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Uranium said missing by IAEA in Libya recovered: Military
More than two tonnes of natural uranium reported missing by the UN’s nuclear watchdog in war-scarred Libya have been found, a general in the country’s east said Thursday.General Khaled al-Mahjoub, ...
Libyan elections are possible this year: UN envoy
UN Libya envoy Abdoulaye Bathily said on Saturday that if a clear road map and electoral laws are put in place by June, national elections could be held by the end of the year.A political process to ...
Libya approves constitutional fix but no big breakthrough to elections
Libya’s High State Council voted on Thursday for a constitutional amendment intended to provide a basis for elections but there appeared to be little progress on big disagreements standing in the way ...
Greece and Egypt call Turkish-Libyan gas deal ‘illegal’
Egypt and Greece on Sunday said a deal allowing Turkish hydrocarbon exploration in Libya’s Mediterranean waters was “illegal” as Athens said it would oppose it by all “legal means.”On Monday, Turkey ...
Turkey and Libyan government agree preliminary maritime energy deal
Libya’s Tripoli government signed a series of preliminary economic agreements with Turkey on Monday that included potential energy exploration in maritime areas, but Libya’s eastern-based parliament ...
More than 40 bodies found in Libya mass grave: Authorities
Forty-two bodies have been found in a mass grave in the Libyan city of Sirte, an ex-stronghold of the ISIS extremist group, the country’s missing persons authority said Sunday.Exhumation teams ...
At least five killed in western Libya clashes
Five people were killed and 13 wounded in gun battles in the western Libyan town of Zawiyah, the latest unrest in the troubled North African nation, medics said Monday.Fighting late Sunday broke out ...
Libya’s Tripoli-based Presidential Council announces plan to end crisis
Libya’s Tripoli-based Presidential Council on Tuesday announced a plan to extract the country from its latest political crisis and hold elections.“In response to the legitimate demands of the Libyan ...
Libyan protest group: Rallies should go on until goals achieved
Libyan protesters say they will keep demonstrating until all the ruling elites quit power after rallies in most main cities on Friday culminated in a crowd storming the parliament building and ...
Talks begin at UN on breaking elections stalemate in war-torn Libya
The UN called for a “final and courageous effort” to break the deadlock over the rules for long-awaited elections in war-torn Libya, as talks between rival administrations began in Geneva.Parliament ...
ICC says Libya militia suspect dead, drops case
The International Criminal Court on Wednesday confirmed the death of wanted war crimes suspect and Libyan militia leader Mahmoud al-Werfalli, saying it was dropping the case against him.The decision ...
Libyan court passes Abu Slim jail massacre case to military tribunals
A Libyan court said Wednesday it could not rule on the case of a notorious prison massacre under slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, arguing it should be heard by a military tribunal.In 1996, 1,269 ...
Rival Libyan prime minister says he plans to be in Tripoli in days
A rival Libyan prime minister says he plans to be in the country’s capital and seat his government there in a matter of days — even though a parallel administration opposing his is currently located ...
Libya’s parliament approves new government as crisis escalates
Libya’s parliament approved a new government on Tuesday despite the incumbent administration vowing not to cede power, pushing a fragile peace process to the brink of collapse and raising the risk of ...
Libya’s Dbeibah promises legislative elections by end of June
Libya’s interim prime minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah reaffirmed Monday that he will only cede power to an elected government and announced a plan for legislative elections before the end of June, in the ...
UN adviser tells Libya it must preserve calm, stability
The UN Secretary-General’s special adviser on Libya on Sunday called on both Libya’s interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah and his parliament-designated successor Fathi Bashagha to preserve ...
Armed convoy moves into Tripoli to shore up interim PM Dbeibah
A convoy of fighters moved into Tripoli from the Libyan city of Misrata on Saturday to shore up the interim prime minister amid a push by the parliament to oust him in favor of its own ...
UN chief calls on ‘all parties’ to ‘preserve stability’ in Libya
UN chief Antonio Guterres called Friday on “all parties to continue to preserve stability in Libya as a top priority,” after the country found itself with two competing prime ministers, raising the ...
Libya’s PM Dbeibah promises new election law to solve political crisis
Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah on Friday promised to draft a new election law to solve the political crisis in the North African country.A day after surviving an alleged assassination ...
ISIS attack in Libya kills three security personnel: Interior ministry
Fighters linked to ISIS terrorist group have killed three Libyan security personnel in the country’s southwest, the interior ministry said Thursday.The attack on Wednesday, in the desert some 700 ...
US, Russia at odds on extending UN Libya mission
Russia and the United States were deadlocked Thursday over extending the UN mission in Libya, which ends January 31, with Moscow demanding the secretary-general’s American special advisor on Libya be ...
Libya candidates say presidential election delay is inevitable
A group of candidates in war-torn Libya’s presidential election said Monday that they expect the polls to be delayed, despite the lack of an official announcement to that effect.Scheduled for Friday, ...
Armed groups deploy around key sites in Libya’s Tripoli
Armed groups deployed in the streets of Libya’s capital Tripoli overnight into Thursday, in an apparent show of force following the sacking of a senior military official.“Armed groups under the ...
Libyan central bank reunification process begins this month: Governor
Libya’s two parallel central bank branches will formally begin the process of reunification this month, although progress will depend on the outcome of upcoming presidential elections, Tripoli’s ...
Turkey rebuffs Macron call for Libya troop withdrawal
Turkey on Saturday rebuffed French President Emmanuel Macron’s call on foreign powers to remove their forces from Libya as part of efforts turn on a page on a decade of strife.The North African ...