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Egypt, Italy Hold High-Level Phone Call
Sada Elbalad
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July 27, 2025
Mon 28 Jul 2025 | 01:49 AM Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Migration Badr Abdelatty held a telephone conversation on Sunday with Antonio Tajani, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs to discuss critical...
NYT Editors Knew That Photo Was Deceptive
Hot Air
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August 4, 2025
The New York Times ran a photo on its front page that was a visual lie. The point of that lie was to back the claims made in their article that Israel was intentionally starving Gazan children, but apparently, there were no photos available that...
bp announces hydrocarbon discovery at Bumerangue exploration well, offshore Brazil
Hellenic Shipping News
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August 4, 2025
bp drilled exploration well 1-BP-13-SPS at the Bumerangue block, located in the Santos Basin, 404 kilometres (218 nautical miles) from Rio de Janeiro, in a water depth of 2,372 metres. The well was drilled to a total depth of 5,855 metres. The...
Okpebholo unveils plans to reintegrate trafficked youths, tame irregular migration
The Sun Nigeria
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August 4, 2025
From Tony Osauzo, Benin Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has reiterated his administration’s commitment to eradicate irregular migration, human trafficking, and the associated human rights abuses that have long plagued the State. The...
From war zones to Greek detention: African migrants face 'invasion' counter measures
Business Insider Africa
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July 30, 2025
With thousands of people arriving on its beaches, many of whom are fleeing war-torn African countries, the country has taken more strict measures, raising concerns about how those seeking sanctuary are treated. The Greek migrant minister used...
BP Reports Major Find Offshore Brazil, Brings Argos Tieback Online
Journal of Petroleum Technology
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August 4, 2025
BP announced its largest discovery in a quarter century and first oil at one of its deepwater projects on 4 August. BP’s deepwater Bumerangue prospect offshore Brazil found an estimated 500-m gross hydrocarbon column, while in the Gulf of America,...
bp Makes Oil & Gas Discovery Offshore Brazil
Offshore Source - Florida
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bp drilled exploration well 1-BP-13-SPS at the Bumerangue block, located in the Santos Basin, 404 kilometers (218 nautical miles) from Rio de Janeiro, in a water depth of 2,372 meters. The well was drilled to a total depth of 5,855 meters. The...
At Least 18 Migrants Dead, 50 Missing After Boat Sinks Off Libya’s Coast
Famagusta Gazette
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July 30, 2025
FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE — A migrant vessel carrying dozens of people sank over the weekend off the coast of Tobruk, a port city near Libya’s eastern border with Egypt. The International Organization for Migration said Tuesday that at least 18 migrants...
Voluntary return of Nigerien migrants to home country at center of Libyan-Nigerien meeting
Panapress
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July 30, 2025
30 july 2025 - 14:19:36 BBA/WA 376 Views Panafrican News Agency Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The acting Libyan Minister of the Interior of the Government of National Unity, Major-General Imad Mustafa al-Trabelsi, has discussed the issue of illegal...
Shipwreck Off Libya Kills 18, 50 Missing
News Central TV
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July 30, 2025
At least 18 migrants lost their lives in a shipwreck off the coast of Tobruk in eastern Libya over the weekend, with 50 others still unaccounted for, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday, citing available reports....
Airline ticket tax: Tunisia among cheapest African countries
African Manager
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July 30, 2025
Why does traveling to Africa often cost more than elsewhere? And above all, which countries on the continent impose the highest airport taxes… and which spare their travelers the most? To answer these questions, the African Airlines Association...
Kuwaiti European Centre cooperation protocol for “Creating a Libyan Cadre” initiative to train 26,000 Libyan job seekers discussed
Libya Herald
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July 30, 2025
The Minister of Labour and Rehabilitation in the eastern based Libyan government, Abdullah Arhuma, discussed the details of the proposed cooperation protocol with the Kuwaiti European Centre for Administrative and Educational Consulting, as part...
Justice minister draws fire after alleging opposition sides with Turkey over Israel
Kathimerini
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POLITICS Tensions flared in Greece’s parliament on Wednesday after Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis accused opposition parties of undermining the country’s alliance with Israel and siding with regional rival Turkey. Speaking during a debate on...
Neofascism, imperialism, war and revolution in the Middle East
LINKS
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July 30, 2025
First published at New Politics. Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon and has lived and taught in Paris, Berlin, and London. He is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of London. His many books include The Clash of Barbarisms (2002, 2006); Perilous...
Libya Detains 1,500 Undocumented Migrants in Tripoli Raid Amid Mounting Migration Pressures
teleSUR
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July 27, 2025 Hour: 3:06 pm Libyan authorities detained approximately 1,500 undocumented migrant workers during a large-scale raid on informal settlements east of Tripoli on Saturday, exposing the precarious living conditions of foreign laborers...
Freeze Libya’s financial transactions to end migration blackmail
Kathimerini
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Clothes belonging to migrants and refugees who crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Greece hang on an iron fence to dry at Karave port on the island of Gavdos, south of Crete, on July 7. [AP] One way for the EU to escape from Khalifa...
Libya plans new standards for scientific journals
The Libya Observer
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Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Omran Al-Qeeb, met on Sunday with the National Programme for the Development of Scientific Journals to discuss the second phase of Libya’s journal classification standards. According to a...
World News in Brief: remember Dr. David Nabarro, fatal shipwreck off Libya, verdict in the murder of the helmet
The European Times
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July 30, 2025
The British doctor and champion of global public health died last weekend at the age of 75. He was the World Health Organization (WHO) Special envoy dealing with COVID 19 crisis. Service inheritance “The secretary general pays tribute to the...
18 Dead, 50 Missing As Migrant Boat Sinks Off Libyan Coast
MENAFN
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July 30, 2025
(MENAFN- Pajhwok Afghan News) KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 18 migrants have died and around 50 others are missing after a boat sank off the coast of eastern Libya, a media report said on Wednesday. Reuters, citing the International Organization for...
Breaking it Down with Barron: The New York City Mayoral Race, New York City Politics, and a Primer for an Independent Black Revolutionary Polity
Black Agenda Report
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Charles Barron dissects the NYC mayoral race, Mamdani’s struggles with Black voters, and why an independent Black radical politics is essential to confront a broken system. Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to chop it up with the venerable and...