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A human disaster is currently happening in the Mediterranean Sea where more than 10,000 migrants have been picked up as they attempted to enter Europe from Libya. The International Organization for Migration estimates that nearly 1,830 migrants have died on the sea route this year compared to 207 in the same period last year.

Traffickers started taking advantage of the breakdown of authority in Libya to pack boats with paying migrants willing to cross the sea for a better life.

And the European operation against piracy in the Indian Ocean (EUNAVFOR Atalanta) has become a reference for possible maritime operation in the Mediterranean against those traffickers.

EUNAVFOR: an operation meant to fight piracy

Operation Atalanta, as of June 2015. Along with AoR.

Created in 2008 as an operation to protect merchant ships again pirate attacks, mainly in the Gulf of Aden an particularly in the IRTC (International Recommended Transit Corridor) put in place to make sure vessels from the World Food Programme would reach the populations in need, Atalanta has become much more than a simple EU joint operation.

If the destruction of ships was not part of the original objectives of Atalanta, its actions soon grew offensive: in spring 2010, 18 months after its start, Atalanta adopted methods allowing it to disrupt both “pirate bases”

Article source: http://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/eunavfor-switching-from-pirates-to-migrants/

• Gabriel Nderitu was making a sixth attempt to get invention off the ground
• Plane roared up a make-shift ramp – only to nosedive over the other side
• The 48-year-old, from Othaya, Kenya, has vowed to make further attempts

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Julian Robinson for MailOnline

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11:21 EST, 24 June 2015

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Updated:
14:48 EST, 24 June 2015

Article source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3137730/Kenyan-unveils-home-plane-crowds-TV-crew-does-not-end-well.html

In this week’s 3D printing news, we have stories about 3D printable icons, like Batman and Elvis, and a chance to win a MakerBot Replicator 2 just for buying tickets to the new film Terminator: Genisys through Fandango. The aerospace industry is getting a major 3D printing boost from Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator 757 airplane project, and the UK’s Business Minister recently announced a multi-million dollar competition to create cutting edge new additive manufacturing designs for the aerospace industry. MyMiniFactory is also sponsoring a design competition using MeshMixer, and 3D Hubs and Proto-pasta have joined forces to offer new filament workshops in three cities. Finally, a dedicated animal rights activist has made it easy to make a statement against meat products in the grocery store aisle. His design is a mini 3D printed headstone that can be placed on individual meat packets in your grocery store meat section!

3D Printed Mini Headstones for Animal Rights’ Activists

An animal rights activist is using 3D printing to warn consumers that they are about to buy an ethically questionable product. Aldric Négrier has made available an Instructable about how to 3D print mini headstone symbols that can placed at one of the source of the meat industry’s profits: where consumers purchase meat in your local grocery store. This strategy reminds me of activist stickers that can be placed almost anywhere, stating the activism cause. But stickers don’t quite pack the same punch as a mini-gravestone, do they? Négrier intends these markers to

Article source: http://3dprint.com/76351/stories-we-missed-june-27/