In the Mediterranean, Doctors Without Borders says it rescued 440 migrants after responding to a distress call in rough seas off the coast of Malta on Tuesday. The passengers were from Syria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Somalia and Sri Lanka, 30 of them children. Meanwhile, rights groups are condemning the U.K. government’s latest anti-migrant move, after it rented a massive barge where it says 500 asylum seekers can be housed while they wait for their cases to proceed. This is British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak: “We’re bringing forward alternative sites, like, indeed, the barge that we’ve announced today, that will save us money and indeed reduce pressure on hotels, all part of our plan to stop the boats. We’re also putting through Parliament a new law which will ensure that if you arrive here illegally, you will not have the ability to stay. We will be able to detain you and then swiftly remove you to your own country, if it’s safe, or a third alternative, third country alternative, like Rwanda.”

Amnesty International UK slammed the plan as “ministerial cruelty.”