Some 4,200 migrants picked up but 17 die in unexplained circumstances
May 30 Nigel Ash

Some 4,200 migrants picked up but 17 die in unexplained circumstances

By Libya Herald staff.Tripoli, 30 May 2015:In the last 48 hours, 4,260 migrants are known to have set off from the Libyan coast and seventeen of them...

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Oct 3 Nigel Ash

Yet more migrants drown

By Libya Herald reporters.As many as 90 more migrants may have drowned when another almost certainly  unseaworthy and overcrowded boat capsized, only...

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10 dead and 35 missing after another raft sinks off Libyan coast
Sep 22 Newsdesk1

10 dead and 35 missing after another raft sinks off Libyan coast

By Libya Herald staff. The Italian Coast Guard (Photo: Guardia Costiera)Tripoli, 22 September 2014:Another unseaworthy vessel carrying illegal migrant...

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Jul 13 Newsdesk1

Malta-based couple funds first ever private rescue vessel for migrants lost at sea

By Libya Herald staff.Tripoli, 13 July 2014:A Malta-based philanthropist couple has responded to the October Lampedusa shipwrecks that killed around 7...

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Coastguard Search and Rescue skills boosted by training
Mar 5 thomwestcott

Coastguard Search and Rescue skills boosted by training

Tripoli, 5 March 2014:The Libyan Naval Coastguard’s Search and Rescue (SAR) skills have been boosted by training on modern computerised methods to fin...

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Feb 28 thomwestcott

Coastguard rescues over a hundred migrants

Tripoli, 28 February 2014:The Libyan Coastguard rescued 107 migrants, including 20 women and a baby, some 20 miles off the coast of Tripoli last night...

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Feb 24 thomwestcott

Missing Air Force helicopter was shot down, says Military Prosecutor

By Ashraf Abdul Wahab.Tripoli, 24 February 2014:An Air Force helicopter that went missing two weeks ago shortly after taking off from Essider was shot...

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Feb 20 thomwestcott

Italy joins search for missing Air Force helicopter

Tripoli, 20 February 2014:Italian aircraft yesterday joined in the search for evidence of an Air Force helicopter that went missing shortly after taki...

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Feb 18 Callum Paton

Relatives of men lost with Air Force helicopter lift blockade of Benina Airport

By Noora Ibrahim.Benghazi, 18 February 2014:The families of five Air Force officers who went missing six days ago when radio communications were lost...

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Feb 16 thomwestcott

Wreckage from lost Air Force helicopter found

Tripoli, 16 February 2014:Wreckage from an Air Force helicopter which went missing on Wednesday morning minutes after taking off from Essider has been...

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