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Dozens missing as boat capsizes off coast of Libya

Dozens of migrants are missing in the coast off Libya. Their boat capsized about 31 kilometres from the capital Tripoli. While 41 people have been rescued, 170 are thought to still be missing in the Mediterranean Sea since Friday.

03/07/2018

World News

Salvini pitches migrant centres in North Africa

Italian Interior Minister says he wants to set up centres to the south of Libya intercept migrant before they can make it to the coast, cutting them off at their source.

25/06/2018

World News

Rescued migrants remained stranded at sea

Malta and Italy, the nearest EU coastal states, have refused the rescue ships permission to dock.

25/06/2018

World News

Exclusive report aboard rescue vessel barred from docking in Italy

629 people rescued mainly from Libyan waters remain stranded on a vessel about halfway between Malta and Italy after Italy's new interior minister barred them from entry. Our correspondent Anelise Borges, who has been on the boat over the last week has this exclusive report.

11/06/2018

France

Libya's rival leaders agree to hold elections in December

The breakthrough came at an international conference in Paris

29/05/2018

France

Libyan leaders arrive in Paris for talks to restore order in the count

The rival factions are hoping to agree on a political roadmap, including elections

29/05/2018

United Kingdom

Britain apologises for appalling treatment of Libyan dissident & his wife

UK intelligence services helped the CIA abduct Abdul Hakim Belhadj and his then-pregnant wife in 2004 from Thailand to return them to Tripoli, where Abdul was tortured. Now Britain has admitted its mistake and paid compensation.

10/05/2018

Malta

Volunteer pilots ready for take-off to help save migrants in the Med

‘Pilotes Volontaires’: two Frenchmen used their savings to buy a light plane, aiming to search the sea off the Libyan coast and help NGOs save migrants in distress.

03/05/2018

World News

As it happened: Thursday morning, May 3

Euronews brings you the latest news and updates as they happen this morning.

02/05/2018

Libya

ISIL claims responsibility for deadly attack in Libya

Suicide bombers stormed the head offices of Libya's electoral commission in Tripoli on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people and setting fire to the building in an attack claimed by the Islamic State militant group.

02/05/2018

World

'They beat you everyday' - the migrants turning back from Libya

Euronews has been to Niger, where many migrants are returning after facing tough conditions in neighbouring Libya

30/04/2018

World News

Ex-French President Sarkozy says accusers make his life 'hell'

The former French president mounted a robust defence of his conduct and promised to make his honour "triumph"

23/03/2018

France

The Euronews interview that is key to the investigation into Nicolas S

Seven years on, the shockwaves of Saif Gaddafi's words are being felt.

22/03/2018

France

Gaddafi’s son offers evidence that Libya funded Sarkozy election bid

Saif al-Islam, son of Libya’s ex-dictator Muammar Gaddafi, welcomes Nicolas Sarkozy’s detention – and offers evidence for claims first made to Euronews that Libya funded the former French president’s 2007 election bid.

21/03/2018

France

Sarkozy questioned a second day over allegations of Libyan funding

The former president has dismissed the Libya allegations of receiving money from the dictatorial regime of Kahdafi, as 'grotesque' and a 'crude manipulation'

21/03/2018

France

Sarkozy funding scandal: what does it all mean?

Euronews explains what the Libyan case, how it all started, the biggest players in the case, and what could happen next for the former French president.

20/03/2018

Libya

Hundreds of migrants rescued off Libya

Rescue ships and Libya's coastguard picked up several hundred migrants on Saturday. Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted three migrant boats off Zawiya, just west of the capital, Tripoli.

11/03/2018

Libya

Libya repatriates 250 African migrants

They were the latest to be sent home as part of a voluntary deportation scheme

20/02/2018

News

Libya to mark 7 years since revolution

Since the fall of Gaddafi in 2011, which led to the disintegration of the security apparatus, Libya has been torn apart by the struggle for influence

16/02/2018

World News

2018 already proves deadly for migrants

Less than two weeks into the New Year and 81 migrants have already died trying to reach Europe.

11/01/2018