The High National Election Commission (HNEC) announced on Sunday that the aspiring nominees for the presidential and parliamentary elections, set for December 24, can officially file for candidacy tomorrow.
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Two people are dead and two others are reported missing following an accident that took place on Friday afternoon in the offshore platform of the Bouri oil field, which is operated by the Mellitah Oil and Gas company, Italian news agency Nova reported.
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The National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC) reported on Sunday that 648 people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 12 percent of the infection rate. The NCDC said that 21 others died of the virus, while 1,917 have recovered during the same reporting period.
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Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush denied today that she made any mention of Abu Agila Mohammed Masud, a former Libyan intelligence official suspected to be involved in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, during her recent interview with the BBC.
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The Government of National Unity, led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, confirmed reports that the Presidential Council suspended Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush as it publicly rejected the suspension and ordered the Libyan top diplomat to continue her job as regularly.
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The Libyan Presidential Council suspended on Saturday Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush over her making “unilateral foreign policy decisions without coordination [with the council], which constitutes a violation of the political agreement,” according to multiple press reports.
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Khaled Al-Mishri, the chairman of the High Council of State, has threatened to ignite violence in Libya’s western region of Tripolitania if Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the leader of the Libyan National Army (LNA), wins the upcoming presidential elections.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will participate in an international conference on Libya, which is going to take place in Paris on November 12, the press service of the Russian Embassy in France told TASS on Friday.
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Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh arrived yesterday in Istanbul where he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to the Libyan government’s media platform Hakomitna.
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The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has evacuated 172 migrants out of Libya to in Niger on the evening of 4 November. It was the first evacuation flight to Niger in more than a year, after the Libyan authorities lifted a blanket ban on humanitarian flights.
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