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‘They are Humans’: Albania Memorializes Dramatic Exodus to Italy

This wasn't the first mass escape from Albania. A few months before, on March 6, 1991, several thousand more Albanians reached Italy after seizing cargo ships in the ports.

A year earlier, on July 1990, some 5,000 others took refuge in foreign embassies in the capital, Tirana. Thousands more crossed the land border to Greece.

Palinuro | Cephalonia | September 7-9

The Palinuro, a three-masted, iron-hulled barquentine that serves as a sail training vessel for the Italian Navy, will be anchored at the Ionian island of Cephalonia's port of Argostoli from September 7 to 9. The public will be able to board the historic vessel for guided tours on Friday between 4 and 7 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon and Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon and 4 to 6 p.m.

Italy sends frigate to Cyprus's EEZ

Italy will send a frigate to the area off Cyprus island where Turkish military has been obstructing a vessel exploring for natural gas, according to a report in Italy's Republica online edition.

According to the report, the vessel, the Maestrale-class frigate Euro (F575) of the Italian Navy, is taking part in NATO's Sea Guardian maritime operation in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Italian Navy training ship docks in Piraeus

The Italian Navy's sail training vessel Palinuro is seen arriving at the port of Piraeus on Saturday. The schooner, on which cadets from the Italian Navy CPO School in Taranto, southern Italy, are currently undergoing training, will remain moored in Piraeus until Tuesday. Members of the public will be able to go aboard the vessel from 10 a.m. to noon and from 4 to 6 p.m. on Monday.

Italy rescues more than 1500 migrants

Italian coast guard said 1,569 migrants had been rescued in 11 separate operations in the Strait of Sicily, since the number of boats departing from the Libyan coast has been rising.

The “Diciotti” vessel rescued four inflatable dinghies and a boat, bringing a total of 774 people to safety, including 125 women and five children, the coast guard said in a statement.

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