According to the Red Crescent, which has been handling the search and rescue operations, eyewitnesses to the disaster said nearly 150 people had packed on to the boat in hopes of reaching Italy.
Under the 1972 UNESCO convention, ratified by both Ukraine and Russia, signatories undertake to “assist in the protection of the listed sites” and are “obliged to refrain from taking any deliberate measures” which might damage World Heritage sites.
In the western town of Tarhuna, hundreds of corpses have been uncovered across several graves after militia fighters loyal to Hifter retreated from the area in June 2020.
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TRIPOLI, Jan 25 (Reuters) – At least eight people died after a boat crammed with scores of African migrants capsized off the Libyan coast, the local Red Crescent organisation said on Wednesday, adding that nearly 100 others had been rescued.
Washington is also seeking more Libyan suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland after last month’s transfer from Libya to the United States of a former Libyan intelligence officer accused of making the bomb that took down the plane.
In a tweet, Fathi Bashagha also urged Libya’s western neighbours Algeria and Tunisia, who did send foreign ministers to the meeting, to “review their policies towards Libya and not to be fooled by a government whose mandate has ended”.
However, the government refused to step down until there are elections and attempts by armed groups aligned with the rival administration to dislodge it from Tripoli by force have failed.
TRIPOLI, March 2 (Reuters) – Libya’s High State Council voted on Thursday to approve a constitutional amendment issued by the country’s parliament that is supposed to provide a basis for elections, its media office said.
“But this requires a clarification that the sole threat to the city’s rich history stems from Ukraine’s nationalist regime which systematically destroys monuments to the founders and defenders of Odesa,” it said in a statement.
Bengdara was speaking to local al-Masar television in an interview broadcast late on Tuesday and said the deal involved the renewal of an existing agreement originally struck in 2008.
Chaos in Libya since the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that ousted autocrat Muammar Gaddafi has left much of the country in the hands of armed factions.
A small Italian military mission has been deployed in Libya for several years.
In its statement, the Missing Persons Authority said they collected samples of the dead bones in an effort to identify the bodies.
Further details on the cause of death for those found were not provided.
TRIPOLI, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni flew to Tripoli on Saturday where she is expected to agree a major gas deal aimed at boosting energy supplies to Europe despite the insecurity and political chaos in the North African country.
Lebanese security forces have been working to prevent migrants from heading to Europe at a time when the small nation is in the grips of the worst economic and financial crisis in its modern history.
In the mid-1960s Ms Stafford moved to London as a single mother and worked with several UK and international publications including The Observer, Vogue, Women’s Wear Daily and The Herald Tribune.
She continued travelling the world and taking photos until the 1980s.
His handover by Dbeibah’s government raised questions of its legality inside Libya, which does not have a standing agreement on extradition with the United States.
Dbeibah´s mandate remains highly contested after planned elections did not take place in late 2021.
The eastern-based parliament and factions that support it said early last year that the government was no longer legitimate, rejecting both the appointment of Bengdara and deals that Tripoli has struck with foreign states.
Ms Stafford’s career launched in 1948 after she took a grainy portrait of Nobel prizewinning physicist Albert Einstein at his home.
She had never used a 35mm camera before her meeting with Einstein and previously admitted she ‘no idea what I was doing’ when she took the photo.
At a Scottish trial before a court at Camp Zeist in The Netherlands, Megrahi was found guilty of the bombing in 2001 and was jailed for life.
He was later released because he was suffering from cancer and died at his home in Tripoli in 2012.