Italy's interior minister said on Tuesday he saw light at the end of the tunnel for curbing migrant flows from Libya after a slowdown in arrivals across the Mediterranean in recent months.
News ID: 75757 Publish Date : 2017/08/21
More than 30 migrants, mostly toddlers, drowned on Wednesday when about 200 people without life jackets fell from a boat into the sea off the Libya n coast before they could be hauled into waiting rescue boats.
News ID: 74120 Publish Date : 2017/05/25
Rescuers saved 484 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Saturday and found the bodies of seven men who had died in the attempt to get to Europe, Italy's coastguard said.
News ID: 73946 Publish Date : 2017/05/15
Libya n naval forces captured two vessels suspected of smuggling oil from the North African country after gun battles lasting several hours west of the capital Tripoli, a spokesman for the service said on Friday.
News ID: 73662 Publish Date : 2017/04/29
Libya n naval forces have rescued 115 illegal migrants after their overloaded rubber boat sank off the coastline, and 25 more were still missing, a spokesman said on Friday.
News ID: 72783 Publish Date : 2017/03/05
The bodies of at least 74 migrants have been found washed up on the shore in western Libya after the engine of their inflatable boat was stolen, coastguard and aid officials said on Tuesday.
News ID: 72552 Publish Date : 2017/02/22
The Malta-flagged oil tanker Seadelta has departed Libya ’s port of Ras Lanuf carrying 781,000 barrels of crude oil as exports at the port resumed for the first time since 2014, Bloomberg cited sources close to the matter.
News ID: 69069 Publish Date : 2016/09/23
In the Mediterranean Sea:
Nearly 1,000 migrants were saved in six separate rescue operations in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, while four were found dead below the deck of their boat, Italy's coast guard said.
News ID: 66450 Publish Date : 2016/07/13