World News: Political News
IMF ready to support reconstruction of Libya.
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Tripoli, 01.09.2015(Lana) IMF expressed readiness to support efforts to rebuild Libya, stressing that it follows up dialogue sessions between the relevant parties. IMF posksperson said in a press statement that IMF hopes that UN sponsored Libyan dialogue would lead to quick agreement that ends the crisis and paves the way for reconstruction and establishing a government of national unity. The IMF spokesperson said current conflict in Libya led to tragic human and economic losses, expressing the fund's hope that the political accord in Libya would lead to solving the... Read more
UN envoy to Libya holds consultation in Istanbul with GNC representatives.
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Tripoli, 01.09.2015(Lana) Head of UNSMIL, Bernardino Leon is holding Tuesday consultations in Istanbul with GNC representatives to discuss ways to proceed with the dialogue process to reach a peaceful solution to the political crisis in Libya. UNSMIL said on its website that the meeting precedes a dialogue session in Geneva September 3 during which amendments submitted by the GNC would be discussed to finalize the political accord including an agreement on a national consensus government. The UN envoy renewed to the parties taking part in dialogue to consider the interest... Read more
A tanker loaded with one million barrels of crude oil at Al-Hariqa oil port.
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Benghazi, 01.09.2015(Lana) A Libyan oil official said Tuesday that a tanker is currently loaded with one million barrels of crude oil at Al-Hariqa port in Toboruk, east of Libya. The port is operated by Arab Gulf Oil Company. Several oil fields and ports such as Al-Zawitina, Sedr and Rasanouf closed due to turmoil. The country's oil production is down to less than 400,000 bpd. =... Read more
Algeria and Mali call on Libyans to be committed to dialogue.
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Algeria, 01.09.2015 (Lana) Algeria and Mali have called on Libyans to be committed sincerely and in good will to dialogue, expressing profound concern over the situation in Libya. In a joint statement during a visit by the Malian president Ibrahim Abubaker Kiata to Algeria that the two countries' presidents expressed their profound concern over the situation in Libya threatening the very bases of the Libyan nation as well stability and security of the region'. Both Presidents Bautaflika and Kiata stressed the need to respect ceasefire over all Libyan territories,... Read more
Israel Occupation Forces Re-arrest Freed Palestinian Prisoner.
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Jenin, West Bank, 1 September 2105(Lana) Israeli occupation forces arrested late Monday a Palestinian man who was a former prisoner, his mother, his son and his sister. Dozens suffered suffocation and injuries when Israeli forces broke in the town of Jenin in the West Bank and deliberately rundown a boy. The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that dozens were injured in Jenin when the Israeli forces used gas canisters. Some had to be admitted into hospital, it said. Sources of the civil defense and the Red Crescent said fierce clashes erupted in the town between... Read more