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00:00As rescue operations continue across the Mediterranean, a cruise ship finds dozens of migrants off the coast of Spain.
00:14A luxury cruise ship rescued 68 migrants adrift off the Spanish Canary Islands.
00:20The insignia, owned by Oceana Cruises, provided aid and recovered three bodies, but could not retrieve two due to poor weather.
00:27One critically ill migrant died before evacuation.
00:32On Thursday, the Italian Coast Guard recovered 12 more bodies from a shipwreck in the Ionian Sea.
00:38The boat, carrying 75 people from Iran, Syria and Iraq, capsized after its motor caught fire.
00:44So far, 20 bodies have been found, with dozens still missing.
00:49A video from NGO Sea-Watch has shown Libyan Coast Guards hitting migrants rescued by a merchant ship.
00:56The footage raises concerns about the treatment of migrants and the EU's role in funding the Libyan Coast Guard.
01:02Despite ongoing rescues, the Mediterranean remains perilous, with over 5,000 migrant deaths recorded between January and May of this year.
01:13Barcelona City Council has announced plans to scrap 10,000 tourist flat licences in a bid to address the city's acute housing crisis.
01:23The city's mayor described the move as a turning point in tackling the local problem that's felt in all of Europe's major tourist destinations.
01:45Under the new plan, landlords have five years to convert their licences and sell or rent their properties.
01:52But proponents of Airbnb and other short-term tourism rental platforms warn that the radical plan will impact jobs and negatively hit the city.
02:01According to council data, the price of renting in the Catalan capital has risen by 68% in 10 years, while buying and selling has increased by only 38%.
02:13An hour's-long power outage hit the Balkans on Friday, plunging the region into darkness.
02:20It comes off the back of an early June heatwave that saw temperatures climb to a sizzling 40 degrees.
02:27Croatian officials blamed faulty energy infrastructure between Greece and Albania for the blackouts.
02:33I wouldn't like information to be leaked.
02:37Preliminarily, that there was a power outage between Greece and Albania and that the currents had changed,
02:44but that's still a matter of investigation and unverified information.
03:03Simply, it's not possible and it's not necessary for the power to be turned on for one reason,
03:10simply because it was a big attack on the distribution network.
03:14So I have to be careful and I ask the citizens to be patient.
03:17These are emergency situations that are common, that happen not so often, of course, in the power grid, but something that cannot be ruled out.
03:33Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Albania have shared interconnected power grids since 1990.
03:44Argentine President Javier Mele visited the Spanish capital on Friday without seeing senior Spanish officials.
03:52The far-right leader's Madrid arrival was met with public support and protest and has inflamed tensions between the two countries.
04:01Last month, Mele met Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's fiercest critics at a rally for the hard-right anti-immigrant Vox party.
04:10Mele also accused the Prime Minister's wife of corruption, an accusation she has denied.
04:20The mayor of the Italian island of Capri has banned tourists after a faulty pipe deprived some of the city of water.
04:28Mayor Paolo Falco said essential services would not be guaranteed to the thousands of tourists visiting Capri daily,
04:36forcing him to temporarily ban ferry ticket sales on Saturday.
04:40A failure in the mainland's water system led to the crisis.
04:44Tankers are expected to reach the Bay of Naples island soon and deliver households 25 litres of water each.