The Latest Breaking News from Libya

Poverty drove young men from small Kashmir town to board ill-fated fishing trawler, say families

Dozens of migrants who packed a fishing vessel that sank off Greece last week came from impoverished farming communities in Egypt’s Nile Delta

The Mediterranean route between Libya and Italy has been described as the “world’s most dangerous maritime crossing”. This was proven once again last week in the tragic shipwreck of a boat full of men, women and children, around 50 miles away from the southern Greek town of Pylos.

Suspected people smugglers to appear in court in Kalamata, as police in Kashmir announce 10 arrests

A Greek news web site has published excerpts from the depositions of two survivors of Wednesday's deadly shipwreck off southwestern Greece

Hundreds are feared dead after an overloaded fishing boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy capsized and sank on Wednesday off the coast of southern Greece. 

A lawyer says the son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is suffering deteriorating health during the second week of a hunger strike

Four men and a 14-year-old boy from the Sheikhi family set out for Europe

As family members arrive in Kalamata, search operation continues with negligible progress

Absence of unified Libyan national government leaves Europe lacking effective allies to tackle people-smuggling trade

Sinking off the coast of Greece of boat en route from Libya to Italy once more draws attention to dangerous waters people routinely attempt to navigate in pursuit of a better life