Sentences with phrase «prevents migrant boats»

The issues at hand are so - called «pullback» practices in which the Libyan coastguard — funded, trained, and equipped by the Italian authorities under an agreement signed in February 2017 — prevents migrant boats from heading to Europe's safe shores.

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In his traditional Christmas message, Pope Francis on Sunday urged Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus by thinking about the plight of today's children, bemoaning how some must escape bombs or flee in migrant boats and how others are prevented from being born at all.
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