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The bodies of three sisters aged 9, 12, and 17, from Sudan, were disembarked on Lampedusa on Saturday, along with 68 migrants rescued by a Franco-Italian-German-Swiss migrant rescue NGO ship off the coast of Libya.

Italy’s flag carrier, ITA Airways, resumed direct flights to Libya’s capital, Tripoli, on Sunday, being the first airline from a major West European nation to do so after a 10-year hiatus due to civil war in the North African country, the company and Tripoli’s transport minister said.