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The European Union (EU) defended on Tuesday its record of helping to relieve the suffering of immigrants in Libya, after UN-backed investigators accused the EU of abetting human rights abuses and other crimes in the country.
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Algerian police announced Wednesday the dismantling of an international network that works in smuggling illegal immigrants to Europe from Syria and Lebanon, passing through Benghazi in eastern Libya.
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The Italian Ministry of the Interior revealed statistics showing that Libya ranks second after Tunisia in the number of boats of illegal immigrants sailing to Italy, Italian Nova News Agency has reported.
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A boat carrying over 40 migrants has capsized off the Libyan coast while a cargo ship was trying to save them, Italy's coast guard confirmed on Sunday.
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The Minister of Interior of the Government of National Unity, Emad Trabelsi, has supervised, with his Italian counterpart, Matteo Piantedosi, the “launch of the work of an Italian-Libyan task force on security and migration, whi
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The Libyan Red Crescent has urged the authorities to take action to limit illegal immigration that is sweeping the country.
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has stated that in the period of Feb 5 to 11, 400 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya.
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The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has detected more than 13,000 cases of illegal border crossings at the external borders of the European Union in January.
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