Fifty-three migrants dead or missing after boat capsizes off Libya, IOM says

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39% : One survivor reported losing her husband, while the other said she lost her two babies in the tragedy," the IOM said. More than 1,300 migrants have gone missing in the central Mediterranean so far in 2025, according to the UN agency.
39% : Several countries, including Britain, Spain, Norway and Sierra Leone, urged Libya at a UN meeting in Geneva in November to shut down detention centres where rights groups say migrants and refugees have been tortured, abused and sometimes killed.

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