Portugal raises $2.

3 billion despite bailout fears

Italy moves African migrants to mainland from

Lampedusa
So many migrants fled to Lampedusa that it caused a humanitarian crisis

Italy has transferred 1,716 North African migrants - most of them Tunisian - to a
temporary camp site in its south-eastern Puglia region.

The migrants arrived by ship on Thursday from Lampedusa, a tiny island packed with thousands
fleeing poverty and unrest in Tunisia.

A "tent city" has been set up to accommodate them in Manduria, a town in the southern heel of
Italy.

Overcrowding has created unhygienic conditions on Lampedusa, officials say.

Italy's Il Giornale newspaper says Rome is planning to repatriate 100 Tunisians every day.
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smuggling

A protester lights a candle during a vigil appealing to the Chinese government to stop the execution of three Filipinos and commute their
death sentences on humanitarian grounds in Quezon City, the Phlilippines, on March 24.

Yemenis hold largest protest yet against leader

By AHMED AL HAJ 
Associated Press

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis packed a square in

the capital and marched in villages and cities across the nation on Friday in what
appeared to be the largest demonstrations in more than a month of demands the
country's longtime ruler step down.
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