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Italy’s interior minister on Thursday called for the end of the international arms embargo on Libya, saying weapons and migrant traffickers disregard it anyway. Matteo Salvini made the appeal at a news conference in Rome with a deputy…

On 4 July 2018, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or the "Court") issued a second warrant of arrest for Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf AL‑WERFALLI ("Mr. Al-Werfalli") for his alleged responsibility for murder as a…

The Libyan eastern warlord of the self-styled army Khalifa Haftar said in a statement posted by the General Command of the Army that the oil terminals will be reopened and oil exportation will resume once the governor of the Central…

Whereas the ambitions of competing warlords fan the flames of conflict and consume the country’s oil resources, envoys from the UN and West to Libya continue to congratulate themselves for having said much but done little. In the…

Oil prices rose on Tuesday after Libya declared force majeure on some of its crude exports, while the loss of Canadian supplies helped lifted US crude to levels not seen since late 2014.US light crude jumped 90 US cents, or 1.2%, to…

 The former Head of the high Council of State Abdelrahman Al-Sweihli met with the outgoing ambassador of the Netherlands Eric Strating in Tripoli on Wednesday. Al-Sweihli and Starting discussed the current…

England won against Colombia on penalties 4-3 after drawing 1-1 at the final match of the World Cup 2018 round of 16. The English will play Sweden at the World Cup quarterfinals next Saturday.Sweden beat Switzerland 1-0 and…

The National Oil Corporation (NOC) has also written to the UN sanctions committee and foreign embassies with evidence that it says shows Haftar’s allies have for years been offering questionable contracts in breach of UN resolutions,…

UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Monday announced that the European Union (EU) has allocated 7 million euros (8.13 million U.S. dollars) to support the Libya Stabilization Fund.The mission said in a statement that the EU…

Dozens of migrants are missing after a rubber boat they were on sank off the coast of Libya, local officials say. One official is quoted as saying 63 migrants have disappeared after Sunday's incident east of Tripoli, while 41 people have…