ROME: Eighteen fishermen from Mazara del Vallo in Sicily have been released after more than 100 days in captivity in Libya, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte and Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio announced on Thursday. The breakthrough came on Thursday after Conte and Di Maio flew to Benghazi, the stronghold of Libyan General Khalifa El-Haftar, whose forces seized the crew members about 80 miles off the Libyan coast on September 1, claiming their two boats had entered Libya’s protected fishing area.
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