taipei's sole territorial holding in the disputed South China Sea at the end of this month, and that the drills could involve its navy.
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ROME (Reuters) - Some 1,400 boat migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe have been rescued so far on Tuesday, Italy's coastguard said, after at least 11 overcrowded boats set out from Libya amid calm seas.
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A Reuters reporter in Crimea, which Russian annexed from Ukraine in 2014, earlier on Sunday saw coastguard boats pulling the three vessels through the Kerch Strait toward the Black Sea where they could potentially be handed over to Ukraine.
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MSF said it suspended migrant rescues in 2017 after the Libyan coastguard fired at one of its boats and because of pressure from Italy to sign a Code of Conduct requiring that Italian police officers be on its boats.
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BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - France's coastguard on Wednesday called off searches for the head of the U.S. firm that owns the Quiksilver surfwear brand, a day after his boat washed up empty on the country's Atlantic coast, local authorities said.
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HANOI (Reuters) - China sent ships on Friday in response to a request from Vietnam to help find a coastguard plane that crashed with nine personnel aboard while looking for a missing fighter jet and pilot, Vietnam's defense ministry said.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's far-right League leader Matteo Salvini, looking to avoid trial for alleged kidnapping, has defended his decision to detain migrants on a coastguard boat last July, saying the move had been backed by the whole government.
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It was the latest in a series of incidents in which non-governmental organizations (NGOs), operating on the edge of Libyan waters to rescue migrants trying to cross from Africa to Italy, have been threatened by the Libyan coastguard.
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In July, two weeks before he abandoned a coalition with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, he refused to let migrants disembark from the Gregoretti coastguard vessel, ignoring pleas from human rights groups to let the group come ashore.
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ROME (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled 700 boat migrants to safety in the Mediterranean and found 23 bodies during one operation on Friday, an Italian coastguard spokesman said, the second loss of multiple lives recorded in the area so far this week.
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Sunday's incident is the latest confrontation involving China's vast fishing fleet, which experts say has been co-opted to serve as Beijing's militia and augment its constant coastguard presence in waters also claimed by Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines and Brunei.
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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said that envoys from EU states who met in Brussels on Friday did not reach a deal to share out the 150 migrants on board the Diciotti, an Italian coastguard ship docked in Catania since Monday.
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He said the Libyan coastguard had demanded the NGOs should leave an area of hundreds of kilometres around its coast, whereas previously they had been allowed to conduct search and rescue operations as close as 11 nautical miles to the mainland.
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A small flotilla of charity boats have become increasingly important in rescue operations, picking up more than a third of all migrants brought ashore so far this year against less than one percent in 2014, according to the Italian coastguard.
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ROME (Reuters) - Training Libya's coastguard to stop people smugglers and rescue boat migrants could help save many lives and avoid incidents in which Libyan officials have behaved too aggressively, the head of the European Union's Mediterranean mission said on Wednesday.
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If the Open Arms attempts to dock in Lampedusa, it could face resistance from a coastguard vessel stationed near the mouth of the port - a scene that played out in June when the captain of another charity ship defied Salvini's ban.
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Seven aircraft from New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. coastguard have been combing around 92,000 square km (35,500 square miles) of ocean for the missing life raft, which was designed to hold about 25 people but capable of squeezing on more.
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One of the men rescued by Dignity 0003 says that the smugglers gave him a satellite phone with which to call the Italian coastguard, and told him to throw it overboard afterwards so it could not be traced back to them.
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ROME (Reuters) - The European Union's Mediterranean naval force is offering to train Libyans to run a small coastguard fleet to be able to fight people smuggling in under three months, the admiral in charge of the mission said on Wednesday.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Japan on Thursday delivered to the Philippines the first of 10 coastguard vessels to help it improve its maritime security and law enforcement in the South China Sea where tension has been rising over a territorial dispute with China.
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Sunday's incident is the latest confrontation involving China's vast fishing fleet, which experts say has been co-opted to serve as Beijing's militia and augment its constant coastguard presence in waters also claimed by Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines and Brunei.
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One of the victims from Wednesday night's capsize, in which their boat hit rough weather as it traveled toward the Greek island of Lesbos, managed to swim ashore but died during attempts to revive him, a coastguard official told Reuters.
