A crammed boat carrying Europe-bound migrants capsized off Libya, killing at least eight people, while 58 others were still missing, the Libyan Red Crescent said Wednesday.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is preparing a trip to Libya next Saturday as part of her efforts to secure more oil and gas supplies from North Africa, according to multiple press reports.
The arraignment of a Libyan intelligence operative suspected of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 and killed 270 people was deferred on Wednesday due to delays and challenges securing a defense attorney.
The Italian government has rejected a request from a ship run by Doctors Without Borders non-governmental organization (NGO) to assign a safe port closer to the place where it rescued 73 migrants, an NGO official said on Sunday.
Italy will allow the Ocean Viking humanitarian ship to dock at an Italian port and disembark 113 people rescued from the waters of the Mediterranean, a French NGO said Tuesday.
The Ministry of Defense of the Interim Government of National Unity said that a delegation from it participated in the…
The German Ambassador to Libya, Michael Ohnmacht, announced a meeting with representatives of several German companies to prepare for the…
High-profile European politicians, including the EU’s former foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Italy’s current and former interior ministers and the current and former prime ministers of Malta, have been named as the subjects of a criminal complaint at the international criminal court alleging they conspired with Libya’s coastguard to illegally push back refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe, The Guardian reported.
The Libyan outgoing Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh held Wednesday in Tunis a bilateral meeting with the Tunisian Prime Minister, Najlaa Boudin, “to discuss bilateral relations and ways to take measures that enhance the common interest between the two countries,” according to Dbeibeh’s Media Office.
Refugee camps, similar to the ones in Turkey, could also be in Libya and other countries where migrants leave for European shores, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told the press on Sunday.