CPOY 70 General News
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Award of Excellence: Refugee Crisis
June 22, 2015
Over 220 refugees wait to step on Italian soil. On June 22nd, a Singaporean ship managed by the Danish shipping company TORM A/S, rescued two boats off the Libyan coast with 221 refugees mostly from West Africa. The southern Italian town of Reggio Calabria saw over 25,000 refugees land in its port between June of 2014 and June of 2015.
Andrea Patiño Contreras / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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