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Richard Norland, the U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya, underscored the importance of transparency with voters in the upcoming Libyan elections during a conversation on Thursday with Wafia Saif al-Nasr, a member of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF).

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Members of Libya’s House of Representatives has called on the House Speaker Aguila Saleh to consider appointing former interior minister…

Hundreds of bodies of ISIS fighters killed in battle years ago are rotting in refrigerated food containers southeast of Misurata, Reuters reported.

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The UN Special Adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, was in Ankara on Friday where she met with Turkish Deputy Foreign…

More than 32,000 people were intercepted and returned to Libya last year, revealed the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) in a report released on Friday.

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Libya’s Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush has not returned to Libya to resume her duties for nearly a month due to a dispute between her and Ibrahim Dbeibeh, an advisor and cousin to Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, a Libyan press reports.

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A team of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders,  has treated 68 people who were injured during a mass arrest two days ago in Libya, when hundreds of migrants asking for protection were taken to a detention center in Ain Zara, MSF operations manager Ellen van der Velden said.

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Several members of Libya’s House of Representatives called on the Attorney-General to launch an investigation into corruption allegations against Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.

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Richard Norland, the U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya, met in Tunis today with Russian Chargé d’Affaires Jamshed Boltaev for talks on the Libyan elections, the U.S. Embassy in Libya said.

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Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh denies latest press reports which alleged that he met with David Barnea, the Head of the Israeli foreign intelligence body Mossad, in Jordan.

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