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Friday 23 October 2020
The LÉ Aisling was sold by the Department of Defence in 2017 for €110,000 to a Dutch company.
Some of the people on board have spent months or years in Libyan detention camps, suffering torture and sexual abuse.
The tragedy comes after 44 migrants were killed in an air strike on their detention centre in Libya.
Meanwhile, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has condemned the attack.
At least 70 were wounded in the raid on the Tajoura suburb, an emergency services spokesperson said.
Ireland had built up a valuable beef export partnership with Libya.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
270 people were killed in the attack 30 years ago today.
British bomber Salman Abedi had been visiting Libya during a year off before university.
The mother had been kidnapped in Libya and was subjected to regular beatings before she escaped.
Irish people have responded to emergencies in Iraq, Libya and Africa, to name a few.
Sarkozy is being questioned over suspected Libyan financing of his election campaign in 2007.
A video showing the apparent trade surfaced last week.
The corpses have been stored there for the past year awaiting a final decision on their fate.
Germany-based Sea-Eye said it made the decision to halt its water rescues “with a heavy heart,” but for the sake of its crew’s safety.
Sales of outboard motors will also be cut back.
Twenty-two people were killed on 22 May attack at an Ariana Grande concert.
A baby girl was born on the LE Eithne.
A statement by his captors, the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Battalion, said Seif al-Islam was released on Friday.
The waves of desperate people slipping across international borders every year has created a massive moneymaking opportunity for unscrupulous human traffickers.
Meanwhile, the investigation into the blast widened.
22-year-old Abedi, a business degree dropout, was the suicide bomber who killed at least 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester on Monday night.
The slaves are forced to call their families, and beaten while on the phone, to get money demanded for their freedom.
The bodies recovered were African men with estimated ages of between 16 and 25.
Rashid Kadura is making a documentary about the hardcore rugby community in Benghazi, Libya.
Officials said there was no transport available to move the bodies and no cemetery to bury them in.
The ruling could pave the way for similar lawsuits.
More than 5,000 people died in the Mediterranean last year, the majority of them on the Libya-Italy migrant route.
They had claimed to have a grenade when they took over the plane, which had over 100 people on board.
Witnesses said several homes were hit by rockets and shells in the confrontation.
Many of those who sailed today from Libya are believed to have been forced to do so at gunpoint.
They were taken aboard the LÉ Samuel Beckett, where they received food, water and medical treatment where required.
The rescue, which took place 40 nautical miles north-east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, (about 75 miles, or a third of the way to Malta) followed a request from the Italian Maritime Rescue Co-Ordination Centre.
In one case, it successfully located and rescued 165 migrants from wooden and rubber vessels off the coast of Libya.
The lawsuit blames their deaths on Clinton’s “reckless” handling of classified information on her private email server.
Around 50 people have been resecued from the water.
French surveillance planes spotted the group making advances towards oil fields in Libya.
A Libyan man has been arrested in connection with the killing of 25-year-old police officer Yvonne Fletcher.
And almost €3 million is linked to Al Qaeda, Syria and Iran.
This brings to number of those killed in the Mediterranean this year to more than 2,500.
AS THE COUNTRY enters Level 5 restrictions for the next six weeks, we’ll all be finding different ways to occupy our time or take a break from work.
In April and May, many people put their trainers on and went for long walks, jogs or runs. Others took a dip in the sea.
With restrictions now in place, we want to know: Do you plan to exercise more over the next six weeks?
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