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141 killed in south Libya airbase attack

An attack on an airbase in south Libya has killed 141 people, mostly soldiers loyal to military strongman Khalifa Haftar, a spokesman for his...

Libya intercepts almost 500 migrants after sea duel

Libya's coastguard intercepted a wooden boat packed with almost 500 migrants after duelling with a German rescue ship and coming under fire from traffickers,...

Oil falls as Libya expands output

Oil declined as rigs targeting crude in the US rose for a fifteenth week and output from Libya rebounded. Futures in New York lost as...

Child among seven migrant bodies found off Libya

The bodies of seven migrants, including a small boy, were found during the latest rescue operations off Libya, a Maltese NGO and the Italian...

8 nurses back after IS ordeal, DFA says

EIGHT Filipino nurses who were held hostage by the Daesh in Libya are back in the Philippines but the government fears “three or more”...

Italy rescues 630 migrants drifting off Libya

Italy's coast guard has rescued about 630 migrants off the coast of Libya who were trying to cross the Mediterranean. The two rescue operations came...

Parsing Trump

“Trump: no visas for 7 Muslim countries!” cried out the story headline in this paper last Sunday. As it turned out, the reality was less...

A blunt and counter productive travel ban

By Mohamed A. El-Erian Some bold and simple policies have merit; Friday’s executive order that temporarily bans the citizens of certain countries from coming to...

Hijackers of Libyan plane surrender in Malta

Two men used fake weapons Friday to hijack a Libyan plane with 117 people on board and divert it to Malta, before releasing everyone...

Up to 25 feared dead in raid on migrant boat off Libya

Up to 25 people were missing and feared drowned Friday after men on a Libyan coastguard speedboat attacked a packed migrant dinghy during a rescue operation...

They miss life under Kadhafi

TRIPOLI"•Five years after an uprising killed Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi, residents in the chaos-wracked country’s capital joke they have grown to miss the longtime dictator...

6,500 migrants saved off Libya

Rome—The Italian coastguard said it had coordinated the rescue on Monday of about 6,500 migrants off of Libya in one of its busiest days...

Libyan forces push into last IS-held areas of Sirte

Forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity government pushed into the last areas of Sirte held by the Islamic State group in what was the...

Libya fighting hard to increase oil rices

TRIPOLI"•Jihadist attacks and political struggles are thwarting the attempts by Libya’s unity government to revive an oil industry seen as vital for the economy...
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