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Tuesday, 23 April 2013 15:08
TRIPOLI - A car bomb has exploded outside the French embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli, wounding two French guards and several residents. The blast in Tripoli destroyed the embassy's ground-floor reception area and perimeter wall, as well as damaging neighbouring...Read More
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Friday, 25 January 2013 09:45
TRIPOLI - Britons should leave the Libyan city of Benghazi immediately in response to a "specific, imminent threat" to Westerners, the Foreign Office says. The British Embassy in Tripoli has been in contact with a "small number" of British nationals whose...Read More
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Tuesday, 16 October 2012 14:51
BENGHAZI - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she takes responsibility for the security failure at the Benghazi consulate that led to the killing of four Americans in Libya last month. Mrs Clinton said ensuring the safety of US diplomatic...Read More
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Monday, 08 October 2012 15:53
TRIPOLI - Libya's Prime Minister-elect has been dismissed from his post, after failing for a second time to win parliamentary approval for a new cabinet. Mustafa Abu Shagur had called for the formation of an "emergency government", consisting of just 10...Read More
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Thursday, 27 September 2012 15:09
TRIPOLI - A newly formed unit of the Libyan Army has carried out nonviolent raids on rogue militia positions in and around Tripoli as part of a government ultimatum issued over the weekend. Armed groups must either align themselves with the...Read More
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Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:05
WASHINGTON - The United States ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed in a rocket attack on the American Consulate in the city of Benghazi on Tuesday, a contractor working at the mission said Wednesday after seeing Stevens' body. Three...Read More
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