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Libya adopts law barring Gadhafi-era officials
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May 05, 2013 01:39 PM
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TRIPOLI: Libya's General National Congress, under pressure from militiamen, on Sunday voted through a controversial law to exclude former regime officials from government posts, a move that could see the premier removed from office.Gunmen who had surrounded the foreign and justice ministries to...
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Libya faces tough test over French Embassy attack
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April 25, 2013 12:57 AM
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TRIPOL: Tuesday’s bomb attack on the French Embassy highlighted the security situation in Libya, with extremists and militias gaining influence as Paris’ intervention in Mali has tried to uproot radical Islam from the region. Since the fall of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime in October...
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France vows Libya embassy attackers will pay
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April 24, 2013 09:36 AM
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TRIPOLI: France promised that those behind Tuesday's devastating car bomb attack on its embassy in Libya -- which wounded a girl living nearby and two guards -- would pay for the attack. "The terrorists who wanted to attack France and Libya and undermine the friendship between them will...
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Homemade alcohol kills 51 in Libya: health ministry
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March 11, 2013 09:35 PM
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TRIPOLI: More than 50 people have died in Libya since Saturday after drinking cheap homemade alcohol and hundreds were poisoned, the health ministry said on Monday, as the authorities in the Muslim country vowed a crackdown on booze trafficking. The ministry said 38 people died in Tripoli...
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Libya leader's car shot up as political tension soars
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March 06, 2013 10:37 PM
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TRIPOLI: The car of Libya's interim leader was shot up as he left a chaotic session of the national assembly, without causing harm, officials said Wednesday, as post-revolutionary tensions soared in the country. "The car of the General National Congress speaker (Mohammed Megaryef) came...
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Surprise in Benghazi over Western evacuation orders
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January 25, 2013 10:10 PM
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BENGHAZI, Libya: Calls from several Western governments urging their citizens to evacuate Benghazi have surprised diplomats and Libyan officials who say there is no need for alarm despite chronic unrest in the eastern city. "Everyone is asking... why this alarm all at once," said Jean...
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Fighters in Libya’s Bani Walid pledge to fight off Gadhafi loyalists
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October 13, 2012 12:34 AM
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BANI WALID, Libya: Fighters in Bani Walid say they are ready to lay down their lives to defend the besieged town of jagged hilltops which gave shelter last year to loyalists of slain Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. “They’ll have to march over our dead bodies to reach Bani Walid,”...
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Libyan prime minister left in the cold
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October 09, 2012 12:39 AM
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TRIPOLI: Libya’s dismissed Prime Minister Mustafa Abu Shagur appears to have paid the price for an unlikely rapprochement between liberals and Islamists planning to form a government of national unity. The turmoil comes with post-revolt leaders facing many challenges in a country still awash...
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Libyan assembly rejects second cabinet, dismisses PM
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October 08, 2012 01:40 AM
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TRIPOLI: Libyan premier Mustafa Abu Shagur was dismissed Sunday after the General National Congress rejected his proposed “crisis” cabinet of just 10 ministers, days after his first lineup was also turned down. The embattled Abu Shagur, who had been given 72 hours to come up with a new...
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Libya militia crackdown spreads to Tripoli
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September 23, 2012 10:38 PM
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TRIPOLI: A Libyan crackdown on lawless militias spread to the capital on Sunday after armed groups that have not been integrated into state institutions were ordered to disband and evacuate their bases. The army said in an online statement that its forces had dislodged a militia from a military...
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Libya says 50 held over US ambassador's killing
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September 16, 2012 07:44 PM
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TRIPOLI: Libya's parliament chief announced on Sunday the arrests of some 50 people over the killing of US ambassador Chris Stevens in an attack he said was planned, although Washington said it was spontaneous. US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, meanwhile, said the American military has no...
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Libya's under-fire interior minister quits
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August 26, 2012 09:46 PM
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TRIPOLI: Interior Minister Fawzi Abdelali resigned on Sunday after coming under fire for the performance of security forces during a surge of violence that has rocked Libya, an official from his office told AFP. "He submitted his resignation to protest against congressmen criticising the...
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Pro-Islamist elected to head Libya assembly
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August 10, 2012 11:41 AM
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TRIPOLI: Libya's newly empowered top legislative body elected as its president late on Thursday a veteran opponent of Moamer Kadhafi's ousted regime who is seen as pro-Islamist. Mohamed al-Megaryef, a founding member of the Libyan National Salvation Front, which grouped exiled opponents of...
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Libya's Islamists count on independents to get a majority
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July 10, 2012 11:43 PM
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TRIPOLI: Libya's Islamists said on Tuesday they should be able to control the new national congress through alliances with like-minded independents even though liberals appear to be doing well in seats reserved for parties. Preliminary results of Libya's first election since last...
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Libya ICC team faces 45 days' detention: judiciary
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June 11, 2012 04:29 PM
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TRIPOLI, Libya: Libya has put four International Criminal Court (ICC) envoys in "preventive" detention in prison for 45 days while investigating an alleged threat to national security, a judicial source said on Monday. "A decision was made to put them in preventive detention for 45...
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