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Tripoli - Libyan army special forces have arrested an armed group in the eastern city of Benghazi in possession of hundreds of anti-tank mines and material for making explosives, the LANA news agency reported on Wednesday. A security source was quoted as saying "220 anti-tank mines as well as equipment for manufacturing explosives were seized" and that one of the
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Tripoli — Libyan security services defused several car bombs and other explosives in the past two days, Prime Minister Ali Zidan said on Sunday (May 19th). The prime minister's press conference came in the wake of a string of bombings in both Benghazi and Tripoli. The attacks accelerated after the May 5th passage of the controversial political isolation law, which
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Benghazi - Gunmen on Wednesday attacked and set fire to a police station in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi to avenge the death of a colleague in an overnight incident, a security official said. Police withdrew from the Alhadek police station which was then torched by the attackers, while gunfire reverberated around the complex, an AFP correspondent reported. Wednesday's assault
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The United Nations Assistance Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) strongly condemned the bombing that took place today near a hospital in the city of Benghazi and resulted in a number of deaths, including children, as well as injuries. In a news release issued in Tripoli, the Mission expressed its sincerest condolences to the families of the victims, and wished those injured
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Tripoli - Scores of Libyan militiamen descended on an anti-Islamist rally in the nation's capital, Tripoli, kicking and beating protesters who had taken to the streets on Friday as part of a call for mass demonstrations against the country's unruly militias and Muslim radicals. Rallies also took place in two other Libyan cities, Benghazi and Tobruk, with hundreds of activists
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Benghazi - Bomb attacks targeted two police stations in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, causing extensive material damage but no casualties, a security official said. "Unknown individuals threw explosive devices at the police stations in Ras Obeida and Al-Madina," the official told AFP. The attacks damaged the police stations and several cars parked nearby, he said. Benghazi,
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Britain is temporarily pulling out some staff from its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli due to security concerns over recent political unrest, the foreign office said on Friday. "Given the security implications of the ongoing political uncertainty, the British embassy is temporarily withdrawing a small number of staff, mainly those who work in support of government ministries which have
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If Libya can conduct fair trials of the top henchmen of the overthrown Gaddafi regime, it could be "Libya's Nuremberg moment", the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Wednesday. Fatou Bensounda told the Security Council that her office is still investigating allegations of serious crimes committed by former Gaddafi officials, some of whom are now outside of
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Tripoli — Libya's Defence Minister has withdrawn his offer to resign, hours after announcing resignation. Earlier, Mohammed al-Barghathi said he had decided to step down following the recent sieges by armed groups of the justice and foreign ministries. The gunmen had asked parliament pass the Political Isolation Law, which prevents ousted leader Gaddafi-era officials from taking posts in the new
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Tripoli - Libya's defence minister resigned on Tuesday in protest at a siege by gunmen of two government ministries that he denounced as an assault on democracy. He was the first cabinet minister to quit in a crisis over the siege, which armed groups refused to lift even after parliament bowed on Sunday to their main demand by banning any
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Libya's parliament has passed a law banning officials from the Gaddafi era from holding political office. The vote in the General National Congress (GNC) came a week after militias backing the law began besieging the ministries of justice and foreign affairs. They had said they would not leave until the bill was passed. The law could affect senior members of
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Zintan - The imprisoned son of Libya's slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi appeared in court on Thursday on charges of harming state security, but the judge adjourned his hearing until September 19 to allow defence lawyers time to study the case. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the ousted leader's longtime heir apparent, wore a sky blue safari suit and a pair of sandals.
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Tripoli - A bomb destroyed a police station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi early on Thursday but caused no casualties, a security source told AFP, in a second attack targeting the building. "An explosive device was thrown at Al-Baraka police station in Benghazi, destroying what remained of the building after the bomb attack that targeted it last weekend,"
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Former French interior minister Claude Guéant has denied accusations that he laundered half a million euros donated by the late Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign. On Tuesday Guéant, who was serving as Sarkozy's chief of staff at the time, was forced to explain the origins of money deposited into his bank account that were discovered
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Tripoli - Armed men demanding the expulsion of officials from the former regime of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday surrounded the justice ministry in Tripoli, where the foreign ministry has similarly been encircled for the past three days, an official said. "Several armed men in vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft guns surrounded the ministry of justice," Walid Ben Rabha,
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Tripoli - Gunmen surrounded Libya's foreign ministry on Sunday to push demands that officials who had worked for deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi's government be banned from senior positions in the new administration. At least 20 pick-up trucks loaded with anti-aircraft guns blocked the roads while men armed with AK-47s and sniper rifles directed the traffic away from the building, witnesses
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Tripoli - Gunmen have attacked an army post near the Libyan capital, Tripoli, leaving one soldier dead, a military official said on Saturday. The attack targeted the Uqba bin Nafae Battalion in the town of Darna, east of Tripoli. "Following the assault, a car packed with more than 50kg of TNT explosives were found," the battalion commander told the state-run
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French President Francois Hollande wants Libya to explain how the French embassy in Tripoli was the scene of a car bomb attack on Tuesday which left two French security guards injured, one seriously. "France expects the Libyan authorities to ensure that all possible light is shed on this unacceptable act so that the perpetrators are identified and brought to justice,"
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Tripoli - France's embassy in Libya was hit by what appeared to be a car bomb on Tuesday, injuring two guards in the first such attack in the Libyan capital since the 2011 war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi. "There was an attack on the embassy. We think it was a booby trapped car," a French official said. "There was a
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Tripoli - Libyan authorities have arrested 20 people after an attack on a police vehicle compound in the desert south in which one person was killed, the army chief said on Saturday. The attack on the compound took place on Thursday in the southern town of Sabha, about 800km south of the capital Tripoli. "They arrived by car, armed with
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Tripoli - Libya's coastguard rescued 89 illegal immigrants off the western port of Zawiya after their boat broke down and five of them died, a naval official told Lana news agency on Saturday. A fisherman told authorities a boat carrying illegal immigrants had been adrift for five days, and a coastguard patrol was sent to rescue them, naval spokesperson Colonel
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Tripoli - Libya's national assembly approved a law criminalising torture and abductions on Tuesday as the government seeks to stamp its authority on a country awash with weapons where militias often have more power on the ground than state security forces. Since the end of the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's new rulers have struggled to control a
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Libyan weapons are spreading at "an alarming rate" to new territory in west Africa and the eastern Mediterranean including Syria and the Gaza Strip where they are fueling conflicts and increasing the arsenals of armed groups and terrorists, a UN panel said. In a report to the UN Security Council circulated on Tuesday, the panel said cases of illicit transfers
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Tripoli — In Libya, a dose of LSD or the painkiller tramadol costs 78 cents, and a joint of cannabis is 7.80 dollars. Here, drugs are affordable to the poor for a simple reason. "Slashing prices is a way to create demand and open up a market," a Western diplomat tells IPS in Tripoli, the capital. "Prices will go up
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The Hague - Libya has formally applied to the International Criminal Court to be allowed to put Muammar Gaddafi’s former spy chief on trial in Tripoli instead of sending him to The Hague to face justice, according to documents published Wednesday. In a lengthy written submission, lawyers representing Libya argued that Abdullah al-Senoussi's home country is willing and able to
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