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UK axes support for Mediterranean migrant rescue operationRefugees and human rights organisations react with anger as minister says saving people encourages others to risk voyageBritain will not support any future search and rescue operations to prevent migrants and refugees drowning in the Mediterranean, claiming they simply encourage more people to attempt the dangerous sea crossing, Foreign Office ministers have quietly announced.Refugee and human rights organisations reacted with anger to the official British refusal to support a sustained European search and rescue operation to prevent further mass migrant drownings, saying it would contribute to more people dying needlessly on Europe’s doorstep.The British refusal comes as the official Italian sea and rescue operation, Mare Nostrum, is due to end this week after contributing over the past 12 months to the rescue of an estimated 150,000 people since the Lampedusa tragedies in which 500 migrants died in October 2013.The Italian operation will now end without a similar European search and rescue operation to replace it. The Italian authorities have said their operation, which involves a significant part of the Italian navy, is unsustainable.
A COUPLE has spoken of their shock at being robbed of $20 by a nurse after the premature birth of their son.The nurse at East Melbourne’s Epworth Freemasons hospital lost her job after stealing from the man’s wallet.She had thought the room empty, but was spotted in the act by the baby’s new grandfather, watching from Greece over a Skype link.First-time dad Nick, 31, who did not want his surname published, was visiting his new son, who was born six weeks premature, when his wife, Chrysa, 28, called him from the room.“My husband went back ... and his dad said to him, ‘Check your wallet, because I saw a lady come into the room and she opened your wallet and took something red’,” Chrysa said.“(We checked) and we see that the money wasn’t there.”Chrysa said when the nurse returned her father-in-law, still on Skype, identified her as the thief.
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