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He reiterated he would not deviate from the court ruling but would seek a way out of a four-year deadlock at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea and for China's coastguard to let Filipinos fish there unimpeded.
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MANILA, July 15 (Reuters) - China's coastguard has prevented Filipino boats from fishing around the hotly contested Scarborough Shoal, Philippine officials said on Friday, after Beijing kept a promise to ignore a court ruling voiding its vast South China Sea claims.
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But an incident on the weekend involving an Indonesian patrol boat, and a Chinese coastguard vessel and fishing boat in what Indonesia said was its waters has angered it and led to its questioning of its work to promote peace.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - After three days at sea trying to reach Europe, Demba Dembele was intercepted by Libya's EU-backed coastguard and returned to Tripoli – where, like dozens of other migrants, he got in a taxi and set off into the city.
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Ties between Asia's two largest economies have been strained in recent days since Japan saw a growing number of Chinese coastguard and other government ships sailing near the East China Sea islets, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
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Most migrants are picked up by international vessels and taken to Italy, where more than 115,000 have landed so far this year, although an increasing number are intercepted by Libya's European-backed coastguard and returned to the North African country.
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This month parliament rejected a request by prosecutors to investigate him for kidnapping over a case in August when he blocked an Italian coastguard ship with 150 migrants aboard for almost a week off Sicily before finally letting it dock.
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LONDON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - A British rescue worker was battered by waves but still completed a daring sea rescue after three people got into difficulty on the west coast of England, a video released by British coastguard service on Tuesday showed.
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Japan's coastguard budget for the year starting next April will exceed 210 billion yen ($1.8 billion) to help add five new large patrol ships to its fleet and increase the maritime law enforcement agency's personnel by more than 200, Abe said.
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The coastguard said this meant more than 5,600 migrants had been rescued from various boats and dinghies in the southern Mediterranean in just two days, with every ship in the area being called on to help with the complex operation.
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After an incident last month involving an Indonesian patrol boat and a Chinese coastguard vessel and fishing boat in what Indonesia said were its waters, Jakarta said it "felt sabotaged" in its efforts to maintain peace in the South China Sea.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Thursday his party would vote to suspend funding to the European Union next year unless other states agreed to take in migrants being held on a coastguard ship in Sicily.
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Migrant flows across the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy - one of the main routes to Europe - have tapered off as Libyan factions have cracked down on people-smugglers, and as the EU has bolstered its support for the Libyan coastguard.
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BORDEAUX, France, Jan 30 (Reuters) - France's coastguard on Tuesday launched a search operation for Pierre Agnes, the chief executive of surfwear company Boardriders, after his sailing boat was found on a beach on France's Atlantic coast, the local prefecture said.
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China sent one rescue and two coastguard boats to help search for the CASA plane in response to Vietnam's request for assistance and to allow its vessels to enter the Chinese side of a maritime boundary agreed between the two countries.
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Italy's coastguard said earlier it had picked up the migrants from a sinking boat off Libya at the request of the Maltese rescue coordination center, but Malta had initially refused to send a vessel to transfer them to its mainland.
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In July, some two weeks before he pulled the League out of its coalition with the 5-Star Movement, Salvini refused to let 131 migrants disembark from the Gregoretti coastguard vessel until other European states agreed to take them in.
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ROME (Reuters) - A special tribunal has recommended that former Italian interior minister and far-right League party leader Matteo Salvini face trial for holding scores of migrants on board a coastguard ship docked in a port in Sicily in July.
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TOKYO, May 18 (Reuters) - Japan on Thursday lodged a protest with China after four Chinese coastguard vessels entered what Tokyo considers its territorial waters near disputed East China Sea islets and a drone-like object flew near one ship, the Japanese government said.
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Plans for the visit come as countries such as Vietnam, the Philippines and its ally the United States push back over the activities of the Chinese coastguard and a fishing militia that is thousands-strong in disputed areas of the South China Sea.
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By law, it would be difficult for Italy to refuse the boat a safe haven, as its own coastguard coordinated the rescues, picking up more than 280 migrants in its own vessels before transferring them to the Aquarius to be taken to safety.
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The agreement's clever construction means that poor countries without much by way of navy or coastguard can deny a suspicious foreign vessel entry to their ports and pass its details on to other countries that might have the wherewithal to check it out.
