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The German humanitarian group Sea-Watch says it has rescued 121 migrants off Libya in two missions in the past 24 hours.

It has tweeted photos of the missions, saying 11 women and a baby were among those rescued on Friday morning:

Sea-Watch said it spotted the first group on Thursday evening within a day of returning to the rescue zone in the Mediterranean.

Another European group, SOS Mediterranee, says its vessel, Ocean Viking, has picked up 236 migrants in the zone over the past few days.

In a recent tweet, it said survivors spoke of being beaten to make them board flimsy rubber boats as they were worried by the sea conditions.

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The bodies of three men killed after being ambushed in Burkina Faso on Monday have arrived in Spain.

The two Spanish journalists and an Irish conservationist were filming with an anti-poaching patrol when it was attacked by a heavily armed gang.

An Islamist group has since said it was behind the attack.

Speaking at the Torrejón Air Base where the coffins arrived, Spain's Defence Minister Margarita Robles said that the fight against terrorism would not stop and Spain and its partners would be relentless about it.

Twenty-four soldiers acted as pallbearers.

The Spanish government is to award its highest honour to the two journalists, David Beriain and Roberto Fraile.

The Irish victim, Rory Young, set up the Chengeta Wildlife Foundation around nine years ago to train rangers to tackle poaching in conflict regions in Africa, partly through policing and partly through developing economic alternatives.

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Portugal lifts lockdown restrictions imposed in January at midnight on all but eight municipalities, after seeing infection rates fall to the lowest level in the European Union. The border with Spain will reopen for essential travel after several months, sport will be allowed without spectators and from tomorrow restaurants can stay open until 22:30.

France begins its four-phase reopening from Monday, President Emmanuel Macron has told local newspapers. From Monday you can travel without restriction beyond the 10km (6 mile) current limit. Then from 19 May museums, cinemas and theatres will reopen and people can eat outdoors. On 9 June you can eat indoors, sport resumes outdoors with a health pass, the curfew is put back to 23:00, and foreign visitors can return with a health pass. The remainder of restrictions are set to be lifted on 30 June.

Ireland is also bringing in a phased reopening over six weeks from 10 May, when hairdressers and click-and-collect shopping can resume. Travel will be allowed outside your own county for the first time since Christmas and up to 50 people will be allowed at weddings and funerals.

Ukraine is barring entry to foreign nationals travelling from India from midnight tomorrow. It has recorded another 10,000 infections in 24 hours.

The Dutch government has decided to allow 3,500 people in to watch all the rehearsals of the Eurovision Song Contest next month as well as all three TV shows. That’s 20% capacity of the Ahoy arena in Rotterdam, but tickets will only be available with a negative test and a face mask for people who bought them for last year’s cancelled contest. The big days are the semi-finals on 18 and 20 May and the final on 22 May.

A hospital in the Romanian capital Bucharest is organising a vaccination marathon for four days from next Thursday for anyone without an appointment. The western city of Timisoara held one last week and vaccinated 6,700 people.