IT WAS another fraught weekend for refugees attempting to reach Europe by sea and for the activists trying to help them.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) confirmed on Sunday that the Libyan Coastguard returned 227 people to Tripoli in the early hours.
The survivors had fled in three rubber boats from Zawyia and Zwara, the UNHCR said, whose medics tended to the refugees upon disembarkation.

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Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated

Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike