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A human rights organisation yesterday called on the Tunisian government to intervene urgently to help dozens of migrants who were expelled from the city of Sfax, in the southeast of...
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Italy will lift its air embargo on Libya in September, the head of the Tripoli-based government Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh said yesterday, Anadolu news agency reported. "The Italian government informed us of...
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At least 10 Tunisian migrants were missing and one died after their boat sank off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a judicial official said...
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Pope Francis said on Saturday that it was a "shame" that irregular migrants trying to reach Europe for a safe and better life were dying at sea, reports Anadolu...
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Tunisia is under pressure from Europe to stop large numbers of migrants departing from its coasts.
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Since Matloob Hussain from Pakistan went missing during a deadly shipwreck off Greece last month, his brother, Adil, has left the door of his Athens home open in the...
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EU lawmakers today urged Greece and the European Commission to launch an international and independent probe into last month's deadly migrant boat shipwreck off the coast of Greece. The European Parliament's...
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Tunisia has removed hundreds of sub-Saharan African migrants to a desolate area along the border with Libya, a local rights group and a lawmaker said on Wednesday, with witnesses...
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Pakistan's top judge called last month's sinking of a migrant boat off Greece, in which hundreds of Pakistanis reportedly died, a "human rights issue", Anadolu Agency reports. Hearing a...
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Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world's biggest oil exporters, yesterday deepened oil cuts, sending prices higher despite concerns over a global economic slowdown and possible further interest rate increases...
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Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the strong man of eastern Libya, yesterday confirmed that his forces will be given a deadline, no later than the end of August, for the fair distribution of the...
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Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has been moved from a Lebanese prison to hospital in "critical condition", Dubai-based Al-Hadath TV reported on Sunday, Reuters reports. Gaddafi went on hunger strike last month in...
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July 2, 2023
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London-based Italian artist Alessandra Ferrini deepens the conversation around colonial and recent Libyan history, creating work about the manipulation of information, colonial memory, trauma and reparations
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Survivors of a boat disaster that likely killed hundreds of migrants near Greece have given accounts of traffickers in North Africa cramming them into a clapped-out fishing trawler. They...
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Tension between the rival governments in Libya is on the rise amid new disputes over oil revenues and a drone strike on Wagner facilities Friday, Energy Voice reports. According...
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On 30 August 2008, Italy and Libya signed their Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership, ending their awkward past of feuding and diplomatic tensions over Italy's colonisation of Libya...
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In February 2023, the Italian parliament passed a government decree establishing a code of conduct for NGO rescue ships, limiting their rescue operations in an effort to deter illegal immigration to Italy and limit it.
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The head of Libya's east-based administration threatened, Saturday, to block oil and gas exports from territory under its control, claiming the UN-recognised government in Tripoli was wasting energy revenues, Reuters reports. According to...
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A son of late Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has been treated in hospital in Lebanon after going on hunger strike two weeks ago in protest at his incarceration without...
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European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, stated that last week's migrant boat tragedy off the Greek coast could be the "worst" in the Mediterranean. She made the statement...
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The United Nations envoy, Abdoulaye Bathily's top priority in Libya is to lead the country to concurrent presidential and legislative elections before the end of this year. He is...
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Nine men charged over the worst shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea this year that killed at least 82 people were detained pending trial, the coastguard said on Wednesday, while...
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What is it that drives Egyptians to migrate across the sea? "Young people need to live and eat, or else they'll leave you and flee across the sea," President...
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Pakistan observed a day of mourning for more than 300 Pakistanis presumed dead after an overcrowded fishing vessel carrying refugees sank off the coast of Greece. At least 78 bodies...
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The United Nations envoy to Libya said, on Monday, that proposed electoral laws agreed upon by a committee of two legislative bodies this month are "not sufficient to resolve...
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Nine Egyptians have been arrested and accused of taking part in the smuggling of migrants after a boat capsized off the coast of Greece, killing 79 people last week. The...
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Spanish charity Open Arms said it rescued 117 migrants on Saturday crowded onto a precarious wooden boat from Libya in the latest such perilous crossing over the Mediterranean sea,...
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A Syrian teenager, who survived a shipwreck that killed at least 78 people, was emotionally reunited with his elder brother on Friday, but there was no news for other...
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As Greece confronts its worst sea disaster in years, questions are mounting about how potentially hundreds of migrants drowned even as their vessel was being shadowed by the Greek coastguard,...
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June 15, 2023
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Turkiye is a middle power, and the transformation of the international system from the US-led unipolarity to a multi-actor centric multipolarity over the last decade is in its national...
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Kuwait has concluded a contract worth $367 million with Turkish defence firm, Baykar, to buy its TB2 drones through direct negotiations between the two governments, the Kuwaiti army said...
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The United Nations mission in Libya said, on Monday, it was concerned by the arbitrary arrest of migrants and asylum seekers in the country, accompanied by what it called...