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- Reuters
A year after Greece migrant boat tragedy, answers and justice still out of reach
Egyptian electrician Mahmoud Shalabi was the only person from his hometown to survive when a fishing trawler crammed with migrants capsized off Greece a year ago, killing hundreds in one of the deadliest recorded boat disasters in the Mediterranean. Sixteen friends from Shalabi's neighborhood outside Cairo were never found. "No one is accepting that they might be dead," said Shalabi in an interview in Athens, where the 23-year-old is doing odd jobs while his asylum application is processed.
- Portland Press Herald, Maine
Maine interlibrary loan system on hold for weeks because of contract dispute
Jun. 6—On any given day, the Scarborough Public Library receives up to a dozen crates packed full of books borrowed from other libraries across the state and sends out nearly as many. Over the course of a year, nearly 60,000 books come and go from the town library through the statewide interlibrary loan program, which allows patrons to borrow books from other libraries at no cost. But that ...
- TheBlast
Princess Catherine ‘Better’
After it was revealed the royal mother-of-three is undergoing preventative cancer treatment, Prince William has said his wife Princess Catherine is “better” and “would have loved” to have been with him at this year’s D-Day commemorations.
