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| UpdatedAs the reality of US President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration hits, immigrants and their relatives grow anxious about what this means for their families
Topics: refugees, immigration, government-and-politics, world-politics, islam, community-and-society, human-interest, united-states, yemen, sudan, somalia, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, syrian-arab-republic, iraq, iran-islamic-republic-of
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Two Libyan men are arraigned in a Maltese court on charges relating to the hijacking of a domestic Libyan flight and having it diverted to Malta on Friday.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, malta, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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| UpdatedMelbourne lifesaver Simon Lewis spent Christmas Day on an asylum seeker rescue boat in the Mediterranean Sea, as rescuers predict calmer seas will encourage more people to make the risky journey to Europe.
Topics: refugees, surf-life-saving, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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| UpdatedAll passengers and crew are released from a hijacked plane in Malta after the hijackers surrender and are taken into custody, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, law-crime-and-justice, malta, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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A judge in Sicily convicts a ship captain and crew mate in last year's sinking off Libya that left 700 people dead in the Mediterranean's worst-known migrant disaster
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, immigration, refugees, italy, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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| UpdatedConflict, insurgency and vandalism are some of the reasons behind a new spate of ancient sites being reclassified by UNESCO as under threat.
Topics: history, unrest-conflict-and-war, syrian-arab-republic, mali, yemen, iraq, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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| UpdatedMore than 200 asylum seekers have drowned off the Libyan coast within 48 hours, the United Nation's migration agency said.
Topics: refugees, accidents---other, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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| UpdatedWhile this newborn does not know it yet, his arrival into the world came at just the right time — on board a migrant rescue boat in international waters.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, pregnancy-and-childbirth, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, italy
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Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, immigration, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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| UpdatedAbout 6,500 asylum seekers are rescued off the coast of Libya in a coordinated effort, the Italian coastguard says, in one of its busiest days of life-saving in recent years.
Topics: refugees, world-politics, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, italy
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Around 6,500 asylum seekers have been rescued off the coast of Libya in a coordinated effort, the Italian coastguard says, in one of its busiest days of life-saving in recent years.
Topics: refugees, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, italy
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Pro-government forces in Libya say they have seized control of the Islamic State (IS) group's headquarters in Sirte as they push to oust the jihadists from the coastal city.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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Relatives of two men killed in the 2012 attack on a US consulate in Libya file a lawsuit blaming the deaths on Hillary Clinton's "reckless" handling of classified information on her private email server.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, hacking, defence-and-national-security, united-states, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Antoun Issa from the Middle East Institute about the challenges facing Libya as the US answers a call for help with air strikes there.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, united-states
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| UpdatedUS warplanes launch a bombing campaign on Islamic State targets in Libya, responding to the UN-backed Government's request to help push the militants from their former stronghold in the city of Sirte.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, united-states
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The United States lifts the lid on one of the most controversial tactics of President Barack Obama's secretive counter-terror campaign, detailing for the first time the number killed in air strikes in countries like Pakistan and Libya.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, united-states, pakistan, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, somalia
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Republican politicians release a report on the deadly 2012 assault on the US mission in Benghazi, accusing then secretary of state Hillary Clinton of underestimating and then misrepresenting the extremist threat in Libya.
Topics: government-and-politics, defence-and-national-security, security-intelligence, unrest-conflict-and-war, united-states, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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An Eritrean dubbed "the general", suspected of controlling an asylum seeker trafficking network responsible for shipping thousands of people to Europe and sending some to a watery grave, is extradited to Italy.
Topics: refugees, human-trafficking, law-crime-and-justice, italy, eritrea, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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| UpdatedThe bodies of at least 104 asylum seekers are found washed up on a beach in the western Libyan town of Zwara, the navy reports, as hundreds more are believed to be missing off the coast of Greece after a boat capsized.
Topics: refugees, world-politics, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, greece, european-union
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| UpdatedAt least 700 migrants and refugees may have died at sea this past week in the busiest week of asylum seeker crossings from Libya towards Italy this year, Medecins San Frontieres and the UN Refugee agency say.
Topics: refugees, world-politics, european-union, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, italy
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Hundreds of asylum seekers have been thrown into Mediterranean as an overloaded boat capsizes off Libya.
Topics: refugees, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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| UpdatedDramatic images released by the Italian navy show the moment a heavily overcrowded boat overturned off the Libyan coast, leaving at least five people dead.
Topics: maritime, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, refugees, immigration, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, italy
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The Italian Coast Guard released video showing the rescue of 229 migrants travelling aboard a fishing vessel in the Strait of Sicily on May 23rd.
Topics: italy, european-union, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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| UpdatedSome 3,000 migrants have been saved off the Libyan coast in a single day in 23 separate rescue missions, the Italian coastguard says.
Topics: immigration, refugees, world-politics, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, italy, european-union, estonia
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Major powers, including the United States, agree to arm war-torn Libya's fledgling unity Government to fight the threat from Islamic State.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, world-politics, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, united-states, italy