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Philippine coastguard spokesman Commander Armand Balilo said the force would be expanded over the next two years with the recruitment of 6,000 more personnel and the acquisition of more boats and aircraft from the United States to protect the country's exclusive economic zone.
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Today The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are visiting North Wales to meet individuals and organisations who are encouraging people to look after their communities and protect the natural environment — starting with a visit to Caernarfon Coastguard Search and Rescue 🚁 pic.twitter.
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ROME/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Italy wants Libya's coastguard to take responsibility within three years for intercepting migrants across about a tenth of the Mediterranean even as Libyan crews struggle to patrol their own coast and are accused of making deadly mistakes at sea.
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ROME (Reuters) - Two migrants drowned off the coast of Sicily, Italy's coastguard said on Friday, adding to the thousands who have died in the Mediterranean in the last year as European Union leaders argued in Brussels over how to deal with the crisis.
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He said the Libyan coastguard had demanded the NGOs should leave an area of up to hundreds of kilometers around its coast, whereas previously they had been allowed to conduct search and rescue operations as close as 11 nautical miles to the mainland.
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Ties between China and Japan, Asia's two largest economies, have been strained of late after a growing number of Chinese coastguard and other government ships sailed near disputed islets in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
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DIDIM, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's coastguard intercepted dozens of mostly Syrian migrants in coves along the Aegean coast on Wednesday as they continued to attempt perilous sea crossings to Greece despite Ankara's efforts to stem the flow under a deal with the European Union.
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ROME (Reuters) - Some 3000 migrants were saved in the Strait of Sicily in 30 separate rescue missions on Tuesday, the Italian coastguard said, bringing the total to almost 0003,000 in two days and marking a sharp acceleration in refugee arrivals in Italy.
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The Malta deal appears to go a step further by encouraging the Libyan coastguard to intervene beyond its own coastal waters, which extend some 22.2 km (14 miles) from its shore, and into the broad search-and-rescue zone operated by Malta.
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Several migrants on two of the rescued dinghies said their boats' motors were disconnected by Greek coastguard vessels to prevent them reaching the island of Lesbos, a popular destination for migrants some 25 km (16 miles) from Turkey's coastal town of Dikili.
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Because the Libyan coastguard returns migrants to detention centers where they are held indefinitely in "inhuman" conditions, according to the United Nations, Italy wants U.N. agencies to bolster their presence there and to operate migrant camps that respect human rights, the source said.
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The coastguard said rescue vessels had picked up 22 survivors, but they feared many other people might have died in the accident - the latest in a long line of sea disasters to hit migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean and reach Europe.
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Rights group Amnesty International last month accused European governments of being complicit in the torture and abuse of migrants and refugees in Libya by supporting efforts by the Libyan coastguard to prevent migrants crossing the Mediterranean and return them to camps in Libya.
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"Then once we got closer and could see the amount of growth on it I knew it was a long time in the water and that it was only a danger to navigation so I notified the Coastguard of its position," he said.
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In February, when the League was in government with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, parliament rejected a magistrates' request to pursue a kidnapping probe into Salvini for refusing permission to disembark for some 150 migrants on a coastguard ship stranded off Sicily.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia said on Wednesday it rejected China's claims over a disputed part of the South China Sea as "having no legal basis", after two days earlier protesting to Beijing over the presence of a Chinese coastguard vessel in its territorial waters.
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By strengthening the coastguard of Libya, the country from which most migrants have in recent years attempted the perilous journey toward Europe, the mission has contributed to bringing down arrivals from more than a million in 2015 to a tenth of that figure this year.
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It also comes amid strains in ties between the two historic foes that had warmed under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, largely due to what Manila sees as a pattern of provocation this year by Chinese coastguard, military and fishing militia in the South China Sea.
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The decision gives magistrates in Sicily the go-ahead to press charges over his decision to keep 131 rescued migrants blocked aboard a coastguard ship for six days last July as he waited for other European Union states to agree to take them in.
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This summer, BuzzFeed News joined the volunteers on the ship for what proved to be its last mission and saw firsthand the difficulties — including losing their flag, facing off with the Libyan coastguard, and being refused re-entry to European waters — that the vessel faced.
