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Governer of CBL: Al-Serraj wanted to sell Libya’s gold reserves

Oct 27, 2016

The Governer of the Central Bank of Libya, Al-Seddiq Al-Kabeer, revealed Wednesday that the Prime Minister of the Government of National Accord and Head of the Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Serraj, demanded the selling of Libya's gold…

UN delegate to Libya says Libyan Political Agreement will expire before it takes effect

Oct 27, 2016

The UN delegate to Libya, Martin Kobler, warned on Wednesday that the constitutional validity of the Skhirat-signed agreement is going to end this December.Kobler indicated in a conference at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo,…

UK former foreign Minister says Britain negotiated IRA victims compensation during Gaddafi reign

Oct 27, 2016

The former foreign secretary of the UK, Jack Straw, has denied that IRA victims killed and injured by Libyan-supplied Semtex were ignored during negotiations with the Gaddafi regime.Straw said the issue of compensation for IRA…

MSF rescues 25 migrants from a stranded dinghy off Libya’s coast

Oct 27, 2016

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it had rescued Wednesday 25 illegal immigrants from a dinghy off the Libyan coast.MSF stated that on another incident on Tuesday, its teams off the Libyan coast rescued other migrants as well,…

Syrian and Russian airstrikes on Idlib kill schoolchildren

Oct 26, 2016

More than 20 people, many of them children, have been killed in air strikes on a rebel-held village in north-western Syria, activists say.A school complex was reportedly among several locations targeted in the village of Haas, in…

Filipino President says US troops must leave his country within two years

Oct 26, 2016

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has said he wants US troops to leave the country, possibly within two years.Speaking while on a state visit to Japan, he also called for an "independent foreign policy".Under a current…

Women work 39 more days than men, World Economic Forum says

Oct 26, 2016

Women work on average 39 more days a year than men according to the World Economic Forum.Women work on average 50 minutes more a day than men, data from the WEF's Global Gender Gap report suggests.The report says the prevalence…

Obama’s Snapchat experience with his daughter sparks ridicule

Oct 26, 2016

President Barack Obama has disclosed that his youngest daughter recently mocked him on Snapchat.The US leader said Sasha had recorded him discussing the social network at a family dinner and then quietly posted a reaction to her…

Sea Watch urges EU to give a second thought on training Libyan coastguards after recent attack

Oct 26, 2016

Sea Watch - a German aid group - urged the European Union on Tuesday to reconsider its plans to train Libyan forces to conduct sea rescue operations after a vessel labeled as belonging to them attacked a dinghy full of migrants last…

US to broker reconciliation meeting between Libya’s rival governments in Saudi Arabia

Oct 26, 2016

The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, announced days ago in a joint presser with the Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir, in Washington that the US had been contacting all the rival governments in Libya to try and gather them to…

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