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Libya’s new PM to unveil team in first hurdle of transition
Agence France-Presse . Tripoli | Updated at 02:01am on February 26, 2021
Libya’s prime minister-designate Abdul Hamid Dheibah is set to name a transitional government Thursday tasked with unifying the war-torn nation and leading it to elections...
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Libya embarks on new transition phase
Agence France-Presse . Tripoli | Updated at 10:44pm on February 06, 2021
Libya embarked Saturday on a new phase of its post-Gaddafi transition after the selection of a unity government to lead the country until December elections...
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UN hails new Libya prisoner swap under October truce
Agence France-Presse . Tripoli | Updated at 01:35am on January 08, 2021
The UN mission in Libya has welcomed a second exchange of prisoners between the country’s rival administrations and called for faster progress on other parts...
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UN says Syrians exit Lebanon city over tensions
Agence France-Presse . Tripoli | Updated at 12:22am on November 29, 2020
At least 270 Syrian families have left a north Lebanon town, as hostility towards them mounted over a murder allegedly committed by a Syrian national,...
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Second Libya shipwreck raises toll to 100
Agence France-Presse . Tripoli | Updated at 11:02am on November 13, 2020
A shipwreck off the Libyan coast has killed 20 people, Doctors Without Borders said, just hours after news of a separate incident in which at...
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At least 11 migrants killed in Libya boat capsize: UN
Agence France-Presse . Tripoli | Updated at 10:20am on October 26, 2020
At least 11 migrants died on Sunday when their boat floundered off the coast of Libya, the United Nations migration agency said, days after 20...
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UN urges Libyan authorities to cooperate with abuse probe
Agence France-Presse . Tripoli | Updated at 12:40am on August 24, 2020
The UN mission to Libya on Saturday urged authorities in the war-wracked North African country to cooperate with a fact-finding team tasked with investigating alleged...
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Libya unity govt signs military accord with Qatar, Turkey
Agence France-Presse . Tripoli | Updated at 10:36pm on August 18, 2020
Qatar and Turkey have signed an accord to send military advisers and instructors for the armed forces of Libya’s Government of National Accord, the UN-recognised...
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Civilians among over 100 victims of Libya mines: UN
Agence France-Presse . Tripoli | Updated at 11:23pm on June 28, 2020
Mines have killed or wounded more than 100 people, including many civilians, south of Libya’s capital following deadly combat between rival forces, the UN said...
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Six migrants dead, dozens rescued off Libya coast
Agence France-Presse . Tripoli | Updated at 11:38pm on June 27, 2020
A woman who gave birth at sea was among 93 migrants rescued off Libyan shores as they tried to reach Europe, but six others died...