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Ireland will deploy a single Naval Service patrol vessel to Operation IRINI for a period of 46 days during June and July this year in order to help enforce a UN arms embargo on Libya, which was introduced in 2020 to preserve peace in the country after the end of the second Libyan civil war.

The Libyan Coast Guard has recovered the bodies of three migrants who drowned off the country’s coast after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, according to a statement by the Interior Ministry  of the Government of National Unity on Thursday.

A rubber boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants sank off the coast of Libya and at least 55 people drowned, including women and children, the UN migration agency said Wednesday. It was the latest tragedy in this part of the Mediterranean Sea, a key route for migrants.