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| EU Approves Sending Security Advisers to Libya |
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110-member EU civilian team, expected to start deploying in Libya next month, will advise and train Libyan officials on how to strengthen the security of the country's land, sea and air borders, an EU statement said.
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| MEED, BM Libya Announce Projects 2013 Conference June 3-5 in Tripoli |
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In a few days' time, June 3-5, MEED and BM Libya will be organising a three-day conference at the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, titled Libya Projects 2013. The event, that is to be held under the patronage of the General National Congress of Libya is aimed at highlighting the key developments, opportunities and projects in Libya across various critical industries with involvement from around 300 key individuals.
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| Libya, Sudan and Egypt Agree on Developing Southern Border Region |
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Libya, Sudan and Egypt have agreed to work together to develop the border triangle and establish free trade zones that help improve living conditions of their peoples in the region.
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| Libya Diaspora Marketplace to Help People of Libya |
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Western Union have launched the Libya Diaspora Marketplace (LDM). It will award up to four winning businesses with matching grants of between $25,000 and $50,000 with accompanying technical assistance.
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| Minister of Justice Calls on Leaders of Armed Brigades to Abide by Law |
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The Libyan Minister of Justice has strongly condemned actions by armed groups, describing them as being illegal and counter to the legitimacy and sovereignty of the state; saying that individuals who commit such crimes will definitely be held accountable.
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| Ashton Appoints Bulgarian Diplomat to Head EU Delegation to Libya |
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Apostolova is currently the EU Deputy Head of Delegation to Egypt and has previously worked in the European Commission's Directorate General for Enlargement and at the Bulgarian Permanent Representation to the EU.
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| Draft Law That Protects the Rights of Traffic Policemen in Libya on Prime Minister’s Desk |
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A draft law aimed at enhancing the rights of the Libyan traffic police force has been sent to the office of the Prime Minister to be put before the General National Congress for approval. The new draft law is based on a number of European laws dealing with the matter.
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| Libya Green Mountain Fire Extinguished with Help from Italian Fire Fighters |
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The Libyan government announced Thursday that it has succeeded in extinguishing a fire in a wooded area in the Green Mountain in the east and it is to rent fire fighting planes.
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| Libya Announces Job Opening for the Chief of Staff of Libyan Army |
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Libya is now has a vacancy for the Chief of Staff of the Army position and accepts applications for the job; among the requirements that he must be a Libyan citizen, of Libyan parents and proves he has leadership qualifications among others.
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| Muslim Brotherhood Group in Libya Denies It is Instructed, Supported by Supreme Guide in Egypt |
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In an effort to clear its image and play down accusations that its loyalty lays outside Libya, the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood Group denied that it is receiving instructions and support from outside Libya, particularly from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
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| Suspects of Sept. 11 Attack on Benghazi US Consulate Reported Under Surveillance |
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Five men are under round-the-clock US surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last September 11 on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the killing of the US ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans weeks before President Barack Obama's re-election.
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| Opinion: What Drives Shinzo Abe? - By Gwynne Dyer |
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Shinzo Abe, now six months into his second try at being prime minister of Japan, is a puzzling man. In his first, spectacularly unsuccessful go in 2006-07, he was a crude nationalist and an economic ignoramus who rarely had control of his own dysfunctional cabinet. By the time he quit, after only a year in office, his popularity rating was below 30 percent and his health was breaking down.
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| Vanier's Plot for Saadi Gaddafi’s Escape From Libya Began Early 2011, Court Told |
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A court document filed by SNC-Lavalin alleges that a Canadian mediator and the bodyguard to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi, currently being given a safe haven in Niger, began planning the son’s escape from Libya as early as February 2011. And Canada was their first choice of destination in the early days of the uprising against the Gaddafi regime, it has been reported.
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| Opinion: Syria as a Game-Changer: US Political Impotence in the Middle East - by Ramzy Baroud |
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In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, “Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria.”
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| Libya Build 2013 Officially Opened |
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The 9th International Building & Construction Exhibition, titled Libya Build 2013 officially opened Sunday in the Sports City in the Gurji area of Libya's capital, Tripoli, with the participation of a record entry of 715 companies, that is 79 more than last year 83 more than the last time, in 2010, that the exhibition was organised before the 2011 revolution.
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| Kuwaiti Construction Group wins $930m from Libya, Reports |
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Kuwaiti newspapers reported on Monday that Libya will have to pay Kuwait's Kharafi group $930 million in damages for former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's decision to cancel the construction of a vacation resort in the Libyan capital, Tripoli that would have included hotel accommodation, villas and a shopping mall.
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| Opinion: Lacking Own Tools to Dismantle Legacy of Despotism, Libya is a Plum Ready for Picking – by Abdullah Elmaazi |
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Over one hundred years ago, the Syrian thinker and one of the pioneers of the Arab renaissance ‘Abd al-Raḥman al-Kawākibī in his treatise The Nature of Despotism wrote: “The end of the tyrannical state does not only affect the tyrants. The destruction engulfs the people, their land and their homes.
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| Libya Embarks on Building 232 New Sports Facilities |
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The Director of Project Management at the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Libya, Mr Hany Khchim revealed that his ministry will be embarking on an intensive project to enhance the country's sports facilities by building 232 new projects in in all the regions of Libya.
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