Travelers wait behind the police tape at the Gare du Nord train station, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023 in Paris. French media are reporting that people have been stabbed at a Paris train station and the interior minister says several people were injured before police "rapidly neutralized" the attacker. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)The Paris prosecutor said investigators haven't yet been able to identify the attacker who wounded six people with a sharp metallic hook in the French capital's Gare du Nord train station on Wednesday before being shot and wounded by police. According to Beccuau’s statement, the preliminary investigation found that the suspect threw himself upon a man in front of the train station, stabbing him about 20 times. The assailant then entered the station and attacked four civilians and a police officer, French media reports said.

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La nave Ong Ocean Viking carrying 37 shipwrecked people (including 12 minors) rescued off the coast of Libya, has docked at the port of Ancona in Italy, where the modules for the initial reception of migrants are set up, Italian media reported. The buses that will have to transport the migrants to their destination locations and a team of doctors from the Ministry of Health have arrived. Various banners with writings in support of migrants they were exhibited in a lookout near the port. “Welcome”, “No to the criminalization of NGOs”, “No border, no nation” the inscriptions, flanked by the signs of the ‘welcoming cities’. Previously there were sit-ins in front of the Teatro delle Muse, which is located at the entrance to the port, and in front of the Court of Ancona.

The Greek Foreign Ministry has reiterated Greece’s readiness for negotiations with the Libyan government that will emerge after elections are held there on the delimitation of the maritime zones, based on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Greek Ekathimerini newspaper reported. The Foreign Ministry conveyed Athens’ intentions in a verbal notice delivered to the Libyan Embassy, refuting the unsubstantiated allegations made by the Tripoli government’s openly pro-Turkish Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and his associates concerning the “illegal” actions of the Sanco Swift, the vessel carrying out seismic surveys south of the Peloponnese and west and southwest of Crete. However, diplomatic sources said the verbal note reminded Tripoli that the two illegal and unsubstantiated memoranda of understanding it has signed with Turkey (November 2019 and October 2022) are in flagrant violation of fundamental provisions of UNCLOS, which also reflect rules of customary international law. It added that these memoranda ignore and violate Greece’s sovereign rights over its continental shelf, as well as its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over its exclusive economic zone. The Tripoli Court of Appeal ruled to suspend implementation of the memorandum of understanding signed between Turkey and the Libyan Government of National Unity regarding oil and gas exploration, according to local media.

A Libyan court has suspended a deal for offshore oil and gas exploration that Libya and Turkey inked last year, a deal that sparked outrage from neighbors Egypt and Greece. The deal concerned waters that Libya and Turkey have declared to be theirs but that are disputed by Egypt and Greece, Reuters noted in a report on the news that cited an unnamed source. The Libyan government can appeal the ruling, the source also told Reuters. ADVERTISEMENTThe official noted, then, that the deal is only between Libya and Turkey, "two sovereign countries -- it's win-win for both, and other countries have no right to interfere". The potential of the region has become particularly relevant now when Europe is looking for new sources of gas.

A Libyan court suspended an energy exploration deal that the Tripoli government signed last year with Turkey, a judiciary source said, pausing an agreement that angered other Mediterranean powers and inflamed Libya's internal crisis. The agreement had included scope for oil and gas exploitation in waters that Ankara and Tripoli have declared as their own, which are clearly in Egypt and Greece EEZ zones. The deal had spurred rivalry in the eastern Mediterranean and played into a political standoff in Libya between the Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli, in western Libya, and an eastern-based parliament that rejects its legitimacy. Turkey sent military aid to Tripoli in 2019 to help the then internationally recognised government there ward off an assault on the capital by eastern forces in the civil war, which Egypt backed. Later that year, Ankara and Tripoli struck a deal to establish a maritime boundary in eastern Mediterranean waters also disputed by Egypt and Turkey's historic rival Greece, prompting both those countries to reject the agreement.

