A former JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) investment manager and an ex-Julius Baer banker were sentenced to a total of 11 years by a London court on Monday for defrauding a Libyan sovereign wealth fund out of millions of dollars, Reuters reported.
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The Tunisian coastguard said Sunday it had intercepted overnight more than 400 migrants trying to reach Europe by sea in 16 separate operations off the North African country’s coast.
Spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Ahmed Abu Zaid, announced the release of six Egyptians detained in Libya, where an armed group demanded paying sums of money for their release, prompting their families to appeal to the Egyptian authorities to intervene.
The White House has extended the national emergency declared in 2011 and expanded in 2016, with respect to Libya, to continue in effect beyond February 25, 2023.
Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu-Zeid announced on Friday that six Egyptian citizens held in western Libya have been released.
The Arab Parliament called on the Libyan parties “to return to dialogue and to set a clear and specific roadmap…
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced, in a statement on Monday evening, that Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will receive…
The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, stressed that the immigration file remains the main issue for Italy. She stressed the…
The Nigerian National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) received 1,003 Nigerians stranded in Niger Republic and Libya in 2022.
Five suspected migrant smugglers, including three Bangladeshi and two Sudanese nationals who reached Lampedusa, Italy on December 26, were arrested by police on aggravated charges of favoring illegal migration, criminal association, torture and kidnapping for extortion, judicial sources said Monday.