All posts tagged "libya"

  • A migrant is helped disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
    Estimated 900 migrants drown trying to reach Italy

    ROME (AP) — Reports say migrant ship with some 900 overturns north of Libya, coast guard rescue under way. About 100 on Sunday. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel...

    • Posted April 20, 2015
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  • A flag flies over the Moroccan Embassy after a bomb placed in a garbage bin targeted the site in the capital, Tripoli. in Tripoli, Libya on Monday, April 13, 2015. There were no casualties in the attack, which was claimed by Libya's Islamic State affiliate. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa)
    Foreign ministry in trouble for allegedly lying after embassy attack

    SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s foreign ministry came under criticism Tuesday for allegedly lying about the whereabouts of the country’s ambassador to Libya during a weekend attack on the local embassy. Hours after the shooting...

    • Posted April 14, 2015
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  • A flag flies over the Moroccan Embassy after a bomb placed in a garbage bin targeted the site in the capital, Tripoli. in Tripoli, Libya on Monday, April 13, 2015. There were no casualties in the attack, which was claimed by Libya's Islamic State affiliate. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa)
    2 dead in IS shooting at S. Korean Embassy in Libya

    TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Gunmen opened fire early Sunday at the local guards of the South Korean Embassy in the Libyan capital, killing one of them as well as a civilian who was in the area, a...

    • Posted April 13, 2015
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    Kidnapped S. Korean official freed in Libya

    (Yonhap) A South Korean trade official who was abducted by Libyan gunmen earlier this week was released unharmed on Thursday after Libyan forces arrested the kidnappers, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. Han Seok-woo, the chief of the Libya unit...

    • Posted January 23, 2014
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    S. Korean trade agency employee kidnapped in Libya

    (Yonhap) A South Korean trade agency employee in his late 30s was kidnapped in Libya, but the identities of his kidnappers are still not known, the foreign ministry said Monday. The kidnapped person was identified as Han...

    • Posted January 20, 2014
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