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The Libyan High National Elections Commission (HNEC) closed Monday candidacy registration for presidential elections after over 80 candidates had submitted their documents for the December 24 vote. The HNEC is expected to publish the…

Libya's military prosecutor has called for halting the candidacy of  Khalifa Haftar and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, for Libya's presidential elections.Libya al-Ahrar TV said military prosecutor Masoud Erhouma submitted a request to Emad…

The Kremlin on Monday dismissed new allegations that Moscow was weighing a military attack on Ukraine, and said it was alarmed that Ukraine was being supplied with large quantities of weapons and building up its own forces.The head…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken received Monday Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, announced the State Department on its website."The Secretary of State meets the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, at…

In the runup to landmark elections in Libya, the UN special envoy for Libya has stepped down with immediate effect due to health reasons, diplomatic sources told Libyan Express on Tuesday.Jan Kubis' decision to step down from his…

Libya's Prime Minister, Abdel Hamid Dbeibah, submitted on Sunday, his candidacy documents for the presidential elections to the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) in Tripoli, to become the 57th candidate in the elections…

The Presidential Council (PC) spokeswoman, Najwa Wahiba has affirmed that the PC encourages the holding of elections on time as scheduled, saying that it stands at the same distance from all parties, adding that the legislative bodies are…

The Libyan ministries of agriculture and local government, on Sunday, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Mediterranean Institute of Agricultural Sciences in Italy, to support spatial development projects to amplify food…

The World Food Programme (WFP) warned Sunday that hunger was increasing across war-torn Yemen amid continued rise in goods prices."Food prices and hunger continue to rise," WFP said on Twitter. "The level of need is high with…

Sudan’s ousted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was reinstated on Sunday after signing a political agreement with the military.The deal, signed by Hamdok and Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the ruling military council, puts an…