Libya

At least ten migrants have died after their Europe-bound boats sank off Libya's coast and some 100 people are missing, coastguard officials and aid groups said on June 10.

Eight bodies were found on an inflatable craft that can carry up to 120 passengers, said Colonel Fathi al-Rayani, head of the coastguard in Garabulli, 60 kilometres (40 miles) east of Tripoli.

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Turkey has voiced its concerns over the escalation of violence that took place in Libya's capital Tripoli on May 26.

The clashes between forces loyal to the U.N.-backed and unity government - based in the capital - and forces loyal to the Tobruk-based government left at least 25 people dead and 50 others injured in Tripoli.

Turkey delivered 22 tons of medicine and medical supplies to Libya on May 24, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has said.

British authorities released a photo of the Salman Abedi, 22, the Islamist suicide attacker who carried out Monday’s deadly attack killing 22 people at the Manchester Arena. In the ph0to taken some year back, the man appears to be wearing Islamic garb at a religious school.

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Dozens of troops and civilians have reportedly been slaughtered in an attack on an airbase in southern Libya. The attack was blamed on the militia backing the Tripoli-based government of National Accord (GNA), which denies that it sanctioned the carnage.

Serbian Ambassador to Libya Oliver Potezica has died in a hospital in Sousse of injuries that he received in a traffic accident in this Tunisian town.

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic confirmed the news on Wednesday.

More than 200 migrants are feared to have died in the Mediterranean over the weekend, according to testimony from survivors, and several bodies, including that of an infant, have washed up on a Libyan beach.

As a departure point for refugees trying to get to Europe, migrants arriving in Libya from sub-Saharan Africa are particularly vulnerable due to a lack of money and little in the way of documentation.

At least 97 migrants went missing after their boat sank April 13 off the Libyan coast, a navy spokesman said.
Survivors said those missing include 15 women and five children, General Ayoub Kacem told AFP.

He said the Libyan Coast Guard had rescued a further 23 migrants of various African nationalities just under 10 kilometers (6 miles) off the coast of Tripoli.