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Khaled Al-Mishri, Chairman of Libya’s High Council of State, is allegedly plotting with armed groups to coercively close a number of polling centers across the country’s western region including in the municipalities of Al-Zawiya, Zliten, Tajoura, Al-Jabal and Souq Al-Juma, Libyan newspaper Al-Marsad reported on Monday.

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The Libyan Ministry of Justice is planning to hold “in the coming weeks” a conference on “transitional justice and human rights”, which will be organized in coordination with the Supreme Judicial Council, according to a statement by the Presidential Council today.

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Military prosecutor in Tripoli directed a letter on Thursday to the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) requesting the suspension of…

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, officially announced that he will run for president in the upcoming elections on December 24.

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The Tripoli-based Coast Guard intercepted on Saturday 61 migrants of several African and Arab nationalities who were on their way to European shores on a rubber boat.
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Libya Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh has confirmed his intention to hand over power if the elections are held “in a fair and consensual manner”. 

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Turkey has reservations about pulling troops from Libya but Russia has said it was willing to back a reciprocal withdrawal of foreign forces from the north African country, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday.

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World powers will push for sanctions against anyone who disrupts Libya’s political transition, their leaders agreed at a Paris conference on Friday aimed at ensuring the country sticks to a plan to hold elections in December.

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Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, will attend the Paris Conference on Libya, according to GNU Spokesman, Mohamed Hammouda.
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Twenty two leaders of armed groups in the Western region published a statement on Tuesday declaring their refusal to holding Libya elections based the laws approved by the House of Representatives (HoR), in clear and explicit support for the position of the prominent leader at the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood Group, Khalid al-Mishri.
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