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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 4 July 2017
Europeans vow more help to stem Libya-Italy migrant flow

PARIS (AP) — France, Ger- organized crime rings have
many and the Europe- become internationalized
an Union pledged more and “trafficking for sexual
money Monday for Libya’s exploitation” appears to
coast guard and more sup- be increasing.
port for Italy to cope with A UNHCR-commissioned
a surge of migrant arrivals report released Monday
from Africa. found “about half of peo-
The U.N. refugee agency, ple who travel to Libya do
meanwhile, reported that so believing they can find
more and more people jobs there, but end up flee-
lured to Libya with the hope ing onwards to Europe to
of finding jobs there end up escape life-threatening in-
trying to reach Europe. security, instability, difficult
The intensified European economic conditions plus
effort comes after the U.N. widespread exploitation
High Commissioner for and abuse,” a news re-
Refugees, Filippo Grandi, lease said.
on Saturday decried an UNHCR says 84,830 mi-
“unfolding tragedy” in grants and refugees have
Italy over the weekend reached Italy’s shores so
with 12,600 migrants and far this year from Libya, a
refugees pouring onto its 19-percent increase from
shores. Grandi noted that Migrants stand on the deck of the Swedish Navy ship Bkv 002, as they wait to disembark in the a year earlier. Seven in 10
more than 2,000 people Sicilian harbor of Catania, Italy, Saturday, July 1, 2017. The Swedish ship carried 650 migrants, are economic migrants
have lost their lives on the rescued in various operations in the Mediterranean Sea, and the dead bodies of seven men and and the rest are “people in
Libya-to-Italy sea route this two women, authorities said. need of protection” like ref-
year. (Orietta Scardino/ANSA via AP) ugees and asylum-seekers.
Officials appeared to be Grandi, who is Italian, said interior ministers promised meeting in Paris on Sunday Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR
bracing for prospects of in a statement. Like many extra money and training after Italy pleaded for Euro- special envoy for the Cen-
an accelerated flow of others in his office in recent for the Libyan coast guard pean help amid the surge. tral Mediterranean, told re-
migrants as the Mediterra- months, Grandi repeated and efforts to reinforce Lib- Grandi’s office said Mon- porters in Geneva that the
nean weather warms, mak- calls for an “urgent distri- ya’s largely lawless south- day that people smuggling agency’s teams have in-
ing often-perilous maritime bution system” for incom- ern border that people and migrant flows in Libya dicated “no slowing down
journeys more attractive. ing migrants and refugees, smugglers exploit. No fur- were on the rise, and pre- on movement to Libya,
“We are only at the begin- and “additional legal path- ther details, including how dicted Europe could face which may mean that a
ning of the summer, and ways to admission.” much more money was a greater influx in the future. larger number of people
without swift collective ac- On Monday, the EU migra- pledged, were immediate- UNHCR said patterns of may continue to try to
tion, we can only expect tion commissioner and the ly provided. movement through Libya leave through the Central
more tragedies at sea,” German, French and Italian The officials held a crisis have been changing, as Mediterranean route.”q

British teen jailed for plotting London bomb attack

John concert on the 15th sives online from an extrem- said he was considering for potential locations, in-
anniversary of the Sept. 11 ist named “Abu Yusuf,” who targeting London’s busy cluding an Elton John con-
attacks. Haroon Syed, who was actually a series of Brit- Oxford Street shopping dis- cert in Hyde Park on Sept.
was arrested last year, had ish intelligence agents. He trict and searched online 11, 2016.q
admitted planning terror-
ist acts at an earlier court
hearing. Passing sentence
at London’s Central Crimi-
nal Court, judge Michael
Topolski said 19-year-old
Syed had been intent on
“carrying out an act of
mass murder in this coun-
This undated photo issued try.” Sentencing Syed to life
by the London Metropolitan with no chance of parole
Police shows British teenager for 16½ years, the judge
Haroon Syed, who has been
sentenced Monday July 3, said the young man had
2017, to a minimum period been “deeply committed
of 16 1/2 years in prison for to the ideology of a bru-
plotting terrorist acts. tal and barbaric organiza-
(Metropolitan Police via AP) tion that sought to hijack
LONDON (AP) — A British and corrupt an ancient
teenager was sentenced and venerable religion for
Monday to at least 16½ its own purposes” — the
years in prison for plotting a Islamic State group. Pros-
bombing whose potential ecutors said Syed tried to
targets included an Elton buy weapons and explo-