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Libya was ranked first among African oil producers for the month of October, with its daily production growing by about 6 thousand barrels per day to around to 1.163 million barrels of oil per day, according to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

Libya’s Government of National Unity on Sunday summoned home its ambassador in Athens for consultation, in response to recent diplomatic controversy with Greece after the country’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias refused to get off the plane during an aborted visit to the capital Tripoli last week.

A recent press report alleges that the abduction of Masoud Abu Ajila al-Marimi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who is suspected of being involved in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, by unknown persons was the result of a deal between the United States and the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU), a press report claims.