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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1bb44cfa-c3df-4cbf-8856-ad417dab8a32/81FBFB5F-F448-4FD3-B705-F3540777C738/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,561711,00.html" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,561711,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spiegel.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,561711,00.html"><STRONG>As the weather warms up and the waves calm down, thousands of would-be immigrants are setting sail for Europe from African shores. Many get picked up by EU authorities -- or die before they get that far.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,561711,00.html"> Over the past two days alone, over 800 illegal immigrants have landed on the shores of southern Italy, with most of them heading for the <A href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,560218,00.html">island of Lampedusa <NOBR>(more...)</NOBR></A>, lying just 113 kilometers (70 miles) off the Tunisia coast just south of Sicily. On Sunday, police took over 400 people into custody who were found in seven boats off the island. One day later, another 326 people were intercepted in another seven boats</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,561711,00.html">"If a solution isn't found soon, the island's center is going to explode," the island's deputy mayor</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,32763,00.html" href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,32763,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spiegel.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,32763,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spiegel.de/img/09EDF6DD-C520-4B4C-A893-F0145C2ACFFB" alt="The Vienna-based International Center on Migration Policy Development estimates that 100,000 to 120,000 migrants cross the Mediterranean by boat each year." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9Ng_3_3,00.html" href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9Ng_3_3,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spiegel.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9Ng_3_3,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spiegel.de/img/F3F2620A-3B41-4DC1-9E4D-61FDB8DF8C03" alt="Here, a group of would-be immigrants is watched over after having been detained for trying to jump the fence into Melilla in 2005." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9Nw_3_3,00.html" href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9Nw_3_3,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spiegel.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9Nw_3_3,00.html">Here, would-be immigrants hold on to fish nets after their boat capsized off Malta.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9Nw_3_3,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spiegel.de/img/02799A8E-2E18-4D8B-A28A-DA9DE9124DA1" alt="Other footholds are made further east in the Mediterranean at Malta and Lampedusa, an Italian island between Sicily and Tunisia. Here, would-be immigrants hold on to fish nets after their boat capsized off Malta." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9MTA_3,00.html" href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9MTA_3,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spiegel.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9MTA_3,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spiegel.de/img/D59A9919-C629-4F17-909F-8005D3CD77CF" alt="The numbers are astounding. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that, in 2007, almost 53,000 immigrants tried to reach Europe by ship through Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain. This ship full of 87 immigrants was located off Lampedusa." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9MTE_3,00.html" href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9MTE_3,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spiegel.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9MTE_3,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spiegel.de/img/39720A45-673F-457D-80E6-E913743626CF" alt="Lampedusa will soon become home to a monument to the would-be immigrants who have perished while making the journey. The monument will be in the shape of a giant open doorway and will be called "Porta di Lampedusa-Porta d'Europa" (Gateway to Lampedusa-Gateway to Europe)." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9MTE_3,00.html">Lampedusa will soon become home to a monument to the would-be immigrants who have perished while making the journey.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9MTE_3,00.html">The monument</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9MTE_3,00.html">be called</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MzI3NjMmbnI9MTE_3,00.html">Gateway to Lampedusa-Gateway to Europe</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/81FBFB5F-F448-4FD3-B705-F3540777C738/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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