Libya

A baby boy named Miracle has been born on board a humanitarian ship - a bright spot as the tide of migrants risking sea crossings from Libya to Italy has increased as the weather has improved.

RAWALPINDI: Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed on Saturday said that former Libyan leader late Colonel Gaddafi warned him about a possible unrest in Balochistan, ARY News reported. "Colonel Gaddafi told me that we…

TRIPOLI: More than 100 east African migrants escaped from a camp in the Libyan town of Bani Walid where they were being held hostage and tortured, international agencies and local sources said on Saturday. The migrants from Eritrea,…

Libya, where rival authorities and numerous militias are vying for power, fell into chaos after the ouster of strongman Moamer Gaddafi in October 2011. Gaddafi killed Gaddafi, who ruled Libya for 42 years, is killed on October 20, 2011,…

TRIPOLI: A suicide attack on Libya's electoral commission killed at least 11 people in the capital Tripoli on Wednesday, authorities in the violence-wracked country said, after witnesses reported thick smoke and gunfire. The…

French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy blasted what he said was a lack of evidence for the corruption charges against him over claims the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi funded his 2007 election campaign.

PARIS: French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy was taken into police custody on Tuesday and questioned over allegations that late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi financed his 2007 election campaign via suitcases stuffed with cash, a source…

TRIPOLI: The bodies of around a dozen Pakistani refugees who drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea will be sent back to Pakistan, Libyan officials say. The PressTV report cited a hospital official as saying that the bodies…

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal on Sunday said that efforts were being made to bring back dead bodies of Pakistani citizens drowned in the latest migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya.…

GUJRANWALA: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) claimed to have rounded up three men involved in human trafficking in the wake of the latest migrant tragedy off the coast of Libya. On Friday, a boat full of migrants capsized off the…