The Greek Foreign Affairs Ministry delivered a note verbale to the Libyan embassy in Athens, refuting claims of ‘illegal’ actions by seismic research vessel ‘Sanco Swift’, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. According to the ministry, the maritime research south of the Peloponnese and southwest of Crete is carried out in regions of Greek jurisdiction, according to the rules of the international law of the sea. The coordinates of the regions where research is taking place are accessible to all interested parties through relevant Navtex announcements. In addition, the Greek ministry underlines that these illegal memorandums ignore and volate Greece’s sovereign rights over its continental shelf, as well as its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the Exclusive Economic Zone. Thanks for reading Hellenic News of America Subscribe to HNASOURCE; ANA-MPA

A Libyan Court, on Monday, suspended an energy exploration deal that the Tripoli government signed last year with Turkiye, a judiciary source said, thus pausing an agreement that angered other Mediterranean powers and inflamed Libya's own internal crisis, Reuters reports. The deal had spurred rivalry in the eastern Mediterranean and played into a political standoff in Libya between the Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli, in western Libya, and an eastern-based Parliament which rejects its legitimacy. READ: Turkiye, Libya sign agreements on hydrocarbon, gasLater that year, Ankara and Tripoli struck a deal to establish a maritime boundary in eastern Mediterranean waters, also disputed by Egypt and Turkey's historic rival Greece, prompting both those countries to reject the agreement. It has maintained close ties with Turkiye and, in October, struck the preliminary deal on energy exploration that the court suspended on Monday. Libya, the third largest oil producer in North Africa, has been in chaos since a NATO-backed uprising ousted autocrat, Muammar Gaddafi, in 2011.

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Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh held talks on Tuesday with the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), Saddek Elkaber, at the bank’s Tripoli headquarters to discuss government spending for the year 2022, according to a statement by CBL. The two also reviewed “steps to be taken for the current year to increase disclosure and transparency, as well as the need to ensure fair distribution of development projects,” as per CBL’s statement.

The Tripoli Court of Appeal ruled to suspend implementation of the memorandum of understanding signed between Turkey and the Libyan Government of National Unity regarding oil and gas exploration, according to local media. In early October 2022, the Tripoli-based government and Turkey signed today two memorandum of understandings on hydrocarbons. The deal is based on an maritime border deal signed between the two countries three years ago. The European Union have declared that Turkey’s agreement with Libya is “against Law of the Sea and infringes on third states’ rights.”

Speaking through an interpreter, the suspect in court for the brief hearing in the eastern Dutch city of Zwolle told judges that he was a victim of mistaken identity. Prosecutors believe he is Tewelde Goitom and say they have witnesses who have identified him. The Dutch national forensics lab is carrying out an investigation to confirm his identity. Dutch prosecutors say they have jurisdiction to put him on trial because some of his alleged crimes happened in the Netherlands. The suspect's Dutch lawyer, Richard van der Weide, told judges he would likely challenge the court's jurisdiction at a later hearing.

Russia still has forces in Libya to support the LNA in eastern Libya. Combat in Libya has largely disappeared because of the stalemate imposed by the Turkish occupation forces. Not what Libya produces, but potential underwater deposits in waters between Libya and Turkey. There is no united government of Libya so the GNU could not pledge Libya to support the Turkish claims. Before the discovery of oil, Libya was a very poor country, or just a region, with far fewer people, a status it had maintained for thousands of years.

The head of Libya’s Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Menfi, could have a meeting with Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al Sisi, during his ongoing visit to Cairo, Italian news agency Nova reports citing unnamed Egyptian sources. In the past few days, Cairo has been the scene for several encounters between Libya’s rival parties. Yesterday, Menfi held a meeting in Cairo with General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. “It would have been better not to exclude anyone from these negotiations”. The same sources reportedly said that Egypt will not change its position on the question of the demarcation of the maritime borders between Egypt and Libya.

TRIPOLI, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that 1,067 migrants were rescued and returned to Libya in the past week. "In the period of 1-7 January, 1,067 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya," IOM said in a statement. The rescued migrants included 53 women and 10 children, it added. In 2022, 24,684 migrants were rescued and returned to Libya, the IOM revealed, adding 525 migrants died and 848 others went missing off the Libyan coast on the Central Mediterranean route. Rescued migrants usually end up inside overcrowded reception centers across Libya, despite repeated international calls to close them and release the migrants.