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India skips IWT case proceedings at The Hague

The Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitrationhas said that India did not respond to an invitation to participate in a hearing and did not appear in proceedings over a case related to the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) dispute with Pakistan. The IWT of 1960 stands as one of the most carefully negotiated and legally robust transboundary water agreements in modern international law. Concluded between Pakistan and India with the good offices of the World Bank, the treaty was designed to remove water from the volatility of politics and conflict and to anchor it firmly in law, engineering discipline and neutral dispute resolution. It is a binding international instrument governed by the foundational principle of pacta sunt servanda — that treaties must be honoured in good faith. In a press release issued a day ago, the court said it concluded its hearing for the Second Phase on the Merits on February 3 in an arbitration initiated by Pakistan against I...
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53 migrants dead or missing after boat capsizes off Libya, IOM says

Fifty-three migrants, including two babies, were dead or missing after a rubber boat carrying 55 people capsized off the coast of Libya, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Monday. The boat departed from the coastal town of Zawiya on Thursday and overturned off Zuwara on Friday, the IOM said in a statement, citing survivors. Zawiya and Zuwara are located west of the Libyan capital, Tripoli. “Only two Nigerian women were rescued during a search-and-rescue operation by Libyan authorities. One survivor reported losing her husband, while the other said she lost her two babies in the tragedy,” the IOM said. At least 53 migrants, including two babies, are dead or missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Libya.   These tragedies are preventable. Urgent action is needed to protect lives and ensure safe, regular pathways on the Central Mediterranean route. https://t.co/crr3B1Y8tN pic.twitter.com/coEHlcKiXB — IOM Spokesperson (@IOMSpokesperson) February 9, 2026 More than 1,300 migrants have gone missing in the central Mediterranean so far in 2025, according to the UN agency. In January alone, at least 375 migrants were reported dead or missing following multiple “invisible” shipwrecks amid extreme weather conditions, with hundreds more deaths believed to have gone unrecorded. “The latest incident brings the number of migrants reported dead or missing on the route in 2026 to at least 484,” the agency said. In mid-January, at least 21 migrant bodies were discovered in a mass grave in eastern Libya, with up to 10 survivors showing signs of torture before being freed from captivity, according to two security sources. Read More: Boat capsizes near Keti Bandar, one dead and one missing Two additional security sources said that two days later Libyan authorities freed more than 200 migrants from what they described as a secret prison in the southeastern town of Kufra, where they had been held in inhuman conditions. Libya has become a key transit route for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty toward Europe via perilous desert crossings and Mediterranean sea routes since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011. 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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