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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…

Russia is calling upon all sides in Libya to show maximum restraint so that the people of Libya could execute their legitimate right to elect and be elected, Russian Deputy Envoy to the UN Gennady Kuzmin said.The Libyan statehood…

The US sanctioned Mohamed al-Kani and the Kaniyat militia on Wednesday, accused of killing civilians discovered in mass graves in city of Tarhuna, 65 kilometres (40 mi) to the southeast of Tripoli, in the Murqub District. . The…

Almost 3.6 million people contracted the novel coronavirus worldwide in the past week, over 51,000 of them died, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in its Weekly Epidemiological Report on Wednesday."Globally, the numbers of…

Libya’s electoral commission said Tuesday that 98 candidates, including two women, had registered to run in a presidential election scheduled for December 24.“The candidate registration platform has received the papers of 98…