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February 9, 2026 4:56 PM

Fifty-three migrants dead or missing after boat capsizes off Libya, IOM says

Fifty-three migrants, including two babies, were dead or missing after a rubber boat carrying 55 people capsized off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration said on Monday. The boat departed from Zawiya on Thursday and then overturned off Zuwara on Friday, the IOM said in a statement, citing the survivors. Zawiya and Zuwara are coastal towns west of the Libyan capital, Tripoli. "Only two Nigerian women were rescued during a search-and-rescue operation by Libyan authori...

November 11, 2025 11:55 AM

France’s Sarkozy back home after court frees him pending appeal

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was freed from jail and went home on Monday, after a Paris court ruled he could be released while he appeals against his conviction for conspiring to raise funds from Libya. Sarkozy was sent to prison on October 21 after he was found guilty in September of criminal conspiracy over efforts by close aides to procure funds for his 2007 presidential bid from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The former conservative leader, who was president from 2007 to 20...

November 11, 2025 4:48 PM

Lebanon releases son of Libya’s Gaddafi after almost decade in detention

Hannibal Gaddafi, youngest son of Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi, was released on Monday after almost a decade of detention without trial in Lebanon over the disappearance of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric, Lebanon's National News Agency said. Gaddafi was abducted in 2015 by militants in Syria, where he was living in exile with his Lebanese wife and children after his father was killed in the uprising that erupted in Libya in 2011. Lebanese authorities took custody of him that same year and accu...

September 6, 2024 11:43 AM

OPEC+ agrees to delay October oil output hike for two months

OPEC+ has agreed to delay a planned oil output increase for October and November, the producers' group said on Thursday after crude prices hit their lowest in nine months, adding that it could further pause or reverse the hikes if needed. Oil prices have been falling along with other asset classes on concerns about a weak global economy and soft data from China, the world's biggest oil importer. Eight members of OPEC+, which is made up of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries...

July 9, 2024 6:00 PM

UN probing reported mass grave on Libya-Tunisia border

The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday that his office was following up on reports of a mass grave in the desert along the Libya-Tunisia border, after the bodies of at least 65 migrants were found at another site earlier this year. In a speech, Volker Turk denounced widespread violations against migrants and refugees in Libya, which straddes a dangerous transit route that runs through the Sahara Desert and across the southern Mediterranean. Abuses against migrants were being "perpetrated ...