"Pakistan sörjer minst 300 personer som sägs ha omkommit på Medelhavet förra veckan. Det är fortsatt svårt att säga exakt hur många som drunknade när en överfylld migrantbåt sjönk utanför Grekland."
Se även https://www.collettiva.it/copertine/internazionale/2023/06/16/podcast/strage-migranti-mai-fatalita-3158675/ : i moltiplicano le testimonianze e i video che confermerebbero l'ipotesi di un colpevole ritardo degli interventi della Guardia costiera greca durante l'affondamento del barcone con a bordo circa 750 migranti al largo delle coste del Peloponneso lo scorso 13 giugno.
"Tämän vuoden aikana noin 72 000 pakolaista ja siirtolaista on YK:n tilaston mukaan tullut Välimeren maihin Italiaan, Espanjaan, Kreikkaan, Maltalle ja Kyprokselle." (HS 14.6.: "Kymmeniä siirtolaisia hukkui matkalla Libyasta Italiaan Kreikka on julistanut kolmen päivän suruajan onnettomuuden vuoksi."
The utility and limitations of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are once again apparent in Libya’s civil war. Both the Libyan National Army (LNA) and the Government of National Accord (GNA) are ‘operating’ and receiving external support with UAVs for the purposes of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and ground attack in the fighting on the outskirts of Libya’s capital, Tripoli.
A MiG-29 fighter jet, allegedly owned by Russian state-sponsored private military contractors, has been shot down in Libya. A MiG-29 (NATO reporting name -
Western governments have watched the battle over Libya’s capital, Tripoli, with disinterest, even as it has drawn in a growing number of foreign powers.
Western governments have watched the battle over Libya’s capital, Tripoli, with disinterest, even as it has drawn in a growing number of foreign powers.
On August 5, Libyan sources shared images claiming to show an advanced S-300 long-range air-defense system in Libya.
The photos were supposedly taken near the town of Ras Lauf, a key oil export port controlled by the Libyan National Army (LNA). The town is located more than 200 km to the east of the town of Sirte, where LNA forces are preparing for an attack by Turkish-backed forces loyal to the Government of National Accord (GNA)
U.S. Africa Command has mounting evidence that Russia, through the Wagner Group, continues to position military equipment in Libya capable of conducting kinetic operations there.
Egypt and Turkey edged closer to the possibility of armed conflict this week over Libya, with both sides preparing for an impending battle over a key city.
The Libyan National Army (LNA) has claimed that Turkish-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being used to carry out attacks against the forces it has deployed to capture Tripoli from forces aligned with the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA).
The media department for the militias defending Libya’s capital city released photographs on 30 April that showed a Russian-made unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that had been recovered.
The presence of Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Libya has seemingly been confirmed by footage showing what appeared to be a Bayraktar TB2 at an airport that could be identified as Mitiga in Tripoli.
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by Vijay Prashad
The war on Libya in 2010 was Hillary Clinton’s most powerful experience. When the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi was killed on the outskirts of Sirte, she said: “We came, we saw, he died.” It was a callous display of U.S. power. It is a window to how Hillary Clinton would govern as President: with an iron fist against any challenge to U.S. power.
China and Russia, for Rubio and Hillary Clinton, are living threats. “A gangster in Moscow is not just threatening Europe,” Rubio said colourfully last year, but “he’s threatening to destroy and divide NATO.” Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, had compared Vladimir Putin to Adolph Hitler. The establishment is pledged to push back against Russia. There is wide consensus on that.
By Peter Lee on November 24, 2015 in Asia Times News & Features: "the alleged and now reportedly deceased architect of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, did not fight “for IS.” He fought “with” Katibat al-Battar al-Libi, a Libyan outfit whose presence in Syria predates that of ISIS. Even after Katibat al-Battar al-Libi decided to pledge allegiance to ISIS, it retained its independent identity. And it would appear unlikely that Abaaoud, as a European of Moroccan descent, would be a central figure in the brigade, whose personnel, funding, and mission seem to have largely emanated from Libya"
Klaus Ernst, Vorsitzender der Partei die Linke: "Ich halte es für fatal, dass sich ausgerechnet Frankreich für Verschärfungen gegenüber Libyen einsetzt und hervortut, während gleichzeitig die Flieger, die in Libyen die eigene Bevölkerung bombardieren, aus
John Keane to David Held: "do you think the LSE Libya affair has done damage to the scholarly credibility of research programmes in the area of democracy?" "I don’t know how many times you visited Libya or to what extent your consociation with Saif al-Isl
Mireille Fanon-Mendès-France : "Contre les aspirations des peuples, la porte pour de nouvelles relations internationales basées sur la loi du plus fort est enfin grande ouverte… Le monde entre dans l’oeil du cyclone qui pourrait se transformer en guerre."