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Pakistan moves to charge traffickers with money laundering over Greece boat tragedy

Pakistan has decided to charge the suspected human traffickers involved in last month's shipwreck off the coast of Greece under the country's anti-money laundering law, an official statement said on Monday, Anadolu Agency reports. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), which is investigating the gory incident in which some 350 Pakistanis were among over 800 onboard a fishing trawler that sank, said in a statement that the passports of the suspected traffickers will […]

today4 July 2023

International

Boat carrying 200 migrants sinks off Lebanon’s coast

A boat carrying 200 would-be migrants sank off Lebanon's coast on Saturday, according to the military, Anadolu reports. The army said naval forces headed to the site of the sinking, off the coast of Selaata, north of Beirut, and proceeded to rescue the migrants. It, however, did not provide details about their nationalities. The statement said the boat was carrying people trying to illegally cross the Lebanese territorial waters. In September, […]

today1 January 2023

International News

Scores missing in Yemen after boat sinks en route to remote island

Nearly 60 people are missing five days after a ship sank off Yemen's remote Socotra island, its fisheries minister said on Wednesday, with state media reporting that only two people had been rescued. The boat went missing five days ago while heading from Yemen's southeastern port city of Mukalla towards Socotra with some 60 people on board, among them women and children, fisheries minister Fahd Kavieen said. Socotra lies in […]

today7 December 2016

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