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Thirty-seven migrants are missing after their boat capsized between Tunisia and the Italian island of Lampedusa, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday, citing an account by four survivors of the shipwreck. The United Nations agency said the survivors, all from sub-Saharan Africa, arrived on Lampedusa late on Thursday, having been rescued from the shipwreck by another vessel. The survivors told the IOM they left the Tunisian port of Sfax heading for Italy with 46 people aboard, but their boat capsized in strong winds.
An Algerian court on Wednesday handed five year prison sentences to former Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui and former health minister Abdelmalek Boudiaf along with fines of 1 million Algerian dinars, the state news agency said. The sentences from the economic and financial Penal Court were related to a corruption case.
Saudi Minister of Media Salman Al-Dosari said that the 53rd session of the Council of Arab Media Ministers held in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, would address highly significant issues namely sketching an anti-terrorism Arab media strategy. Al-Dosari underscored Wednesday the need for a joint Arab mechanism to address online content that deviates from religious, and moral values, urging the development of effective mechanisms to deal with such online platforms.
Russia has information that the United States is strengthening its military contingent in Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, the Russian president's special envoy for Syria, said on Thursday according to the RIA news agency. "There is such information. that the US is strengthening its military contingent in northeastern Syria, as well as in Al-Tanf, which has been illegally occupied by them for quite a long time," Lavrentiev was cited as saying.