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The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) is asking Washington to help it recover tens of billions of dollars in state assets that it alleges were stolen by the country’s former dictator Moammar Gaddafi and his cronies and stashed around the world, Wall Street Journal reported.

The civil rescue ship Humanity 1 operated by the non-governmental organization SOS Humanity was navigating to the Emilia Romagna port city of Ravenna on Thursday after rescuing 69 migrants and refugees from a small rubber dinghy adrift in the central Mediterranean off the coast of Libya on Wednesday night.