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From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

Early this week, a ship carrying some 850 people collided with a Portuguese rescue ship 60 miles off the coast of Libya and capsized.

They were refugees from Tunisia, Nigeria, Somalia, Bangladesh, Egypt, and elsewhere,

fleeing persecution, poverty, and especially war.

Of those on board, only 28 survived.

Add that grim toll to the 400 drowned last week in very similar circumstances, and the number of refugees who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean is an

estimated 1,750 so far only this year, 30 times more than a year ago. And in the rapidly escalating crisis,

the eyes of the world have turned to the leaders of the European Union. Now, it is spurring

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