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Dozens of migrants killed in Libyan airstrike

News and issues making the headlines each day.

The UN has condemned an airstrike on a detention central close to the capital. Dozens have been killed. The UN-recognised government blamed the airstrike on the Libyan National Army, which is loyal to the renegade general, Khalifa Haftar. His forces have denied they were involved in the attack.

Also in the programme: EU leaders choose German defence minister to be next leader; and there have been protests in Israel after an undercover policeman shot dead an unarmed Israeli of Ethiopian descent.The UN has condemned an airstrike on a detention central close to the capital. Dozens have been killed.

Photo: Migrants carry the remains of their belongings from among rubble at a detention centre for mainly African migrants that was hit by an airstrike in the Tajoura suburb of the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Credit: Reuters/Ismail Zitouny

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  • Wed 3 Jul 2019 09:06GMT

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