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WORLD NEWS Saturday 6 July 2019

UN condemns attack on migrants, calls for Libyan cease-fire

By EDITH M. LEDERER nearby militia position and
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The denies striking the hangar
U.N. Security Council on Fri- where the migrants were
day called on Libya's war- being held. U.N. human
ring parties to urgently de- rights chief Michelle Bach-
escalate fighting and com- elet said the attack might
mit to a cease-fire, and it amount to a war crime.
condemned a deadly at- In Friday's statement, the
tack on a detention center council expressed "deep
for migrants near the capi- concern" at the worsen-
tal Tripoli. ing humanitarian situation
The U.N.'s most powerful in Libya and at conditions
body also called on the in detention centers it said
parties to rapidly return to "are the responsibility of the
U.N.-mediated political Libyan government."
talks. A civil war in Libya in 2011
The council press statement toppled and later killed
was the first approved by longtime dictator Moam-
all 15 members since self- mar Gadhafi. In the chaos
styled Libyan National that followed, the oil-rich
Army leader, Field Marshal North African country was
Khalifa Hifter, launched a divided.
military offensive on April Hifter launched his offen-
4 aimed at taking Tripoli, sive days before a national
though it had previously conference of all Libyan
issued weaker press "ele- Debris covers the ground after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura, east of Tripoli in Libya, parties aimed at agreeing
ments." late Tuesday, July 2, 2019. on elections for a new gov-
The statement was spurred Associated Press ernment was scheduled to
by Tuesday night's airstrike begin — and despite his
on the detention center in The Security Council held tack. by an array of militias and commitments to move to-
Tajoura, which the council emergency closed consul- A U.N.-supported, but weak armed groups fighting over ward elections.
said killed 53 people and tations Wednesday after- government controls Tripoli, resources and territory. He has received support
injured over 130 others. noon, but diplomats said overseeing the country's The Tripoli-based govern- from Egypt, France, the
The International Organiza- then that the United States west, while a rival govern- ment blamed Hifter's LNA United Arab Emirates, Saudi
tion for Migration said Fri- needed additional time to ment aligned with Hifter and its foreign backers for Arabia and Russia and says
day that six children were consider the text of a state- controls much of the east the airstrike. The LNA, for he is determined to restore
among those killed. ment condemning the at- and south. Each is backed its part, says it targeted a stability to Libya. q

German official says CO2 charge should benefit the poor

By FRANK JORDANS Several other countries al- commuters and tenants,"
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's ready have or plan to intro- said Svenja Schulze, Ger-
environment minister said duce such a tax, including many's environment minis-
Friday that a proposed France, Britain and much of ter.
charge on carbon emis- Scandinavia. Experts says Speaking at the presen-
sions should benefit people that a surcharge for car- tation of three indepen-
on low incomes and those bon dioxide emissions can dent expert studies com-
who use less fossil fuel, amid encourage people to use missioned by her office,
concern that measures less fuel, but risks hitting the Schulze insisted the funds
aimed at curbing climate poor more heavily than the generated from a carbon
change could stoke social rich. Plans to raise fuel duty charge on transport and
unrest. in France contributed to heating fuel would be re-
The German government months of anti-government distributed again.
is debating whether to put protests by workers fearing At the same time, citizens
a price on carbon to help financial hardship. — including children —
meet national targets for "It's really important to me would get up to 100 euros
cutting man-made green- to avoid unfairly burdening ($112.88) each back per
house gas emissions, which those with low and medium year, resulting in a net in- Picture taken Oct.31, 2018 shows cars queuing in a traffic jam
when commuting to Frankfurt, Germany.
are blamed for global incomes, and especially come gain for low-earners Associated Press
warming. affected groups such as and families.q