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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Apr 15, 2018
As Kim-Trump summit approaches, Syria strikes evoke memories of Gadhafi's gruesome fate for North Korea
Could the decision to strike Syrian targets after a recent chemical weapons attack impact the planned landmark summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 27, 2018
Kim Jong Un and John Bolton take different lessons from Libya and Gadhafi's fall
The last remnants of Libya's nuclear program were loaded onto an aircraft in 2009 and shipped out of the country, part of a U.S.-brokered deal with dictator Moammar Gadhafi to disarm in return for sanctions relief. Two years later, NATO-backed rebels brutally killed him.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 20, 2018
Italy seizes charity's ship that picked up migrants after it refused to turn them over to Libya
Italian authorities seized a charity's ship on suspicion it had helped illegal immigration by picking up migrants in the Mediterranean instead of letting Libya's coast guard take them back to North Africa, the aid group said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 15, 2018
TB death of Eritrean migrant in Italy points to dire, fatal conditions in Libya: aid workers
A 22-year-old Eritrean man died of tuberculosis exacerbated by severe malnutrition after being rescued at sea and brought to Italy, showing how dire conditions are in Libya for migrants, aid workers said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 8, 2018
Refugees stuck in Libya detention as U.N. evacuation plan stalls and Europe slow to take them in
An emergency plan to evacuate refugees from dangerous prisons in Libya has stalled because European countries are taking too long to resettle them, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 2, 2018
New EU sea mission no longer requires ships to take migrants only to Italy
The European Union's border agency Frontex launched a new Mediterranean operation called Themis on Thursday, removing the obligation of the previous mission to bring rescued migrants only to Italy.
WORLD
Jan 24, 2018
At least 22 killed as car bomb explodes at Benghazi mosque, another goes off after responders arrive
A double car bombing in the east Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday left at least 22 people dead and 30 wounded, including senior security figures, according to officials and a Reuters witness.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 10, 2018
Survivors say some 50 migrants may have drowned off Libya after 300 are rescued
Survivors from a boat that sank off Libya's coast on Tuesday said about 50 people who had embarked with them were missing and feared dead.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 1, 2018
Libya accord praised as migrant arrivals to Italy by sea fell by a third in 2017
Migrant arrivals to Italy by sea fell by a third in 2017 compared to a year earlier, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday, as Libyan authorities helped to slow departures during the second half of the year.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 28, 2017
Libya flies 142 migrants back to Guinea with U.N. agency's help
Libya put 142 illegal migrants on a flight back to Guinea on Wednesday with the help of the U.N. migration agency, officials said, as the North African country steps up deportations to ease severe overcrowding in its detention centers.
BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2017
Attackers blow up Libyan crude pipeline, cutting output by 90,000 barrels per day and sending prices up
Armed men blew up a Libyan pipeline pumping crude oil to Es Sider port on Tuesday, reducing the North African country's output by around 90,000 barrels a day, military and oil sources said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 12, 2017
Amnesty accuses EU of being 'complicit' by abetting migrant rights violations in Libya
European governments are "complicit" in grave human rights violations in Libya through their support for authorities there that often work with people smugglers and torture refugees and migrants, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 8, 2017
Sale of migrants as slaves in Libya may constitute crime against humanity: UNSC
The sale of migrants into slavery in Libya may amount to crimes against humanity, the United Nations Security Council said on Thursday, voicing "grave concern" after footage appearing to show Africans being auctioned there sparked global outrage.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 27, 2017
Libya migrant trade survivors talk of fake rescuers and cabbies, rape and high-seas murder
When uniformed men boarded the overloaded rubber dingy carrying Christelle Timdi and her boyfriend to a new life in Europe she thought the Italian coast guard had come to rescue them.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 24, 2017
Libya's U.N.-backed regime investigating African migrant slave market reports
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WORLD
Oct 26, 2017
Islamic State takes credit for Libya checkpoint attack that left two soldiers dead
Two soldiers were killed and three wounded at a military checkpoint in northeastern Libya on Wednesday, witnesses and officials said, in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 10, 2017
U.N. trying to aid thousands of migrants detained in Libyan smuggling hub of Sabratha
The U.N. migration agency said on Monday it was trying to provide assistance to large numbers of migrants who had been held in the smuggling hub of Sabratha as rival factions battled for control of the city.
WORLD
Oct 5, 2017
Islamic State takes credit for deadly attack on court in Libya's Misrata
Gunmen killed at least four people and wounded nearly 40 on Wednesday in a suicide attack on a court complex in the Libyan city of Misrata, officials and a witness said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 4, 2017
Britain's top diplomat Boris Johnson makes off-colored joke about dead bodies in Libya
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson quipped on Tuesday that Libya can become a new Dubai if it can clear the dead bodies away, the latest gaffe by Britain's top diplomat.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 5, 2017
Malta-based aid group halts Mediterranean migrant rescues amid tensions, sending ship to help Rohingya
A Malta-based humanitarian group that has been rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean for three years said on Monday it was suspending operations after months of rising tensions with Italian and Libyan authorities.

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