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The migrants had been stranded on the Danish tanker Maersk Etienne for over a month, with both Italy and Malta refusing to accept them.

One problem that he says it left unresolved "was the fate of Hamas fighters stranded in the areas of Gaza held by Israel when the ceasefire went into effect".

In the Pakistani town of Torkham, a normally busy crossing point into the Afghan province of Nangarhar, stranded drivers bought tea from a vendor as they waited in colourful trucks.

Last week, the Alarm Phone charity, which runs a hotline for migrants stranded in the Mediterranean, reported a fatal shooting at a boat it said was carrying 113 migrants southeast of Malta.

He stranded the two runners he inherited in the first with back-to-back strikeouts.