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Search and rescue personnel carry a body bag containing remains of a passenger from Lion Air Flight 610 at the Tanjung Priok port on October 30th, 2018, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Rescuers have recovered bodies, body parts, and personal items in the wreckage, with all 189 passengers and crew feared dead. The flight, traveling from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang, crashed in the Java Sea Monday morning, shortly after takeoff.

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Viewfinder: Bodies Are Pulled From an Indonesian Plane Crash

Search and rescue personnel carry a body bag containing remains of a passenger from Lion Air Flight 610 at the Tanjung Priok port on October 30th, 2018, in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Pacific Standard Staff

Asylum seekers from Africa disembark a Libyan coast guard boat as they arrive at a naval base in Tripoli after being rescued in the Mediterranean Sea on August 28th, 2017.

Social Justice

Libya’s Slave Trade Didn’t Appear Out of Thin Air

It's a result of European immigration policy—and of pervasive anti-blackness in the MENA region.

Rahawa Haile