Tomas Statius News Today

Overcrowded detention centres, beatings and ransom, and the occasional killing out at sea – meet the Libyan militia pulling back refugees in the Central Mediterranean

A shadowy militia knee-deep in human smuggling keeps pulling migrants back to Libya from the Maltese SAR, detaining them until a smuggler buys their freedom • Both Malta and Frontex have given coordinates to this militia

A look into how journalists verified a recording of a Maltese AFM official passing on migrant coordinates to a Libyan militia

The unprecedented declassification of French nuclear archives sheds light upon the nuclear tests in Algeria circa 1960.

Frontex has repeatedly been accused of practising illegal pushbacks of refugees after they make it across EU borders

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