World News: Political News
House of Representatives Resumes Meeting in Tangier, Morocco.
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Tangier, 25 November 2020(Lana) The Libyan Parliament was convened for another on Wednesday in the Moroccan city of Tangier. On the agenda of today's meeting was discussing work mechanism for the coming period, to determine a possible general meeting of all members inside Libya. Moroccan Foreign Minister Naser Burita expressed hope that the consultative meeting would enable the House to play its role in the coming period. Burita said, at the consultative meeting of members of the Libyan Parliament, the gathering of 120 members representing the whole of Libya was a... Read more
Italy Renews Support for Outcome of Tunis Dialogue.
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Rome, 22 November 2020(Lana) Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has renewed his country's support for UN-led Libyan dialogue. This came in a telephone conversation Di Maio had with the UN Secretary General Special Representative Stephanie Williams, according to a statement by the Italian Foreign Ministry. Di Maio expressed his satisfaction for the adopting by the Libyan Political Dialogue of a roadmap namely the elections to be held on December 24,2021. He called for averting parallel approaches which could jeopardize the reference framework, stressing the need to... Read more
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Resumes Evacuation Flights for Rwandan Refugees.
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Tripoli, 22 November 2020(Lana) The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has evacuated 79 of asylum seekers from Libya to Rwanda, in a flight, the first in almost a year. The first evacuated group included men, women and children from Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia. =... Read more
Russian and Algerian Foreign Ministers Discuss Developments in Libya.
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Moscow, 22 November 2020(Lana) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavarov on Friday discussed with his Algerian Counterpart Sabri Bugadoum developments in Libya. In a statement posted to its SMS page, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Lavarov and Bugadoum exchanged viewpoints on a settlement of the Libyan crisis, adding that the two Ministers stressed the need for a political solution to the crisis under the auspices of the UN. =... Read more
NCDC registers 1015 new cases of COVID-19.
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Tripoli, 22 November 2020 (Lana) The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 1015 new cases of COVID-19, the recovery of 1327 cases, and death of 21 people during the past 24 hours. In statement Sunday, NCDC explained that it received 7698 swabs from across the country, of which 1015 proved positive using PCR Real Time Technique. The total number of COVID-19 cases since the outbreak of the pandemic totaled 77,823 cases of which 27,820 are active cases, the number of recoveries were 48,914, and 1089 died of the virus. =... Read more