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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10380

18 May 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
14,000 refugees in Europe since start of war in Libya

Brussels, 17/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - Some 14,000 people fleeing Libya have arrived in Malta or Italy since the start of the fighting, the spokeswoman for the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Melissa Fleming has said, according to AFP. UNHCR staff on the ground have reported that hundreds of people, who initially had fled to Tunisia or Egypt, had returned to Libya to board vessels to take them to Europe. “Among their number are refugees, including Somalis, Eritreans and...

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