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At least 16,000 African migrants have been repatriated from camps in Libya under an emergency plan, the EU's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Tuesday.European and African leaders announced a plan for accelerated…

A new programme worth €50 million, to improve the living conditions and resilience of vulnerable populations in key Libyan municipalities has been adopted under the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (North of Africa window).…

Workers' strike at the Libyan oil port of Al-Zawiya delayed loading activity on Monday but negotiations were under way to resolve the dispute, several oil and trading sources told Reuters. Workers at…

The former Libyan ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Aref Al-Nayed has officially announced that he is running for the 2018 presidential elections in Libya.Al-Nayed told Egyptian newspaper Youm 7 that he has been working…

A Spanish humanitarian group says it has rescued three migrant brothers who set out from Libya in a rubber dinghy to seek leukemia treatment for one of them.Riccardo Gatti of the aid group Proactiva Open Arms told Italy’s RAI state…

The Syrian army has made a significant advance in its effort to take rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, reports say.Troops have cut off the region's biggest town, Douma, and isolated another, according to UK-based conflict monitors the…

The World Customs Organization awarded the Libyan Misurata Automatic Inspection Office with the Certificate of Merit on the occasion of World Customs Day. The certificate was given to Misurata office for the…

IS (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a car bombing at a checkpoint in eastern Libya that killed at least three persons.A Libyan official said the attack Friday targeted a checkpoint on the outskirts of the…

Iranian state TV reported citing aviation official that the crashed aircraft was heading from the city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to Turkey's most populous city of Istanbul.According to the Iranian News Agency Tasnim, a…