Trump takes time out from presiding over Covid-19 disaster to play golf as US death toll closes in on 100,000

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump played golf on Saturday for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic as the death toll in the country neared 100,000

NGOs urge supporters to demand the Italian government releases seized rescue ships

Meanwhile, the IOM and UNHCR put pressure on Malta to bring 160 refugees detained on offshore tour ships to dry land

Malta endangered refugees with reckless manoeuvres before forcing them to head towards Italy

MALTA’S armed forces were today accused of putting the lives of 101 refugees in danger before eventually facilitating their arrival in Italy last m

Interview The far-right and Italian spooks spied on our rescue missions

DARIUSH BEIGUI and HENDRIK SIMON, former members of the NGO rescue ship Iuventa, tell Ben Cowles how Matteo Salvini and the Italian secret services tried to criminalise them for saving lives at sea

Language school workers call on colleagues to unite and bargain collectively in redundancy talks

Italy accused of detaining NGO refugee ships on false pretences

The civil rescue fleet warns the country's actions could be used as a pretext to stop their life-saving missions

‘I will leave you to die in the water’ Maltese soldier told 66 refugees, according to testimony

A MALTESE soldier told a boatload of refugees last month that he would leave them to die in the water after sabotaging their engine, according to t

Malta warned not to organise second pushback of refugees to Libya

Warning comes days after Prime Minister admits involvement in Easter pushback

Alarm Phone: sending out an SOS

Ben Cowles spoke to JACOB BERKSON, one of a transnational team of activists who monitor refugee boats in the Mediterranean, pressing the European coastguard to save drowning migrants

Awkward questions for Malta after details emerge of the ‘ghost ship’ that returned 51 refugees to Libya

AWKWARD questions have been raised over the Maltese government’s involvement in the return of refugees to Libya last week on a ship that may have t