High season for Libya's people smugglers
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The smuggler tantalized the young men with a promise to get them out of this fly-covered poverty of their town north of Cairo and transport them to a promised land of jobs and money in Italy.
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Vittorio Gioni should be readying his hotels and restaurants for an influx of Europeans seeking adventure in the Sahara when the tourist season starts in October.
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About 300 African migrants travel to the Canary Islands by boat, bringing the number of recent arrivals to 600.
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Saying it has been overwhelmed by a sudden influx of illegal immigrants sailing across the Mediterranean, Italy has begun deporting hundreds of newly arrived people to Libya despite widespread condemnation of ...
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CANCUN, Mexico  - International smugglers of  weapons and drugs are increasingly trafficking women from  Africa, Latin America and Asia to developed countries where  they are duped into working as prostitutes, Interpol said on  Wednesday.
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MELLITAH: Libya, a key transit point for Africans trying to sneak into Europe, said overnight it had deported 1000 Egyptian migrants back home after their controversial expulsion from Italy.
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LONDON, July 17 -- Officials in Libya on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of six foreign health workers convicted of intentionally infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, the latest in a series of steps aimed at closing a case that has severely strained relations between a once-pariah...
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A British high court approved the extradition of a Libyan national to Italy, where he is wanted on charges of planning terrorist attacks in that country and abroad.
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Others were spotted heading from Libya to Lampedusa in a rubber dinghy, according to an Italian coastguard quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
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Triads are fuelling a trade that has seen a surge in violence in the aready crime-riddled Cape, writes Sam Kiley.
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AGADEZ, Niger  - Customs officers in this dusty  Saharan town turned a blind eye as yet another creaking truck  piled with grain, smuggled cigarettes and dozens of migrants  heading for Europe rumbled off into the desert.
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On October 6, 360 Africans were put on Hercules transports belonging to the Italian army and were flown from Lampedusa, an island off the coast of Sicily, to a holding camp in Libya.
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Police have arrested 17 non-Libyans suspected of being al-Qaida members who entered this North African country illegally, the interior minister said Sunday.
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Libya said today it had deported 1,000 Egyptian migrants back home after their controversial expulsion from Italy. Italy airlifted illegal immigrants to Libya this week in a bid to deter would-be asylum seekers
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In Stillmore, Ga., more than 120 illegal migrants were arrested last month.
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Malta's Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi met with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, officials here said, amid growing efforts by southern European countries to halt illegal immigration from Libya.
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Robberies at highest level for three years, according to government figures.