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Maltese authorities have revealed that over the course of three years, their customs department has seized €927,294,000 (What equates to over a 1 billion dollars) worth of goods on their way to Libya in breach of UN sanctions.The ships…

Eyewitnesses report that the former rebel commander of Tripoli’s Revolutionaries’ Brigade (TRB) was spotted in Tripoli this last week at a cafe.The military commander was notably absent from the recent war that took place in the capital…

A motion to extend the deployment of troops in Libya for additional 18 months was submitted to the Turkish Parliament this Saturday.The motion, which was signed by the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, stated that the permanent…

The House of Representatives (HOR) in Tripoli rejected the decision of the Interior Minister of the Government of National Accord, Fathi Bashaga, to ban the travel of the governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Sadiq al-Kabir.In an…

The United States's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization to Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine for distribution to the public over the next weeks.Initially, a shipment of 2.9 million doses of the…

The 30th of November 2020, is the commemoration day of the expulsion of Arab Jews from their countries.In 1967 Libyan Jews were stripped of their citizenship and property and expelled from Libya allowing each of them nothing more than a…

Following Sudan, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, Morocco becomes the fourth Arab country to normalise relations with the Jewish state.As a part of a major foreign policy effort of the Trump administration, Morrocco has set aside…

Special representative for United Nations Support Mission in Libya Stephanie Williams is set to host an economic working group from the 14-15 in Geneva, Switzerland.The talks will address urgent policy reform and shaping economic…

Starting January 1st, the Libyan Ports Company (LPC) will initiate a new policy of charging shipping hard cash for certain services.Intending to increase its revenue, the LPC last week stated that it will begin charging ships hard cash…

Discovery of a record-breaking amount of cocaine was made at the Freeport with the illicit drug being smuggled within pallets carrying cooking oil.The 612kg worth of cocaine was intercepted by Maltese customs on their way to Libya from…