Around 650,000 migrants in Libya are currently waiting to immigrate to Europe via the Mediterranean Sea, a report from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has revealed. According to the report, the coronavirus pandemic is likely to influence migration flows into Europe considerably. However, the global crisis that has resulted from the coronavirus has made forecasting migration flows... 

When two countries who are supposed to be military allies fall out and almost get themselves into a shooting match, you know there’s going to be trouble ahead. The problem for NATO is, this time, it may prove terminal. For a story that involves high seas skullduggery, clandestine gun-running, a punch up between people who are supposed to be friends, and an incident that could be fatal for the world’s... 

At least 65 migrants drowned on Friday when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian coast after they had left Libya hoping to invade Europe, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said. The state-run Tunis Afrique Presse agency gave a death toll of at least 70 people. It was one the deadliest shipwrecks involving migrants trying to reach Europe this year. “This is a tragic and terrible... 

Three teenage migrants were charged in Malta with seizing control of a merchant ship and using force and intimidation against the crew, which is considered a terrorist crime under Maltese law. One of the accused was identified by the court as Abdalla Bari, a 19-year-old from Guinea. The other two are a 15-year-old from Guinea and a 16-year-old from Ivory Coast, who could not be named because they... 

The Arab who raped a Swedish child says he was looking for someone to rape that day, and he didn’t care if it was a child, news outlet Fria Tider reports. The 30-year-old Libyan who was charged with a brutal rape of a 9-year-old girl in Malmö earlier this year was sentenced by the District Court for aggravated rape of a child on Friday. The penalty will be six years imprisonment and expulsion,... 

The last fully operational fake charity invasion taxi ship, the Aquarius, has had its operations finally cancelled and there are no longer any major pro-invasion vessels picking up Africans off the Libyan coast and shuttling them to Europe. In a statement released by the “Doctors Without Borders/SOS Méditerranée” (MSF) organization in Europe, the termination of the Aquarius’s work was blamed... 

The approximately 100 nonwhite invaders who failed in their attempt to invade Europe from Libya and were picked up from their sinking boat by a passing container ship going to back to North Africa, have been forced ashore by Libyan police after refusing to disembark. According to a report in the Information Nigeria news service, the violent invaders had occupied the lower decks, forcing the captain... 

The ancient amphitheater of the city of Sabratha — considered a “jewel of the Roman Empire” — is scarred by bullets and littered with shell casings from roving smugglers and illegal immigrants, the French outlet AFP reported. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) listed the historic site — located in Libya — as “in danger” in 2016. The amphitheater... 

Aid groups MSF and SOS Méditerranée have said that the migrant rescue ship Aquarius was seeking help for 11 migrants they recovered off Libya after refusing to return them to the north African country. The vessel claimed to have saved ten men and an unaccompanied minor from a sinking boat after attempting to alert Libya’s coastguard who had requested they bring them to one of their patrol vessels. The... 

Since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has turned into a transit point, through which 650,000 refugees have already reached Italy from Africa. Sputnik political observer Sergei Gashkov takes a look at the situation in the conflict-ridden North African nation and its impact on Europe. In Rome, the responsibility for the influx of migrants is laid on France, which persuaded NATO countries... 

67 Africans trying to invade Europe via the Mediterranean Sea have been landed and arrested in Italy after launching a mutiny and threatening their white rescuers with violence—because they thought they were being taken back to Africa, Italian media have reported. The Africans were picked up off the Libyan coast by the private supply vessel Vos Thalassa over the past weekend after their invasion... 

Italy has said it will give ships and equipment to the Libyan Coast Guard to help it intercept and bring migrants back home. Italy’s government has announced Monday it will provide 10 motor launches and two ships, as well as an unspecified amount of equipment and other material, to the Libyan Coast Guard service, in order to increase its capacity to intercept and bring back illegal migrants... 

U.S. President Donald Trump has cancelled next month’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. He has just missed a unique occasion that happens only once in 50-100 years. Trump might just be the world’s dumbest president ever. He missed a change to denuclearize North Korea and make it give up willingly. Kim Jong Un was willing to give up his nukes, open the world and so on but Trump’s... 

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has urged the UK to not intervene in the Syrian conflict, claiming it will only spread “chaos” in the region and benefit Islamic State terrorists. Whilst making it clear he regards President Bashar al-Assad as a “bad guy”, Mr. Farage compared Syria to Libya and Iraq to argue that the removal of Arab tyrants usually leaves a power vacuum that even worse forces... 

At least 10,000 Africans pretending to be refugees will get a free ride across the Mediterranean straight to Europe courtesy of the European Union in the next few months, the Italian government has announced. The free ride—a reward given to the Africans for making it as far as Libya—forms part of the EU’s attempt to “address the deteriorating conditions in Libya, where thousands of people...