A rescue ship funded by British street artist Banksy was seized in Lampedusa on Sunday after Italy’s coast guard said the boat had disobeyed its instructions to head to Sicily after carrying out a migrant rescue operation.
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Russian Ambassador to Libya Aydar Aganin is heading off for Tripoli where the Russian diplomatic mission will be restored to full capacity, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told TASS on Monday.
Despite treacherous conditions at sea, record numbers of migrants are setting off from North Africa to reach the European Union. This weekend alone, nearly 5,600 people arrived on Italy’s southern coasts, reported InfoMigrant website.
European Union backing for Libyan authorities who stop and detain migrants means the bloc has “aided and abetted” rights violations against migrants, an investigator for a U.N. mission said on Monday.
The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, arrived Sunday in the UAE, according to the Syrian and Emirati news agencies. According to…
The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, begins on Sunday a two-day visit to Algeria.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has praised Italy’s response to Europe’s irregular migration crisis in a letter to…
The Italian coast guard has recovered 43 bodies after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas on Sunday off the southern coast of Italy’s mainland, RAI state radio reported.
U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said Tuesday it is important to get to elections in Libya “as quickly as reasonably possible to have a government that has the legitimacy of having been selected by the people.”
As Europe resorts to desperate measures to contain a growing immigration crisis, the UN has condemned a move by Italy to enact stringent laws against NGOs and humanitarian groups involved in search and rescue (SAR) missions in the central Mediterranean.