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The National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC) has reported on Sunday that 2,003 people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 27 percent of the infection rate. The NCDC said that 19 others died of the virus, while 910 have recovered during the same reporting period.

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Ján Kubiš, the U.N. Envoy to Libya, discussed the latest developments in the country with the Libyan National Army’s representatives of the 5+5 Joint Military Committee during a meeting at the LNA’s headquarters in the eastern town of Rajma on Saturday, according to a brief statement by the LNA’s General Command.

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The Libyan House of Representatives will convene a regular session on Monday after Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh refused to comply with a parliamentary subpoena, the House spokesman Abdullah Blehaq announced on Saturday.

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Italy and Russia share the “urgent need” to continue supporting the internal Libyan negotiations, because joint cooperation between the two countries on Libya is “pivotal”, the Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told reporters on Friday during a press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Rome.

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Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), discussed with Ján Kubiš, the U.N. Envoy to Libya, the latest developments in the country during a Saturday meeting at the LNA’s headquarters in the eastern town of Rajma, according to a brief statement by the LNA’s General Command.

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At least 130 migrants were rescued and brought back to Tripoli on Friday evening after their two boats capsized at sea, the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) announced on early Saturday morning.

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The Government of National Unity (GNU) acts as a party that had won power, not as a government of national unity, said member of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), Abdussalam Nassiya.
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Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh, Head of the Government of National Unity (GNU), said that 10,000 terrorists came to Libya from abroad, including some neighboring countries.
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The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) welcomed on Thursday the creation of a new joint force, from both sides of the demarcation lines, comprising the 166 Battalion for Protection and Security from Misrata and the Tareq Bin Ziyad Brigade of the Libyan National Army (LNA), which has been tasked to secure the Great Man-Made River (MMR).
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High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has announced his visit to Iraq, Tunisia and Libya next September.
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