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Mussa Koni, deputy chairman of the Presidential Council, held talks with the E.U. Ambassador José Sabadell in Tripoli yesterday to specifically discuss steps taken by the EU in the framework of its support for the Libyan elections, including the deployment of European monitors.

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Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh will contest an appeal which was filed to exclude him from the presidential race on December 24, Italian news agency Nova reports.

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Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh is temporarily out of the race for the presidential elections which should be held on December 24.

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Mayor of Benghazi, Saqr Bujwari, discussed on Saturday with a delegation of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) ways for the Company to return to work in Benghazi for completing several suspended projects, according to Benghazi Municipality.
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, evacuated on Thursday 93 asylum seekers to Italy from Libya, “where they had been living in precarious situations with an uncertain future,” according to UNHCR.
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The Tripoli-based Coast Guard has intercepted 112 migrants of various African and Arab nationalities, who were attempting to reach European shores on a rubber dinghy.
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The Libyan High National Elections Commission (HNEC) will determine whether it will be possible to commit to the December 24 official date for the presidential elections by the end of the appeals stage, the commission’s chairman said.

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Forces of the Libyan National Army (LNA) has secured the security situation in Sabha is under control following an attack on the city’s court of appeal by unknown armed group on Thursday.

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A source at the Libyan 5+5 Joint Military Committee (JMC) said that it is likely that the Committee will set a timetable and specific dates to remove mercenaries from Libya directly after a meeting to be held next month in Turkey, and then in another meeting in Russia.
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The 5+5 Joint Military Committee, a structure composed of five members representing Libya’s warring parties, is in Tunis to begin a new series of talks about expelling foreign forces from the country, according to media reports.

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