At Least 77 Migrants Drowned Today

One of the deadliest shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean claimed the lives of at least 77 migrants after a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria’s coast. With its own citizens joining Syrian and Palestinian refugees in clamoring to leave their homelands, Lebanon, which has been ravaged by a financial crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the worst in modern times, has become a launchpad for illegal migration. The small boat …

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