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Morocco will halt incoming passenger flights for two weeks starting Monday night amid concern over the spread of a new, heavily mutated Covid-19 variant dubbed Omicron, a government committee said. "The decision has been taken because of…

The Italian coastguard has rescued about 250 migrants, including a newborn baby, from a boat drifting a few miles off the coast of the Calabria region. The rescue, carried out overnight on Saturday and Sunday, was complicated by…

The United Nations mission in Libya, on Friday, condemned an attack on a court in the south-western city of Sebha, Libyan Express News correspondent reports. "Alarmed by" the reported attack on the Sebha court of appeal on Thursday, the…

The permanent court-martial in Misurata sentenced in absentia on Thursday Khalifa Haftar to death for bombing Misurata Air Defense College in 2019 and causing the killing of one Libyan Army soldier after strikes by a military plane under…

Bilateral trade between Libya & Turkey soared by 43% to $2.3 billion in the last two years despite the pandemic thanks to the maritime boundaries agreement signed by the sides, Anadolu News Agency reports.Murtaza Karanfil, the head…

Protests against the results of the Oct. 10 general elections in Iraq continued Friday in Baghdad.Hundreds of demonstrators affiliated with the Fatah coalition, an alliance of the multiparty Hashd al-Shaabi, a pro-Iranian former…

Online sales hit $5.1 billion on Thanksgiving Day in the US, at lower-end of estimates, according to Adobe Digital Insights (ADI) data on Friday.The digital market research agency expected online sales to come between $5.1-$5.9 billion…

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday declared the new COVID-19 variant from southern Africa a "variant of concern," and named it Omicron.The declaration came after the Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution – an…

Saif al-Islam, has been excluded from the candidates for the Libyan presidential elections, Ean Libya Outlet reported on Wednesday.According to the outlet, along with Gaddafi Jr., several other people were excluded from the list of…

The United Arab Emirates announced today a $10 billion fund for investments in Turkey, the official Emirati news agency WAM said.The announcement comes after Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed held talks with Turkish…