Greece charges 5 with smuggling 96 migrants to Italy by sea
The more common sea route for asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa seeking a better life in Europe is from Turkey to Greece or Italy. “Due to the high number of passengers and the poor health conditions, the vessel was unseaworthy,” the coast guard said in a statement Tuesday. It said the migrants — whose nationalities were not made public — had paid between $6,500-8,000 each to be taken to Italy. On June 28, 166 migrants on an unseaworthy fishing boat that had left Lebanon for Italy were rescued off Karpathos. Greece’s coast guard charged six people on board with migrant smuggling in that case.
Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 18:54 UTC
Libyan HoR Speaker, PC Deputy Head meet with Turkish President in Ankara
Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Aqila Saleh, accompanied by the Deputy Head of the Presidential Council (PC), Abdulla al-Lafi, met Tuesday in Ankara with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. For its part, the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency said that the meeting between Erdogan, Saleh and al-Lafi took place in the presidential complex away from media. It added that the meeting was attended by the Speaker of the Turkish Parliament, Mustafa Sentop, who had previously met with Saleh. Sentop and Saleh chaired a meeting of the two countries’ delegations after their bilateral meeting at the Turkish Parliament headquarters in Ankara. Sentop said that the existing relations between Turkey and Libya extend back to ancient eras, indicating that strengthening relations between the parliaments of the two countries will reflect positively on the rest of the fields and sectors.
Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 17:36 UTC
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Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 17:24 UTC
MTV Opens ‘Best Metaverse Performance’ Award
MTV has become one of the first mainstream television channels to launch a “Best Metaverse Performance” category for its annual Video Music Awards show, it wrote in a press release last week. The ceremony will reveal the winner among nominated hit artists such as Twenty One Pilots, Ariana Grande, BTS, Justin Bieber, Charli XCX and Blackpink, who debuted their Metaverse concerts on Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft, Wave, Roblox, and PUBG: Mobile, respectively. MTV has opened voting for the best artist and plans to reveal the winners on 28 August. The company said it kicked off the category to recognise artists increasingly entering the virtual space. Metaverse concerts have begun expanding rapidly among several of the world’s largest platforms, including Decentraland, The Sandbox, Fortnite, Meta’s Horizon Worlds, Roblox, and others, leading to a resurgence of the music and filming industry and new mediums for engaging with artists and fans with Web3 and immersive technologies.
Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 16:16 UTC
UN Secretary-General: Williams’ experience led to key achievements in Libyan dialogue
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed his sincere gratitude to Stephanie Williams, who has just concluded her assignment as his Special Adviser on Libya, according to Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General. “He is thankful for her service to the organization and her dedication in pursuit of a solution to the political crisis in Libya,” Dujarric said in a statement. Williams’ deep knowledge and experience of Libya, and her remarkable ability to foster conditions conducive for dialogue and consensus among all stakeholders, has led to key achievements in the political, security and economic dialogue tracks,” the statement pointed out. Williams made critical contributions to the signing of a nation-wide ceasefire agreement in October 2020, to the adoption of the political roadmap by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in November 2020, and to the unprecedented level of consensus achieved in the Joint Committee of the House of Representatives and the High State Council on a constitutional framework for elections,” it added. The statement said Secretary-General reiterated the commitment of the United Nations to support a Libyan-led and Libyan-owned process to address outstanding challenges and ensure the holding of presidential and parliamentary elections as soon as possible.
Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 15:48 UTC
PTI to challenge ECP’s verdict on foreign funding case
Former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Tuesday said that the party will challenge the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP’s) verdict in court, using political and legal means. The ECP, in a unanimous verdict, said that the PTI received foreign funds from 34 individuals and 351 businesses. In addition, PTI took funds from an American businessman, the ECP said, issuing a show-cause notice to the party. “Today’s verdict proved that there was no foreign funding case. The former foreign minister added that the coalition government had wished that the PTI should be nullified.
Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 15:27 UTC
Şentop highlights Turkey's support for Libya in meeting with Saleh
Parliament Speaker Mustafa Şentop highlighted Turkey’s support for Libya’s territorial integrity in a meeting with his Libyan counterpart Aguila Saleh in the capital Ankara on Tuesday. “For Turkey, Libya is a whole with its west, east and south and cannot be divided. He noted that the newly formed government appointed by the House of Representatives prioritizes presidential and parliamentary elections, as he pointed to Turkey’s support for Libya in this regard. Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in December said that Saleh and Haftar had backtracked on a potential meeting. Once again, two competing governments are vying for control in Libya, already torn by more than a decade of civil war.
Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 14:57 UTC
From Kosovo to Libya, up to Taiwan: the cascading effect of the war in Ukraine that can open new crises and destabilize (also) the EU and NATO
From the Kosovo at the Libyafrom Taiwan until the parallel wars for Petroleum, gas And grain. The cascading effect of the Russian invasion ofUkraine it engulfs more and more sensitive areas of the world with each passing day. Different, at least in its epilogue, is the question concerning the grain what consequences it could have on Europe and the United States, but only for a long time. Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan and the risk of escalation with ChinaThe United States is playing the Ukrainian game, with its consequences globally, on two fronts. The last European war before, in fact, the one that began in Volodymyr Zelensky’s country: the Kosovo.
Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 14:16 UTC
US amb. to Libya thanks outgoing SASG Stephanie Williams for her efforts
CAIRO - 2 August 2022: US Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland thanked on Tuesday the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General (SASG), Stephanie Williams, for her efforts in Libya over the past years. The Libyan news agency quoted the US diplomat as saying that he thanked Williams for her efforts that pave the way for holding elections in Libya. On Monday, in her farewell statement as the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General, Stephanie Williams said that the only way forward for Libya is through the holding of elections.
Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 13:57 UTC
These two sisters provide food and shelter for homeless animals in Libya
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Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 13:47 UTC
Death penalty upheld for Ohio man who fatally shot couple
COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for a man who shot and killed a couple whose house and dog he was caring for while they were away on vacation. Death row inmate George Brinkman pleaded guilty to the 2017 deaths of Rogell and Roberta John and was sentenced to death by a three-judge Stark County panel. The state Supreme Court on Thursday rejected arguments by Brinkman’s attorneys that he should be spared because of childhood abuse he suffered and mental health issues. Brinkman, 50, also received a death sentence for the killings in Cuyahoga County of a woman and her two adult daughters the day before the Johns were slain. Brinkman is awaiting a new trial in that case after the state Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence, saying a three-judge panel failed to inform him about his right to question witnesses.
Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 11:38 UTC
Egypt extends condolences to Libyan people over deadly fuel truck blast
CAIRO – 2 August 2022: Egypt has extended condolences to the Libyan people over a deadly fuel truck explosion in Libya that took place on Monday. In a statement, the Egyptian Foreign Minister said it wishes a speedy recovery for the injured people. Egypt is following up the repercussions of the unfortunate incident that took place in the sisterly Libya, which have killed and injured a number of people, the ministry said. At least six people were killed and 70 others were injured when a fuel truck exploded in Sebha city in southern Libya, according to the Libyan Ministry of Health on Monday. The injured, some of whom had critical injuries were moved to hospitals in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the ministry said.
Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 11:36 UTC
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Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 06:48 UTC
As species recover, some threaten others in more dire shape
“Merlins are a big threat to their recovery,” said Nathan Cooper, a research ecologist with Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Rather, they illustrate nature’s complexity and the importance of protecting biological communities, not just individual species. Fishing groups contend the seals could threaten cod stocks that regulators are struggling to rebuild after decades of overfishing. NATURE AT WORKConflicts between recovering species and ones still in trouble don’t always mean something is wrong, scientists say. The eagle’s recovery “complicates the conservation of certain other species,” Lyons said.
Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 01:47 UTC
EU drone helps Libya return migrants to ‘abuse’: HRW
TRIPOLI: A European Union drone is helping Libyan forces intercept boats carrying migrants in the Mediterranean, who are then "hauled back to arbitrary detention and abuse", Human Rights Watch said on Monday. "Frontex claims the surveillance is to aid rescue, but the information facilitates interceptions and returns to Libya ... (despite) overwhelming evidence of torture and exploitation of migrants and refugees in Libya," HRW said in a statement. HRW said Frontex’s drone appeared to have helped Libyan forces intercept a boat in international waters, without informing nearby rescuers. It said it was investigating how "the shift from sea to air surveillance contributes to the cycle of extreme abuse in Libya". The HRW report comes days after media reports that Frontex routinely covered up illegal "pushbacks" of migrants by the Greek coastguard.
Source:Libya Today
August 02, 2022 01:10 UTC