20 March 2014, New York – The Security Council today unanimously adopted a resolution condemning attempts to illicitly export crude oil from Libya and imposing sanctions on vessels involved in such efforts.
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By Taziz Hasairi.
In two separate operations, Tripoli’s Naval Coastguard yesterday rescued 348 migrants trying to reach the shores of Europe.
“One of the vessels was an old wooden boat that had 266 people in it,” Navy spokesperson Ayoub Gassem told the Libya Herald. Amongst the passengers, there were 60 women and nine children on board, he said.
Nikos Tzermias, Rom
[…] Italiens Marine hat seit dem vergangenen Oktober mehr als 10 000 Bootsflüchtlinge gerettet, die trotz Kälte und Sturmgefahr die Fahrt über das Mittelmeer wagten. Ist die italienische Rettungsoperation «Mare Nostrum» kontraproduktiv?
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By Ulf Laessing and Ayman al-Warfalli
The US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt transits the Strait of Gibraltar. US Navy SEALs operating from the USS Roosevelt have seized a tanker that fled with a cargo of oil from a Libyan port, the US Department of Defence said on March 17, 2014, halting an attempt by rebels to sell petroleum on the global market. Picture: Lieutenant Juan David Guerra, US Navy
By Houda Mzioudet.
Libya and Egypt are to suspend entry visa requirements for residents who live either side of the border.
The deal was hammered out at a meeting on Saturday in the Egyptian town of Mersa Matruh to discuss cracking down on smuggling and illegal immigration. It brought together local military, immigration, customs, national security and intelligence officials from the Libyan and Egyptian border zones.
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„[…] In the third quarter of 2013 there was a massive influx of irregular migration in the Central Mediterranean. This, combined with sustained detections in the Ionian and Eastern Aegean Seas, meant that there were more detections of illegal border-crossing at the maritime borders of the EU than during any stage of the Arab Spring in 2011. Concurrent with this influx, there were more applications for international protection in the EU than in any other period since data collection began for this indicator in 2008 […]“
Frontex: FRAN Quarterly
Quarter 3 • July–September 2013
Warschau 2014
http://frontex.europa.eu/assets/Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_Q3_2013.pdf
Auf Befehl des Präsidenten haben US-Spezialtruppen die „Morning Glory“ nahe Zypern aufgebracht. Libysche Rebellen wollten mit dem Schiff auf eigene Faust Öl exportieren.
Eine US-Spezialeinheit hat am Sonntagabend den mit libyschem Öl beladenen Tanker Morning Glory im Mittelmeer erstürmt. Gemeinsam mit dem Verbundkommando Special Operations Command Europe habe ein Team der Navy Seals das staatenlose Schiff in internationalen Gewässern südöstlich von Zypern unter seine Kontrolle gebracht, teilte das US-Verteidigungsministerium mit. […]“
via Libyen: Navy Seals erstürmen entführten Öltanker | ZEIT ONLINE
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Zeidan has flown to Germany despite travel ban slapped on him by Libya’s top prosecutor for his suspected involvement in embezzlement of public funds.
Middle East Online
ROME – Libya’s fugitive ex-prime minister Ali Zeidan has flown to Germany in defiance of a travel ban after changing planes in Malta, Maltese government sources said Wednesday.
Zeidan arrived in Malta on a Libyan state plane Tuesday evening but then switched to a private jet after a brief stopover before departing for Germany, they said.
That version of events differed slightly from the account given by Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in a television interview.
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Son champ d’action est l’Afrique du Nord
par Salem Ferdi
Les Etats-Unis vont accroître les capacités d’une force d’intervention militaire rapide, installée dans la base de Moron, en Andalousie (Espagne) après l’attaque du 11 septembre 2012, contre le Consulat américain de Benghazi où l’ambassadeur Chris Stevens et trois autres Américains ont été tués.
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