Yearly Archives

2015

Twitter’s new rules ban hateful speech

The Next WebTwitter has had something of a rocky history with dealing with abuse and harassment on its platform, but recently the company has been making some moves to mitigate that.Its latest action comes today in the form of…

Attacks by armed groups in Algeria have declined

Aljazeera EnglishDozens of top African police officials met in Algiers this month to ratify legal documents related to the creation of Afripol, the pan-African law enforcement agency expected to begin operations next year.…

U.S. vice president to visit Turkey next month

ReutersU.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Turkey on Jan. 23 and will meet President Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, sources from the Turkish prime minister's office said on Wednesday.Biden and Davutoglu…

Tripoli Municipal Guard: Unified prices for medicines

Libyan NewsThe Municipal Guard unit embarked on executive measures to activate a law adopted in 2013 aimed at putting an end to the contrast in medicines' prices at the local hospitals in the capital Tripoli.The director of…

Did Netflix and Amazon changed the rules of TV?

The VergeThis year, in lieu of the traditional Best Of Lists, we thought it would be fun to throw our writers into a draft together and have a conversation. This time, Ross Miller and Lizzie Plaugic discuss how streaming platforms…

Germany took in 1.1 million asylum seekers in 2015

AFPGermany took in almost 1.1 million asylum-seekers this year, an all-time record and five times last year's total, a newspaper reported Wednesday citing unpublished official figures.Monthly arrivals for all of December reached…

Misurata mayor sacked over disciplinary violation

Libyan NewsThe Prime Minister of the National Salvation Government (Tripoli-based government) issued a resolution state the dismissal of the Head of Misurata's Municipal Council, Mohamed Shtewwi, for administrative violations.…

UN Envoy to arrive in Tripoli to advance peace talks

Libyan NewsThe Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General, Martin Kobler, will arrive in the eastern city of Tobruk on Thursday to have consultations with the speaker of the Tobruk-based parliament (HoR),…

GNC Chairman Meets The Mayor of Benghazi

Libyan NewsThe Chairman of the General National Congress (GNC) held a meeting last night with the Mayor of Benghazi, in addition to several Benghazi elders, political activists, and senior members of Benghazi Crisis Committee, where…

1 Million above entered Europe as refugees

The IndependentMore than a million refugees have reached Europe so far this year by sea alone as migration continues on a scale not seen since the Second World War.The vast majority were packed into flimsy dinghys sent from…

Kobler in Oman to soothe things up

Libyan NewsThe United Nations envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, met The Omani Foreign Minister, Youssef Bin Alawi Tuesday in Muscat and discussed the latest about the Libya status quo as well as the efforts of the UN envoy with the…

Tunisian Female prisoners to be released from Libyan jails

Libyan NewsThe Libyan Elders Council Secretary General, Ayoub Al-Shara, affirmed Tuesday the release of three Tunisian female prisoners from Libyan prisons following an order from Libya’s General Attorney office.Meanwhile, civil…

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