Libya sends immigrants back to Egypt
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TRIPOLI, Libya Libya said Thursday that it had sent 1,000 Egyptian immigrants home after their expulsion from Italy. Italy airlifted illegal immigrants to Libya this week in an effort to deter would-be asylum
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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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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, easing his country's way back into the international fold, on Tuesday became the first Arab leader to promise compensation for Jews who were forced from their homes due to religious tension.
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ISMAILIA, Egypt  - A young Egyptian man swam along the Mediterranean coast from the Gaza Strip to Egypt overnight after almost two years of living without papers in the Palestinian enclave, police sources said on Sunday.
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Hamas Islamists called on Egypt on  Saturday to open its shuttered border crossing with the Gaza  Strip to let more than 2,000 Palestinians return to their Gaza  homes from the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca.
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More migrants arrive on Italy's Lampedusa island as PM Berlusconi prepares for migration talks in Libya.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Aug 28, 2004 (PANA) -- A group of 84 Eritrean deportees who on Friday forced a Libyan plane to land in Khartoum instead of Asmara, their country&#39;s capital, has requested for political asylum in Sudan.
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Thousands of Gazans cross into Egypt via a ruined border fence for a second day, as Egyptian police gather.
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ISMAILIA, Egypt  - Egypt called in police reinforcements and sealed gaps at the breached border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
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afrol News, 15 December - As the first Arab nation, the government of Egypt yesterday signed a trade pact with its neighbour Israel that will help breaking the latter&#39;s economic isolation.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak returned home on Wednesday after ending a swift visit to Syria, the official MENA news agency reported.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi for talks on how to stop illegal immigrants using the north African state as a springboard for entry into Italy.
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Italy has defended a tough new policy on illegal immigrants, which has put hundreds of new arrivals from sub-Saharan Africa on planes back to Libya without granting them the opportunity to apply for asylum.
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NEW YORK, Sep 12 (IPS) - The government of Libya routinely subjects  migrants, asylum seekers and refugees -- primarily from  sub-Saharan Africa -- to serious human rights abuses, including  beatings, arbitrary arrests, forced returns and in some cases,  torture, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released  Tuesday.
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Egyptian border guards wielding clubs and electric prods directed throngs of Palestinians as they crossed into Egypt for a second day Thursday, but made little attempt to block the flow from Gaza.
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Libya claimed to have repatriated up to 40,000 illegal immigrants and arrested several people traffickers as the Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi arrived in the capital Tripoli yesterday
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Egypt sent a convicted Israeli spy  home after eight years in jail and Israel released six Egyptian  infiltrators Sunday in a sign that relations strained by the  Palestinian uprising were warming.