Tripoli (AFP) - The prime minister of Libya's internationally recognised government, Abdullah al-Thani, announced his resignation during a live television interview late on Tuesday. "If my exit is the solution, then I announce it here"," al-Thani said during the talk show, adding that "my resignation will be submitted to the parliament on Sunday".

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Author: Mustafa Fetouri Posted August 4, 2015 A court in Tripoli sentenced Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, and eight former officials to death by firing squad. Saif al-Islam was not present at the court but appeared via video at the start of the proceedings.

Hundreds of British troops are being lined up to go to Libya as part of a major new international mission to help stabilise the North African country and combat Islamic State.

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A court in Libya has sentenced Saif al-Islam, the most prominent son of Libya's slain leader Muammar Gaddafi, to death by firing squad. He was sentenced in absentia on Tuesday by a court in the capital, Tripoli, along with eight other senior members of the former regime, which was overthrown in 2011.

ROMA - Il quotidiano online libico Akhbar Libia24, citando fonti di Sabrata, città sulla costa nord-occidentale del Paese, ha scritto che " i quattro italiani rapiti sarebbero stati portati in una zona desertica dove è facile trovare nascondigli".

Benghazi - At least 40 people have been killed in a week of ethnic clashes in southern Libya between rival gunmen from the Toubou and Tuareg minorities, a local official said. The latest fighting centred on the oasis city of Sabha, the largest in the Libyan Sahara, the official said.

David Cameron has opened the door to air strikes in Libya, saying it is his duty to act against Islamist terrorists wherever they may be, if they pose a specific threat to British people.

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The four employees of construction company Bonatti were kidnapped near a compound owned by Italian oil and gas group Eni in the Mellitah area, the ministry said in a statement. Italy closed its embassy in Libya in February as the North African country sunk further into violence, with two rival governments operating their own armed forces under separate parliaments, four years after a civil war that ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.

16 July 2015 - The United Nations Security Council has welcomed the initialling of the Libyan political agreement in Skhirat, Morocco on 11 July as the latest step towards resolving the country's political crisis. The agreement's initialling is the result of ongoing UN-facilitated consultations between various Libyan parties and comes amid sporadic fighting across the North African country.

L'ACCORDO di pace e di riconciliazione proposto dall'Onu per la Libia è stato firmato oggi a Skhirat in Marocco, a sud di Rabat. Ma - particolare non del tutto trascurabile - al testo preparato con scrupolo e attenzione dall'inviato Onu, il diplomatico spagnolo Bernardino Leon, manca la firma di una delle due parti in conflitto e che controllano la Libia: il Parlamento islamista di Tripoli.

Escalating tensions in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi and the heavy civilian casualties have caught the attention of UN Special envoy Bernardino Leon who condemned the hostilities and warned concerned parties to refrain from such actions because it could lead to war crime charges.

By Aziz El Yaakoubi RABAT (Reuters) - U.N.-brokered talks between Libya's two rival governments hit a setback on Thursday when one of the sides stayed away from the negotiations in Morocco, saying it needed more time for consultations.

CAIRO - Representatives of Libya's internationally-recognized parliament have suspended their participation in United Nations-brokered talks over a proposed power-sharing scheme with a rival Islamist-led government. A spokesman for the parliament's negotiators, Essa Abdel-Kauoum, told The Associated Press the council made its decision on Tuesday after U.N.

CAIRO - Islamic State militants staged attacks near Baghdad and the Libyan city of Surt on Tuesday, underscoring the group's persistent strength on both fronts despite a monthslong American-led air campaign against it in Syria and Iraq.

Saif al-Islam, the most high-profile of Gaddafi's seven sons, has been on trial together with former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi. Any verdict on Saif would be in absentia since he has been held since 2011 by a former rebel group in Zintan that opposes the Tripoli government.

Dopo gli ultimi attacchi condotti dall'Esercito libico contro le postazioni dello Stato Islamico nell'area di Bengasi, l'ufficio stampa dell'ISIS nella Provincia di Barqa (Cirenaica) ha pubblicato le fotografie e i nomi dei combattenti uccisi, evidenziando la forte presenza di combattenti algerini, tunisini, sudanesi ed egiziani tra le sue fila.

Più di 300 leader tribali libici partecipano da ieri ad un summit di quattro giorni al Cairo per trovare una soluzione alla violenza islamista. Non invitati i gruppi islamisti.

Storia dell'articolo Questo articolo è stato pubblicato il 17 aprile 2015 alle ore 07:32.L'ultima modifica è del 17 aprile 2015 alle ore 08:00. L'intervento anglo-francese in Libia nel 2011, avallato dagli americani con i raid aerei, è stato un disastro persino più insanabile dell'Iraq perché questo Paese, un tempo in pugno al dittatore Gheddafi, non ha più neppure una capitale.

Nearly four years after NATO-backed rebels toppled the former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, the North Africa country has plunged into chaotic unrest. The failure of last year's election to achieve political unity in Libya was most evident when Fajr Libya, or "Libya Dawn" - a diverse coalition of armed groups that includes an array of Islamist militias - rejected the election's outcome and seized control of Tripoli.

Crude revenues are at the heart of a battle for control of the North African OPEC producer that has pitted the two rival governments against each other in a growing conflict, four years after the civil war ousted strongman Muammar Gaddafi.