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Mediterranean crossing

Migrants fall into the water during a rescue in the Mediterranean.

What it’s like aboard an NGO ship rescuing hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean

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The World’s Richard Hall spent a week on a Save the Children rescue ship. Here are the sights and sounds from their harrowing voyage.

Migrant Offshore Aid Station rescues migrants from a rubber dinghy during an operation in the central Mediterranean

This group wants to ‘defend Europe’ from migrants at sea

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African migrants arriving in Italy from Mediterranean

African migrants are reaching Europe with tales of kidnap and torture in Libya

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A settlement for Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.

Refugee Day: Photos of a historic migration of people seeking safer and better lives

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The Libyan coast guard boards a boat in the Mediterranean while humanitarian groups bring migrants onto their ships.

Libya’s coast guard is ‘endangering lives’ of migrants trying to reach Europe

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Save the Children workers rescue migrants on a boat in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya

Aid groups rescue over 1,600 migrants in the Mediterranean in a single day

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The World’s Richard Hall reported aboard Save the Children’s rescue ship in the Mediterranean. On Tuesday, they saved 635 people — a record for the group’s sea rescue operations. Doctors Without Borders rescued another 1,004 people on the same day.

Italian coastguard personnel in protective clothing carry the body of a dead immigrant off their ship, Bruno Gregoretti, in the Grand Harbor of Valletta, Malta, on April 20, 2015.

‘I am saving up to take the death boat to Europe’

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Despite the clear and growing dangers of crossing the Mediterranean Sea in search of refuge in Europe, the stream of migrants is only getting bigger. The people making the journey say it’s better to take a deadly chance than die slowly in civil wars or along the dangerous routes away from home.