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Friday 23 October 2020
The bodies of 25 people, including four children, are also on board.
It’s believed that up to 600 people were on board the stricken vessel.
Another Irish Naval vessel will be sent to replace the Éithne, once her mission comes to an end.
The crew has now rescued 1,064 migrnats in the Mediterranean.
In five successful missions, the crew has now rescued 756 migrants in the Mediterranean.
The EU plan will see warships sent to the Libyan coast.
The boats are getting ever more rickety and the numbers crammed on them are increasing.
The captain has been arrested.
Tension is currently mounting in Italy over a recent influx of migrants.
The toppling of Muammar Gaddafi was just the beginning.
The Irish Government made representations on behalf of Abdullah Abu Bakir Hassan’s family in Ireland.
Almost 203,000 cattle and sheep were exported so far this year.
It’s estimated that between 25 and 30 Irish people have traveled to the area where Islamic State is active.
The country’s government has branded the Islamist militias as ‘terrorists’.
Ever wondered how the Marine Corps mobilises so quickly, and how missions are carried out?
Around 200 people have been killed in the last two weeks in Tripoli and Benghazi.
Cashes broke out yesterday when Islamist groups launched an assault on the headquarters of a special forces unit
Everyone’s talking about Mountjoy prison, Gaza protests, and Cork beaches…
A spokesperson said the decision to leave the embassy had not been taken lightly.
Under the Obama administration the NSA has continued to grow and Libya has slipped into chaos, meanwhile relations with Russia are reaching crisis point.
Special forces, working with FBI agents, carried out Sunday’s operation and the suspect
This year marks the first time that all students at Leaving Cert level will sit the new Project Maths exam.
He said in a statement that he would not accept the premiership after the “traitorous attack”.
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Saadi Gaddafi was best known as the head of Libya’s football federation and a player who paid his way into Italy’s top division.
The British Foreign Office said it is “urgently seeking” further information.
The death toll is likely to rise, according to witnesses on scene.
It is the third anniversary of the Tunisian protest which sparked a flame across the Middle East and North Africa.
Everybody’s talking about the aid crisis in the Philippines, Labour senator injured and the ASTI’s refusal to accept the Haddington Road deal.
Gunmen opened fire on a crowd demanding their disbandment, officials say.
“They forced us to watch our men being tortured with various methods including batons [and] electric shocks to the feet. Whoever rebelled was tied up”.
Nobody was killed in the blasts, officials confirmed.
The pre-dawn seizure of Zeidan came five days after US commandos embarrassed and angered Libya’s government.
Libya has asked for clarifications regarding the abduction of an al-Qaida leader in Tripoli.
US forces captured a suspect in the 1988 US embassy bombings during a raid in Libya. Another raid, targeting a militant in Somalia, was aborted after a gun battle.
A Libyan militant suspected in the 1998 US embassy bombings was captured by US forces. A leader of the Shabab group was targeted in southern Somalia in a second raid.
It is unacceptable that medical staff are being denied access to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis since the Cold War, writes Irish-Libyan doctor Dr Fatima Hamroush.
Plus: How many people have visited the church in Spain with the botched fresco of Jesus?
The Bab al-Aziziya compound covers several square hectares of prime real estate in central Tripoli.
Amnesty International says European funding to secure Libyan borders is resulting in ‘holding centres’ where abuses occur.
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has “done what I’ve done for the black community”. Biden then said Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire” and claimed he “has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn”.
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