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The outgoing coalition comprising the far-right League and 5-Star, adopted an uncompromising approach to immigration, shutting ports to private rescue ships, threatening huge fines on transgressors and pulling back navy and coastguard vessels far from the Libyan coastline where migrants often need saving.
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ATHENS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - At least eight migrants including two children drowned when a wooden boat carrying them capsized north of the Greek island of Kalolimnos early on Friday, a coastguard official said, as the refugee flow towards Europe continues despite the winter cold.
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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said a wage freeze "would have been a great injustice for men and women in the army, police and coastguard who work 24/7 helping a country that is struggling with an unprecedented refugee crisis to stand on its feet".
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Three Chinese fishermen were killed on Thursday in a fire that broke out on their boat when South Korean coastguard men trying to apprehend them for illegal fishing threw flash grenades into a room they were hiding in, a South Korean official said.
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ANKARA, March 18 (Reuters) - A total of 1,734 migrants and 16 people smugglers were detained by Turkish coastguard and gendarmerie in an operation on Friday, security forces said in a statement, part of a massive sweep to stop refugees reaching the Greek island of Lesbos.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy will let its coastguard ship carrying 177 migrants it rescued five days ago dock in Sicily, ending a standoff with Malta, its transport minister said on Monday, though it was not clear when and if the migrants would be allowed to disembark.
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Tensions spiked in May, 2014 as rival coastguard and fishing fleets clashed at sea in ramming and blocking actions after the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) moved a large deepwater rig to drill test wells in exploration blocks off the Vietnamese central coast.
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The U.N. Security Council said Milad's unit was "consistently linked with violence against migrants and other human smugglers" and cited claims by a U.N. panel of experts that he and other coastguard members were "directly involved in the sinking of migrant boats using firearms".
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"We want to protest strongly and deliver a note containing the following information: first the infringement by the Chinese coastguard on Indonesian sovereign and jurisdiction rights in the Exclusive Economy Zone (EEZ) as well as in our waters," Marsudi told a news conference Monday.
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What is important for a long-term solution to the smuggling is that the Seraj government build a national consensus so that it can eventually enforce territorial control, and EU training and boats so that it can field its own coastguard fleet, Safar added.
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For example, there are facilities for crew members if the Airlander 10 is being used for maritime and coastguard purposes, and its maker claims it can be used for defense and security because it has on-board sensors that can be used to gather data.
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That changed four years ago when China's coastguard swept in and seized the Scarborough Shoal, making it very difficult for the Filipino fishermen to get access to a tranquil South China Sea lagoon rich in fish stocks some 124 nautical miles off their shores.
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"They shut us up, they imprison us, they ask us for money," said one 22-year-old from Guinea, who has been in the center since March, when he was intercepted by the Libyan coastguard with about 120 other migrants shortly after they set off for Italy.
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The purpose of Will and Kate's trip is to learn about the ways individuals and organizations in Caernarfon look after the community, with a focus on the environment, starting with Caernarfon Coastguard Search and Rescue Helicopter Base, followed by a discussion about mental health, the BBC reports.
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It is filling the scene of the stand-off—the waters around the Paracel Islands, a clutch of sunbleached rocks and reefs which are also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan—with a hybrid armada comprising scores of navy ships, coastguard cutters, maritime militia craft and trawlers.
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SEOUL, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Three Chinese fishermen were killed on Thursday in a fire that broke out on their boat when South Korean coastguard men trying to apprehend them for illegal fishing threw flash grenades into a room they were hiding in, a South Korean official said.
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Indonesia is already seething with anger at China's reaction to an incident last month in which a Chinese coastguard cutter rammed free a Chinese fishing boat as the Indonesian authorities were towing it to port, having just caught it poaching in waters off Indonesia's Natuna islands.
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A Philippine coastguard vessel navigated choppy waters to collect the two fishermen from the Chinese ship, in what would be the first time in four years both countries' coastguards were in close proximity in the Scarborough Shoal, a rocky outcrop at the heart of years of diplomatic tension.
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Further afield in Morocco, Spanish journalist and human rights advocate Helena Maleno Garzón faces a life sentence over accusations that she colluded with human traffickers; she is thought to have saved hundreds of lives by alerting the Spanish coastguard to the distress calls of migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
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