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UNDP: Solar power system in Abu Salim Hospital fully installed

Jan 19, 2017

The Abu Salim Hospital of Accidents has announced that the solar system that has been installed by the UN Development Programme in Libya (UNDP) is now ready to work after being tested by the projects' engineers.Abu Salim…

Avalanche hits central Italy hotel, over 30 people missing

Jan 19, 2017

Rescuers say up to 30 people are missing after a hotel in central Italy was hit by an avalanche, apparently triggered by an earthquake, the BBC wrote.It added that rescuers battled overnight to reach the Rigopiano hotel, with the…

US delegate to Libya urges world powers to end Libya’s political impasse

Jan 19, 2017

The United States delegate to Libya, Jonathan Winer, has urged the world and regional countries to help Libya out of its current political stalemate.Winer tweeted on Thursday that Libya is now in need for what he described a a grand…

Water supplies return to Tripoli after a week of outage

Jan 19, 2017

The residents of Tripoli had to endure a full week of water outage amid the ongoing dilemmas of power outage and cooking gas shortage.On Thursday morning, sources from the capital said water has returned to some of the areas and…

Russia, Turkey conduct joint airstrikes on IS in Syria

Jan 19, 2017

Russia and Turkey join forces to launch airstrikes against militants in SyriaThe joint attack is the latest example of Moscow co-opting a key NATO member as it tries to, again, become a superpower. Russian led peace talks are due to…

Senegal moves troops to Gambia’s border to press Jammeh into stepping down

Jan 18, 2017

BBC - Senegalese troops have moved towards the Gambian border in a show of force to pressure President Yahya Jammeh to stand down.Senegal gave him a midnight GMT deadline to quit as west African states sought UN authorisation to use…

2016 proves to have been warmest year since 1880

Jan 18, 2017

BBC - Temperature data for 2016 shows it is likely to have edged ahead of 2015 as the world's warmest year.Data from Nasa and the UK Met Office shows temperatures were about 0.07 degrees Celsius above the 2015 mark.Although…

Italy to resume giving Schengen visa for Libyans from Tripoli

Jan 18, 2017

The Italian Ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Perrone, said his country's embassy in Tripoli will start granting Libyans Schengen visas in February.In a meeting with the Head of the High Council of State, Abdel Rahman Al-Swehli,…

Al-Serraj and Mogherini discuss more EU support for GNA

Jan 18, 2017

The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Accord, Fayez Al-Serraj, met on Tuesday with the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, to discuss the security situation in…

UN delegate to Libya hindered from landing in Tobruk

Jan 18, 2017

The UN delegate to Libya and the Head of the UNSMIL, Martin Kobler was denied access to land his UN plane in Tobruk airport on Wednesday morning.On Twitter Wednesday, Kobler said he felt sorry that his UN plane was not allowed to…

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