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Brazilian police arrests 10 people “preparing terror attacks” in Rio Olympic Games

Jul 21, 2016

Brazilian police have arrested 10 members of a group alleged to be preparing acts of terrorism, two weeks before the start of the Olympic Games.They were not members of so-called Islamic State but had tried to make contact with the…

Fierce clashes in Sirte between Libyan forces and ISIS, 11 killed

Jul 21, 2016

The media office of the Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous operation led by Misurata-led Libyan forces has announced that 11 of their forces were killed in Thursday fierce clashes in downtown Sirte against the ISIS militants who are barricading in an…

CNN Money: Libya could be the revival of oil market

Jul 21, 2016

One of the biggest mysteries in the oil market resides in the war-torn nation of Libya.A long civil war and the rise of ISIS have limited Libya's oil production to just a fraction of what it was in 2010, before the uprising that…

Presidential Council denounced French violation of Libya’s sovereignty

Jul 21, 2016

The Presidential Council of the UN-backed Government of National Accord issued a statement Wednesday condemning the violation of the French troops of the Libyan sovereignty, denouncing the announcement made by the French for having a…

Donald Trump says US might not defend NATO allies if he was the President

Jul 21, 2016

The US may not come to the aid of its Nato allies under attack if Donald Trump becomes president because domestic issues in America must be given priority, the Republican hopeful has said.Mr Trump's remarks are at odds with Nato’s…

21 migrants drowned off Libyan coast, hundreds rescued

Jul 21, 2016

The bodies of 21 women and one man have been found "in a pool of fuel" at the bottom of a rubber dinghy adrift near the Libyan coast, just hours after they had set sail for Italy, according to the humanitarian group Doctors Without…

Turkey suspends EU Convention on Human Rights

Jul 21, 2016

Turkey will temporarily suspend the European Convention on Human Rights after announcing a state of emergency following the attempted coup.Deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Thursday that Turkey would follow the example…

Libyan female Olympic swimmer in Rio 2016 to defy stereotypes

Jul 21, 2016

Few Libyan women would wear a swimming costume in public, but Daniah Hagul wants to help change a conservative society when she competes at the Rio Olympics.In Libya "a significant number of boys but hardly any other girls swim, so…

Odour of hens can protect humans against malaria, research says

Jul 21, 2016

The smell from a live chicken could help protect against malaria, researchers have found.Ethiopian and Swedish scientists discovered that malarial mosquitoes tend to avoid chickens and other birds.The experiments, conducted in…

LAPAC files lawsuit at ICC over stolen Libyan oil

Jul 21, 2016

The Libyan American Public Affairs Center (LAPAC) said it had filed a lawsuit at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against whom it described the figures who shut down Libya's oil production and committed a crime by trapping Libyans…

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