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The Libyan coastguards said Saturday they rescued 148 illegal immigrants of different Arab and African nationalities off the country's western coast."After receiving a distress call, a search and rescue coast guards patrol rescued 148…

Libya's coastguards have intercepted 108 Europe-bound illegal migrants off the country's Mediterranean coast.The Libyan Navy spokesman Ayoub Qassim said the rubber boat with the African and Middle Eastern migrants, including 13 women…

At least 40 people are feared dead following an accident of a boat off the coast of Libya, according to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR)."Terrible news coming in of potentially large loss of life in a shipwreck off the coast of…

The Libyan coast guard said it had rescued 278 migrants on four different boats in recent days.The migrants, including 18 women and two children, had been trying to make their way to Europe.Libya's coast guard on Saturday said it…

The Libyan Coast Guard picked up a total of 315 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday who were trying to reach Europe in three inflatable boats, a spokesman said.The migrants, who included 275 men, 32 women and eight children…

More than 70 migrants, including three children, were rescued today off the coast of Libya as the Aquarius, chartered by the NGOs SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders came to their aid.An AFP photographer was aboard the…

The Libyan navy on Saturday rescued 252 migrants seeking to reach Europe, in two separate operations off the country's western coast."We were alerted... to the position of a migrant boat" around 30km off Zawiya, west of Tripoli,…

The Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms announced Tuesday evening via social networks that its ship, Blue Gulf, had been seized for two hours by the Libya coastguard in international waters and forced to head to Libyan ones, ANSA reported…