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There were as many as 750 migrants including women and children on the boat that sank off Greece in one of the deepest parts of the Mediterranean Sea

Gabon’s strongman president, Ali Bongo, is barely clinging to power after contested elections, a stroke and a coup attempt. The Bongo family has run this stable central African nation for 52 years.

The prime ministers of Italy and Greece on Tuesday joined a growing number of foreign leaders visiting Libya as it seeks to end a decade of post-revolution chaos under a UN-sponsored peace process. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, whose country was the former colonial power in the North African state, held talks in the capital Tripoli, making his first trip abroad since taking office in mid-February. “This is a unique moment for Libya” with a new unity government in place, Draghi told a...