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Talal Al-Maihoub, a member of Libya’s House of Representatives, said on Saturday that the future defense minister must be named by the Libyan National Army (LNA), warning that there will be a crisis regarding passing the budget if no defense minister was named.

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One policeman was killed and another was injured during a Friday night attack on the Commercial Bank by an unknown armed group in Ubari, the interior minister said in a statement on Saturday.

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Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, visited on Saturday a number of quarantine facilities in Tripoli to review their work and housing capacities, according to a statement by the government.

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Senior officials at the European Union’s Operation IRINI were denied visa entry to Libya by the Libyan government, IRINI commander revealed on Saturday.

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Libya’s Minister of Social Affairs, Wafaa Al-Kilani, met on Wednesday with Cristina Albertin, the Regional Representative for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in the Middle East and North Africa, to discuss joint projects, training and the migration crisis, according to a statement by the Ministry of Social Affairs.

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The number of COVID-19 cases recorded in Libya in the last 24 hours is a “dangerous and unprecedented indicator”, said Badr Al-Din Al-Najjar, the Director of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC).

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Samuel Werberg, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, said on Saturday that the presence of foreign forces and mercenaries in Libya is the biggest obstacle to the peace process in the country, calling on Turkey and Russia to withdraw their fighters.

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The Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Unity, Abdel Hamid Dbiebeh, affirmed that no foreign force or mercenaries will remain anywhere in Libya.
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The Libyan High State Council (HSC) announced Saturday the death of its First Deputy Head , Muhammed Baqi.
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Upon the request of members of the Proposals Bridging Committee of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) facilitated on Thursday a virtual meeting of the Committee to continue the efforts to find common ground and complete the development of a constitutional basis that will enable the holding of national elections on 24 December 2021 in line with the LPDF roadmap, according to UNSMIL.
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