Incident came after up to 60 people reported to have died last week in the Mediterranean after setting out from the Libyan coast
Libya
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SOS Mediterranee picks up more than 220 people, including women and children, in rescue operations in the past two days
The novelist has been shaped by the Libyan embassy siege in London in 1984, and the kidnapping of his father
Advice came amid fears of repeat of ‘LÉ Aisling situation’, when an ex-Naval Service ship ended up in the hands of a Libyan warlord, documents indicate
Serious mismanagement of the economy has impoverished many but the authoritarian president has never allowed his grip on power to loosen
Shipwrecked boat was carrying some 86 people in the Mediterranean Sea after departing city of Zwara
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Journalists ordered out of Derna, where thousands are dead or missing, with officials claiming they were impeding rescue efforts
Some 3,200 bodies buried so far, many in mass graves outside the devastated city of Derna, with others moved to nearby towns and cities
Rescue teams continue to comb through the rubble while some survivors report miraculous escapes
UN says at least 11,300 have died and more than 10,000 are missing city of Derna
A Sudanese refugee finds that so-called legal routes to safety can bring their own forms of psychological torture
Thousands of bodies buried amid fears that failing to do so could lead to the spread of disease
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