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Migrants rescued by a ship chartered by NGOs disembark in Sicily and are taken care of by the authorities. The Ocean Viking, chartered by SOS Méditerranée in partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), rescued 114 people on December 16, including minors and two newborns who were on an inflatable boat in distress in international waters off the coast of Libya. IMAGES
Tear gas and warning shots are fired as migrants stand behind fences at the border between Turkey and Greece. IMAGES
Black smoke rises into the sky beside the court building where Ousmane Sonko is standing trial for defamation. Police are on standby outside the court after Sonko held an authorised rally the day before, where he urged thousands of supporters to come en masse to back him on the day of the trial. Ousmane Sonko is being tried for allegedly defaming a minister, a case that could determine whether he will be eligible to run in presidential elections next February. Sonko's supporters say President Macky Sall is using the judiciary as a means to sideline him for the vote, a charge Sall denies. IMAGES
Residents of Crotone, religious leaders and authorities pay their respects in front of the coffins of 65 victims, five of them small and white, containing the bodies of the youngest children that died, of a devastating migrant shipwreck off Italy's southern coast. IMAGES
Border force staff go about their days and boats navigate in and out at the port of Dover after at least four people died when a small boat apparently packed with migrants capsized in freezing temperatures in the Channel overnight, according to the UK government. Dozens of others were plucked from the waters of one of the world's busiest shipping lanes in a large-scale rescue operation involving UK and French emergency services. IMAGES
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