Libya obstructs path for African migrants
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Under pressure from Europe, Tripoli has taken steps to clamp down on illegal migration.
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Bodies of African migrants wash up on the beaches and those who survive the ocean voyage complain of discrimination and police harassment. This is not Italy or Spain, but the small central African country of Gabon.
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TRIPOLI : Libya set out the contractual framework and tendering terms for oil exploration rights to 15 blocs around the vast desert country as it switches to a transparent bidding process to woo foreign investment for its sanctions-ravaged industry.
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The complex legal action is one of the final kinks left in LibyaÂs once-tangled relations with the West.
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Italy's Interior Minister visits Libya to pave the way for joint efforts to curb illegal immigration into the EU.
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Rome summoned the Libyan ambassador for talks after Italian coastguards apprehended 650 clandestine migrants on two boats near the island of Lampedusa, south of Sicily, amid mounting tension over illegal immigration.
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Libya cannot play Europe's coastguard against unwanted immigration from Africa, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said in an interview with Italian radio.
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Italian military planes carried 360 would-be migrants from the Italian island of Lampedusa to Libya on Wednesday, a move that officials here described as an emergency response
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Ministers from Europe and Africa hold talks on how to halt the influx of illegal African migrants to Europe.
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Italy resumed repatriating illegal immigrants to Libya on Wednesday as Premier Silvio Berlusconi prepared to travel to the North African country for talks with leader Moammar Gadhafi.
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Industrial fishing from Europe is crippling coastal African economies and creating a surge of illegal migrants.
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Foreign tourists stroll in Suk El Muscir Market on the second day of the holy month of Ramadhan, Oct. 16, in Tripoli, Libya. Libya is hosting a summit on Sunday about the Darfur crisis in western Sudan.
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Freed from sanctions, Libyans are rushing to the shops. Goods long denied are flying off the shelves as pro-market reforms and a petrodollar windfall combine to turn those with sufficient savings into compulsive consumers.
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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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CYRENE, Libya - Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy's son unveiled an ambitious plan yesterday to protect ancient Greek ruins, conserve the country's pristine Mediterranean coastline and draw eco-tourists to this former pariah state.
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi warns he will turn his back on Africa if continental unity is again rejected.
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European nations should pay 10  billion euros ($12.7 billion dollars) a year to Africa to help  it stop migrants seeking a better life flooding northwards into  Europe, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Saturday.