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Almost 200 people are feared to have died in two Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwrecks during the weekend.The International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said that seven people were rescued off the north-western city of…

Libya is pumping the most oil since October 2014 as the OPEC member restores output amid progress in mending the nation’s political divisions. The increase adds pressure on the world’s biggest producers who just signaled they may extend…

The Libyan Football Federation (LFF) has cancelled the National Football League for this season (2016-2017) citing acute shortages of financial support for the sports club, which will play in the league.According to the LFF official…

The authorities of the Tripoli-based Mitiga airport have issued a statement on Sunday banning five countries' nationals from obtaining entry visas to western Libya.The statement says that the nationals of Sudan, Egypt, Morocco,…

The Tripoli Security Department in cooperation with the Central Tripoli Municipality blocked last Thursday the entrances of the downtown Corinche by concrete barriers from Waddan Hotel to the Tripoli port roundabout.The move aims to…

North Korea said on Sunday it has detained another U.S. citizen on suspicion of "hostile acts" against the state, which would make him the fourth American to be held by the isolated country amid heightened diplomatic tensions with…

An agreement has been reached to evacuate fighters from the hardline group formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra from Yarmouk, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, to rebel-held Idlib province, Al-Jazeera reported.The agreement is the…