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UNHCR has evacuated over 1000 highly vulnerable refugees out of Libya since November and is looking for durable solutions for them in third countries.
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A boat carrying 25 immigrants from Arab and Asian countries, including Libya, sank off Zawiya shore while en route to Europe on Thursday, sources say.
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More than 3400 illegal migrants were rescued from the Mediterranean by the Libyan Coast Guard and the Italian Navy on Saturday, raising the number of the rescued migrants to 10.000 in the last 10 days.
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A dozen migrants died on Tuesday and others were hospitalized in the city of Al-Khums, 115 km to the east of Tripoli, due to suffocation and crush after being locked inside a shipping container, in a new human tragedy in Libya.
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More than 45 African immigrants have drowned after human smugglers intercepted them at sea and stole the motor of their boat at gunpoint, leaving them to their fate.
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