A group of Ugandan mothers are urging the president not to sign into law a new draft under which people who are revealed as being gay could be sent to prison. More here:
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Image caption: There has been a spike in attempted sea crossings to Italy by undocumented migrants over the past weeks State news agency TAP cited the regional director of health, Hatem Cherif, as saying that the morgue of Habib Bourguiba University Hospital in the provincial capital had received 42 bodies of migrants - noting that the morgue could only handle 35 bodies.
Last week, the morgue had received 70 bodies, Mr Cherif was quoted as saying, warning that with summer approaching, the pace of illegal migration attempts by sea would accelerate and the decomposition of bodies would be faster due to rising temperatures.
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