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The controversial policy, it is feared, may influence more people to cross the Mediterranean and seek asylum in European countries.

Libya's internationally recognized prime minister, Abdullah al-Thinni, said Tuesday he had survived an assassination attempt after leaving a session of the anarchic country's elected parliament.

Mohamed El Harari, a spokesman for Tripoli-based state oil firm NOC, said the Libyan tanker Anwar Afriqya had been carrying fuel for Sirte's power plant.

Pictures posted online overnight by the group's supporters showed fighters raising a flag over Syria's historic city of Palmyra.

Among the 300 pages of private emails released on Friday are messages relating to the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Emails exchanged by Hillary Clinton and Sidney Blumenthal show that the latter had obtained information about unrest in Libya through “sensitive sources."

A focus group took issue with Clinton's campaign strategy in Iowa, but say there's no real alternative.

The 22-year-old Moroccan man, identified as Touil Abdel Majeed, had arrived in the Sicilian port of Porto Empedocle along with 90 other migrants.

Algerian troops ambushed and killed at least 22 militants allied to Islamic State as they held a meeting east of the capital on Tuesday in one of country's largest military operations in recent years, the defense ministry and a security source said.

The naval mission, once approved by the U.N., would allow the destruction of traffickers’ boats.

The United States and United Nations expressed deep concern on Monday about the death sentences handed down in Egypt for President Mohamed Mursi and other Islamists, while Turkey warned of Middle East turmoil if they are carried out.

Almost 3,600 migrants have been rescued from overcrowded boats sailing from Africa to Europe over the past 48 hours, Italy said on Thursday, with sea conditions seen as perfect for attempting the crossing.

In a rare audio statement released Thursday, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on all Muslims to fight a war in which the "Islamic State is merely the spearhead."

The U.S. secretary of state traveled to Turkey, where NATO ministers also were to discuss instability in Syria and Iraq.

The third officer on the Cook Islands-flagged ship died and other crew members were wounded in the attacks.

The proposal comes at a time when migrant flow from North Africa, especially Libya, is increasing by the month.

The latest Amnesty International report finds that the country's worsening situation has helped "people smugglers" step up their trade.

The European Union's 28 member nations would be required to share the responsibility of housing thousands of refugees.

Saadi Gadhafi faces charges of killing a soccer player and unlawful imprisonment.

Russia said that Europe should model its planned operations to tackle migrant smuggling across the Mediterranean from Libya on anti-piracy patrols in waters off Somalia, but that it would be too extreme to destroy the boats used.

The U.S. State Department has deemed it "not acceptable" for staff to conduct official business on a private email server as presidential contender Hillary Clinton did when she was secretary of state, a senior department official told senators on Wednesday.