100 migrants comfirmed missing after boat sinks off in Libya

Coastguard interpreter Ayoub Qassem same twenty three migrants were saved from the craft off Gargaresh, a western suburbia of Tripoli. Survivors same the expansive boat had go off with close to concerning a hundred and twenty folks on board.

Close to one hundred migrants were feared missing once their boat sank off the Libyan coast close to Tripoli on weekday, a service official same.

Coastguard interpreter Ayoub Qassem same twenty three migrants were saved from the craft off Gargaresh, a western suburbia of Tripoli. Survivors same the expansive boat had go off with concerning a hundred and twentyfolks on board.
"Some ninety seven ar still missing, as well as fifteen ladies and youngsters. What happened is that the bottom of the boat got destroyed and also the boat had sunk", Qassem same.

Libya is that the main departure purpose for migrants hoping to achieve Europe by ocean, and over one hundred fifty,000 have created the crossing from Libya to Italian Republic in every of the past 3 years.

Smugglers place most of the migrants in flimsy expansive dinghies that get picked up by rescue ships and different vessels once they reach water. Some ar intercepted and turned back by the Libyan service.

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U.K. needs new policy on students behaviour

The body representing universities within the U.K. is asking for a “new immigration” policy on international students, once new analysis acknowledged that almost common fraction of individuals assume that international students had a positive impact on native economies. The study same simply twenty sixth of the poll respondents believed they must be counted as “immigrants” in government policy.

The analysis comes amid growing pressure on the govt. to get rid of international students from web migration figures — one thing the govt. has resisted thus far despite efforts, as well as by senior members of the party similarly as by House of Lords earlier this year to steer it to try to to therefore.

The poll conducted for Universities U.K. by analysis practice ComRes indicated a consistency of views across the country, on the far side London and as well as northern regions. It found that once details of the economic impact of international students were given to individuals, seventy three same they might wish to see the numbers of international students returning to the U.K. increase or a minimum of stay identical.

‘Temporary visitors’

“It is obvious that Brits public doesn't see international students as long migrants, however as valuable, temporary guests,” same Dame Julia Goodfellow, president of Universities U.K.

“But, whereas the U.K. government continues to count international students as long migrants in its target to cut back migration, there's continuing pressure to cut back their numbers, adding to the perception that they're not welcome here,” she said.

While Britain doesn't have a cap on the amount of international students, a slew of things square measure thought to place students off, as well as their restricted ability to remain and work once finishing their degree, ANd perceptions that Britain is an unwelcoming place, principally fuelled by political rhetoric stressing the government’s enthusiasm to crack down on immigration.

Indians most affected

Recent figures have shown international student enrolments dropping over the years, with Indian students among the foremost wedged.

Figures revealed by education Statistics Agency in Gregorian calendar month showed that the amount of Indian students born to sixteen,745 in 2015-16 from twenty nine,900 in 2011-12. Senior officers and politicians in India have within the past indicated that policies towards international students is one in all the problems of concern within the bilateral relationship.

“If the U.K. desires to stay a prime destination for international students, we'd like a replacement immigration policy that encourages them to settle on the U.K. As the U.K. prepares to exit the EU, it's a lot of necessary than ever that we have a tendency to project a hospitable message to proficient individuals from across the planet,” added Ms. Goodfellow.

“Foreign students contribute AN eye-watering £26 billion to the U.K. economy, however the Conservatives, World Health Organization once delighted within the title of ‘the party of business’, square measure ready to lose all that cash,” same John Pugh, proponent for the Liberal Democrats on education.

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Nigeria receives 500,000 doses of meningitis vaccine- WHO

Nigeria has received 500,000 doses of meningitis C vaccine to combat the epidemic in the country, the WHO has said.

The doses were sent by the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision, an organisation that coordinates the provision of vaccine during disease outbreak.

The WHO Country Representative to Nigeria, Dr. Wondimagegnehu Alemu, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Friday.

He said the vaccines, funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have been administered in Zamfara and Katsina States where the disease was most endemic.

Alemu said an additional 820,000 doses of the meningitis C conjugate vaccine donated by the United Kingdom government to WHO was currently being sent to Nigeria.

He said in the last week, the ICG also sent 341,000 doses of the meningitis C vaccine to Niger Republic.

He said over 1,300 suspected cases of meningitis had been found in the region particularly in districts that border Nigeria and in the Niamey region of the country.

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U.S strike kills 36 ISIS militants in Afghanistan

A United States military strike with a weapon known as the “Mother Of All Bombs” (MOAB) killed 36 Islamic State militants and destroyed their base, the Afghan defence ministry has said.

The most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever used by the U.S in combat was dropped on an ISIS complex in Nangarhar province, the BBC reports.

No civilians were affected by the explosion, the ministry said.

Former Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, condemned the attack as “an inhuman and most brutal misuse of our country.”

Chief Executive of Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah, confirmed that the attack had been carried out in co-ordination with the government and that “great care had been taken to avoid civilian harm.”

The Afghan defence ministry said the bomb struck a village area in the Momand valley where ISIS fighters were using a 300m-long network of caves.

It said the 21,600lb (9,800kg) bomb also destroyed a large stash of weapons.

Presidential spokesman, Shah Hussain Murtazawi told the BBC that ISIS commander, Siddiq Yar, was among those killed.

Mr. Murtazawi said the ISIS fighters in the tunnels had “come from Pakistan and were persecuting people in the local area.”

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