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The High Council of State (HCS) has decided in a meeting in Tripoli for its members to go to Paris and attend the French-brokered international conference.The agreement on attendance came in a statement following the internal voting…

The Italian ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Perrone, tweeted Sunday that chaotic and too many initiatives in Libya could lead to more death boats, referring to growing illegal immigration crisis via the Libyan coast into Italy.He…

The Libyan dinar has sharply dropped in value on Sunday starting in a hike from 6.60 on Friday to 7.75 per one US dollar on Sunday at the black market. The Libyan dinar to US dollar exchange rates at the central bank are still at…

Libya stakeholders have been invited by the French President Emmanuel Macron to be at the Elysée palace in Paris on Tuesday for an international conference that aims to pave the way for elections that could be held in Libya by the…

A reliable source told Libyan News on Saturday that the delegation of Misurata city has rejected attending the upcoming international conference on May 29 in Pairs that France said would aim to break Libyan political stalemate. The…

More than 100 east African migrants escaped from a camp in the Libyan town of Bani Walid where they were being held hostage and tortured, international agencies and local sources said on Saturday, May 26.The migrants from Eritrea,…

Social media pages and local Libyan social media activists have both similarly reported that the Halbous Brigade, Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade and Ghaniwa Brigade in Tripoli, which are under the Presidential Council control, have…

Photos and videos circulated on social media showed a car bomb explosion that took place at Jamal Abdelnasser Street in Benghazi. Al-Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi confirmed the explosion and said it has so far received over 6…

A fighting in Ras Hassan street in Tripoli, Libya's capital, left two men killed after Iftar on Thursday. The spokesman for the Special Deterrence Force Ahmed Salim told local news that their security personnel interfered in the…

The humanitarian coordinator at the UNSMIL, Maria Ribeiro, said in a statement on Thursday that the humanitarian community in Libya is perturbed by the continued lack of humanitarian access and subsequent assistance into Derna despite…