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UN envoy urges Libyan rival parties to bridge 'outstanding issues'
Updated : 4 days, 4 hours ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], June 20 (ANI/Xinhua): The UN Libya advisor urged the rival factions in Libya to meet within 10 days at an agreed-upon location to bridge "outstanding issues" as their final round of negotiations ended in Cairo with no breakthrough on Monday.
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Tunisia arrests 72 Italy-bound illegal immigrants off coast
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Tunis [Tunisia], June 15 (ANI/Xinhua): Tunisia arrested 72 migrants who attempted to cross the Mediterranean to enter Italy illegally, the Tunisian Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.
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UN voices concern about clashes in Libya's Tripoli
Updated : 1 week, 6 days ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], June 11 (ANI/Xinhua): The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Saturday expressed concern about clashes that erupted in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday night between armed groups.
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Clashes erupt between armed groups in Libya's Sabratah
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], May 14 (ANI/Sputnik): Clashes between armed groups have erupted in the northwestern Libyan coastal city of Sabratah, media reported.
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UNHCR welcomes release of illegal migrants from detention in Libya
Updated : 1 month, 4 weeks ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], April 26 (ANI/Xinhua): The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) welcomed the release of 35 illegal migrants from a detention centre in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
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6 dead, 29 missing after boat capsized off Libyan coast: IOM
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], April 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Six bodies have been found and 29 others remained missing after a wooden boat carrying 35 illegal migrants capsized off the country's western coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Saturday.
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UN official stresses priority to hold general elections in Libya
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], April 9 (ANI/Xinhua): Stephanie Williams, the adviser to the UN secretary-general for Libya, on Friday stressed the UN priority to hold general elections in the country as soon as possible.
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Over 90 migrants killed in Mediterranean boat accident: UN
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 4 (ANI/Sputnik): Nearly 100 migrants died in the Mediterranean waters after the boat carrying them from Libya got shipwrecked, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said.
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60,000 illegal immigrants voluntarily deported from Libya since 2015: IOM
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], April 1 (ANI/Xinhua): A total of 60,000 illegal immigrants have been voluntarily deported from Libya to their countries of origin since 2015, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement on Friday.
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Pentagon has forgotten how NATO bombed Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya: Russian Am
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 23 (ANI/Sputnik): Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said the Pentagon has already forgotten how US and NATO planes bombed the cities of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya.
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India at UNSC calls for elections in Libya at earliest, hopes political is
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
New York [US], March 16 (ANI): At the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) briefing on the situation in Libya, R. Madhu Sudan, Counsellor at Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations reiterated the imperative for holding the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in the North Afri
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UN chief voices concern over political polarization in Libya
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New York [US], March 6 (ANI/Xinhua): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held a telephone call on Friday with Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity of Libya to discuss the latest developments in the country, Guterres' press office said on Saturday.
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