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‘Where are they?’: anguish grows among relatives of missing after Greek shipwreck

As family members arrive in Kalamata, search operation continues with negligible progress

The Guardian - UK

Greek shipwreck highlights divided Libya’s inability to stem flow of refugees

Absence of unified Libyan national government leaves Europe lacking effective allies to tackle people-smuggling trade

The Guardian - UK

As hundreds are missing in deadly Greek shipwreck – what are the deadly routes across the Mediterranean?

Sinking off the coast of Greece of boat en route from Libya to Italy once more draws attention to dangerous waters people routinely attempt to navigate in pursuit of a better life

The Independent UK

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Dozens are dead and hundreds feared missing from migrant ship sinking off Greece

Rescue workers transferred the bodies of dead migrants to refrigerated trucks as a major search continued Thursday for possible survivors of a sea disaster in southern Greece.

WEKU

Huge search seeks survivors of migrant boat sinking off Greece; hundreds feared missing

A huge search-and-rescue operation is under way off the coast of Greece after an overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants capsized and sank

The Independent UK

Gaddafi's right hand man claims Al Megrahi 'innocent and used as a scapegoat'

Gaddafi confidante Daad Sharab who visited Abdelbaset al-Megrahi three times in prison hopes his family may finally find “justice” after the arrest of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi

Daily Record

Colonel Gaddafi 'knew' Lockerbie bomber was innocent but made prison 'deal' for him

A confidante of Colonel Gaddafi, who was assassinated in 2011 by Libyan rebel forces, said he allowed the Lockerbie bomber to be jailed for the attack despite knowing of his innocence

Daily Mirror

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Why is Hannibal Gaddafi on hunger strike in a Lebanese prison?

The son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is protesting his eight-year-long detention without trial.

Al Jazeera

Lawyer: Health of Gadhafi's son, detained in Lebanon, deteriorating 3 days into hunger strike

The lawyer of a son of Libya’s late leader Moammar Gadhafi says his client's health is deteriorating three days into a hunger strike in his prison cell in Lebanon

The Independent UK

Libya political leaders to meet on electoral laws

Libyan leaders were due to meet in Morocco on Monday to finalise a deal on new electoral laws, but any agreement they announce on voting rules or a new interim government is likely to trigger opposition that may further delay the political process.

Reuters

Eastern Libya forces stage mass deportation of Egyptian migrants

Eastern Libyan forces have expelled thousands of Egyptians who were in Libya illegally in recent days, deporting them to Egypt on foot across the land border, an Egyptian security source and an eastern Libyan security source said.

Reuters

The EU pays Africa’s brutal militias to lock up migrants. Britain wants to follow suit

Torture, rape and death are the results of a policy to keep desperate people away from Europe

The Guardian - UK

Gadhafi's son goes on hunger strike in Lebanon to protest detention without trial

A son of Libya’s late leader Moammar Gadhafi, who has been held in Lebanon for more than seven years, has started a hunger strike to protest his detention without trial

The Independent UK

Libya's Tripoli government targets more western towns with drone strikes

Libya's Government of National Unity (GNU) stepped up drone strikes on Friday against what it said were smuggling gangs in western regions, attacking targets in Zawia, Zuwara, Ajeelat and Maya.

Reuters

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The Hindu

9 Indians freed in Libya after intervention by Indian school principal

Nine Indian nationals, held captive in Libya, have been freed by their captors, with the help of Tabassum Mansoor, the principal of the Indian school in Benghazi

The Independent UK

Libya sentences 23 Isis fighters to death

‘As lawyers for the victims’ families, we see the verdict of the court as very satisfying and very just’

Reuters

Libya court sentences 23 to death for Islamic State campaign

A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in a deadly Islamic State militant campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015.

Al Jazeera

Libya court sentences 23 to death for ISIL campaign

Appeals court sentences 14 others to life in prison for campaign including the beheading of Egyptian Christians in 2015.

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The Independent UK

Rescue groups say Malta coordinated the return of 500 migrants to Libya instead of saving them

Rescue groups are accusing the European island nation of Malta of coordinating the return of around 500 people to Libya where they were subsequently imprisoned, in violation of international maritime law

The New Daily

‘Lost at sea’ asylum seekers found and towed back to Libya

Nearly 500 migrants who tried to cross the central Mediterranean have been brought back to Libya, according to a UN spokesman

The New Daily

Boat carrying 500 migrants disappears off Libya

A boat carrying about 500 migrants, including a newborn baby and pregnant women, has disappeared in the central Mediterranean.

Reuters

Libya govt says it conducted air strikes in western areas

Libya's Government of National Unity (GNU) said it had conducted air strikes against smuggling networks on Thursday, with blasts hitting a western city that is home to armed factions that have backed a rival administration.

The Conversation

Sudan's peace mediation should be led by the African Union: 3 reasons why

Questions about who mediates in a conflict – and when – are crucial. Mediation is about trust, an awareness of regional realities and insights into complex politics. It should happen before conflict reaches a mutually damaging stalemate. This spares lives and political disintegration of the kind seen in Libya and…

Al Jazeera

Freezing the RSF’s bank assets won’t stop it in Sudan: Analysts

The army wants to squash Hemedti and the RSF’s independence – but the RSF is safeguarded by multiple revenue sources.

Al Jazeera

Libya parliament suspends rival eastern-based PM Bashagha

Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha suspended by parliament and his duties handed over to his finance minister.

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