By Mirko Miorelli ROME, June 5 (Reuters) - Italy appealed on Friday for the release of two Italian pro-Palestinian campaigners detained in eastern Libya who, along with eight other activists, had been ...

At least 990 refugees and migrants have died this year while attempting the perilous journey across the Mediterranean.

About 48 people rescued alive after vessel reportedly left Libya carrying about 60 passengers ...

ROME (AP) — Italian police arrested a Libyan warlord on a warrant from the International Criminal Court, but an Italian tribunal refused to approve the arrest and he was instead sent back to Libya, ...

Italy’s coast guard says a patrol boat has recovered the bodies of 10 people after a fishing vessel rescued some 48 migrants from a craft that capsized near Malta.

Libya’s Ambassador to Italy, Mohannad Younes, held talks with Italian archaeologist Professor Savino Di Lernia regarding the ...

The Americans thought they had figured out how to reconcile the two clans that divide Libya between the west and the east.

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(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 27 - Six Italians who were part of a group of Global Sumud activists who say they were roughed on Monday ...

Their families do not know whether they are being kept in detention camps or traffickers’ hideouts in Libya or drowned in the Mediterranean during perilous journeys to Europe.

Italy is urging the release of two Italian pro-Palestinian activists detained in Libya, along with eight others, who are on a ...