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The Libyan parallel Central Bank in Bayda city in eastern Libya announced issuing new coin worth 1 Libyan Dinar (LYD1).The central bank announced on its Facebook Thursday that the coin will be circulating in the banks starting…

The call was grim and urgent. Worsening power cuts had knocked out electricity at a hospital in southern Libya, leaving kidney patients without the dialysis that was keeping them alive. After losing two patients, hospital staff phoned…

The number of migrants arriving in Italy from the Mediterranean has dropped sharply, according to the European Union’s border agency.In September 2017 some 5,600 people arrived in Italy via the central Mediterranean route, Frontex said…

An Iraqi court has ordered the arrest of the vice-president of the Kurdistan Region for calling troops sent to Kirkuk this week "occupying forces".A Supreme Judicial Council spokesman said the court believed Kosrat Rasul's remarks were…

Hungary, the Netherlands and South Korea have reopened their embassies in Tripoli after a three-year closure, a Libyan security official said Wednesday. "The embassies of the Netherlands, Hungary and South Korea began their official…

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the most prominent son of the former Libyan leader, is in good health and is following the political situation in Libya from his base inside the country, a Gaddafi family lawyer said on Tuesday.Khaled…

A U.S. judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s latest bid to impose restrictions on citizens from several countries entering the United States, which would have taken effect this week.The open-ended ban, announced last…

Smugglers have been stealing fuel in Libya and selling it on across Europe, according to Italian police.Italian police said on Wednesday that they had broken up a network selling low-quality Libyan diesel fuel worth…

After weeks of conflict in western Libya, United Nations agencies have been working around the clock to meet the urgent needs of the more than 14,000 refugees and migrants who had been held captive in numerous locations in the coastal…