The Libyan coast guard says it has intercepted about 400 Europe-bound migrants off the Mediterranean coast.

Shocking claims by a leading medical charity that an EU migrant sea rescue operation, in which an Irish naval vessel is participating in, is helping the Libyan coastguard return migrants to camps for torture, rape and murder, must be “taken very seriously”, the leader of Fianna Fáil said today.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been handed preliminary charges over allegations he took millions of euros in illegal campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has reportedly been placed in police custody.

A number of people have been arrested in Brussels after police officers were attacked on the margins of a protest over the recent revelations of migrant slave markets in Libya.

The Libyan parliament has voted in favour of a new United Nations action plan, which is aimed at giving new life to stalled political talks and healing the country's deep divisions.

It comes as nearly 600 people are rescued from the Mediterranean in the past week.

Some 600 migrants rescued at sea arrived on Friday in Sicily.

More than 90 people have been killed in weeks of fighting between Libyan militias in the city of Sabratha.

An estimated 100 migrants are missing after a shipwreck off Libya’s west coast, the country’s coast guard said.

The head of an international court has today renewed her call for the arrest of a Libyan military officer alleged to have been involved in the killing of 33 captives "in cold blood".

The UN envoy to Libya has condemned a suspected militia attack on an air base in the country's south that reportedly killed at least 60 soldiers and civilians and wounded dozens more.

The German government said a "request list" from Libya's coastguard also includes ambulances, communications equipment and night vision gear.

Crude headed for its longest run of gains this year as Libya’s biggest oil field suffered another outage while Russia signalled it is weighing an extension of Opec-led production cuts.

Hundreds of migrants are feared to have died off the coast of Libya after five bodies were found near two capsized boats

A Spanish aid organisation says it has recovered five bodies from waters off the Libyan coast and fears that at least 240 migrants could have died after two boats capsized in the Mediterranean.

Five people smugglers have been charged by Italian prosecutors with aiding and abetting the murder of more than 200 migrants as a result of evidence provided by the captain and crew of an Irish Naval service ship.

Two Libyan men have appeared in court in Malta on charges of hijacking a domestic Libyan flight to the Mediterranean island.

According to the Malta Prime Minister the last of the passengers and crew members, along with the hijackers have left the plane.

The last buildings occupied by Islamic State militants in Sirte have fallen into the hands of Libyan fighters, officials said, as anti-IS fighters celebrated in the streets of the final IS stronghold in Libya.

Update at 10.15pm: Three foreign workers, including two Italians, have been kidnapped in south-west Libya, officials have said.

Thousands of migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast by Italian naval ships and vessels from non-government groups today.

The Libyan parliament has approved a no-confidence motion in the country's UN-backed government.

Twenty-three people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide car bombing in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, according to a hospital official.

The United States has launched multiple air strikes against Islamic State militants in Libya, opening a new, more persistent front against the group at the request of the United Nations-backed government.

Navy officials in Italy have recovered 217 bodies from the hull of a migrant ship that sank off Libya last year in a tragedy which led to the EU beefing up Mediterranean rescue operations.

Amnesty International has published “horrifying” accounts by migrants of exploitation and abuse in Libya, including Christians who were abducted by Islamic State militants and forced into sexual slavery.

Amnesty International has published "horrifying" accounts by migrants of exploitation and abuse in Libya, including Christians who were abducted by Islamic State militants and forced into sexual slavery.

Libya's pro-government forces have seized control of the key port of Sirte from Islamic State, helped by British and American support.

A photograph of a drowned migrant baby in the arms of a German rescuer was distributed yesterday by a humanitarian organisation. 

The LÉ Róisín has rescued 123 people from a boat off the coast of Libya.

At least 20 refugees have died trying to reach Europe after their boat sank off the coast of Libya.

Irish navy vessel the LÉ Róisín has rescued nearly 300 refugees off the coast of Libya.

The United States and other world powers have said they are ready to supply Libya's internationally recognised government with weapons to counter the so-called 'Islamic State' group and other terrorists.

More than 400 migrants, mostly from Somalia, are reported to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea on a boat trip from Libya to Italy.

The value of the US and UK’s special relationship has been reaffirmed in the wake of Barack Obama’s criticism of David Cameron for his actions over Libya that allowed it to become a “shit show”.

The political and security vacuum in Libya is being exploited by the Islamic State extremist group which has "significantly expanded" the territory it controls in the conflict-torn nation, United Nations experts have said.

Deadly clashes between Tunisian forces and extremist attackers have left at least 53 people dead near Tunisia's border with Libya, the government said, amid growing fear that violence from Libya could destabilise the whole region.

A Libyan militia loyal to the Islamist-backed government in Tripoli says it has arrested the leader of the so-called 'Islamic State' branch for a western city bombed by US forces last week.