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By Sami Zaptia. Prime minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba said last week’s blackout was an act of political vandalism (Photo: Archives from GNU). London, 1 May 2021:   In a meeting with the HoR members and notables of Tajura, Libya’s prime minister, Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba, said that the last week’s total blackout was a deliberate act. He referred to the perpetrators as ‘‘enemies of the Libyan people, especially the igniters of wars, electricity cutters, the authors of the gasoline crisis, ...

2021-05-01 22:05:34 GMT2021-05-02 06:05:34(Beijing Time) Xinhua English TRIPOLI, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The Libyan navy on Saturday announced that a coast guard patrol rescued a total of 172 illegal immigrants off the countrys western coast. The 172 people were rescued off the coast of the city of Zawiya, some 45 km west of the capital Tripoli, after the patrol received a distress call, the Libyan navy said in a statement. "As soon as the rescue operation was completed, the illegal immigrants...

Forget Top Gun: The F-14 Tomcat Worked Hard to Become a Legend The United States Navy continued to rely on the F-14 throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, where it was utilized in strike escort and reconnaissance roles in Operation Desert Storm. Heres What You Need to Remember: While the F-14 was retired from service with the Navy, and supplanted by the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, the Tomcat remains in use with the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force. Only a handful of the planes, which were ...

London, 28 April 2021: Libya’s Prime minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba vowed yesterday to visit Benghazi soon and that he would not let ”minor impediments” stop him and his government. The pledge came during a cabinet meeting during which he read out his government’s achievements in its short time in office. The comment by Aldabaiba came after a plane carrying his forward security team was prevented from disembarking their plane at Benghazi’s Benina airport Sunday. Hafter’s army comman...

‘Turkey’s Colosseum’ unearthed in remote fig orchard Nick Squires Save Share Rome | A Roman amphitheatre that would have hosted gladiator contests has been discovered in Turkey after lying hidden for centuries. The arena, which could seat around 20,000 spectators, was found near the ancient city of Mastaura in the western province of Aydin, inland from the Aegean coast. The stone arches that formed the outer walls of the amphitheatre are visible but most of the structure is burie...

Déby’s death: A microcosm of the flaws of French foreign policy in Libya French President Emmanuel Macron flanked by Mahamat Idriss Deby, son of the late Chadian president, arrives to attend the state funeral for the late Chadian President Idriss Deby in NDjamena, Chad April 23, 2021. Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool via REUTERS On April 20, after clashes that pitted the Chadian national army against rebels in the Kanem region of northern Chad, the country’s President Idriss Déby was killed. ...

One of north Africa’s most notorious human traffickers, accused of extorting and torturing thousands of refugees and migrants in Libya, has been found guilty on five counts of smuggling and trafficking in Ethiopia. Tewelde Goitom, known as “Welid”, operated in Libya between roughly 2014 and 2018 and is thought to have been at the heart of a highly lucrative and brutal trade trafficking desperate migrants trying to reach Europe. Goitom was...

If you’re like me and you’ve watched one too many tarot reading videos and explainers of why Scorpios are Like That, you’re probably wondering why your spirituality-inclined TikTok For You Page is now filled with users lamenting that a tiny green piece of glass took their boyfriend away or disbanded their once tight-knit squad. The culprit? Moldavite: a rare tektite (not a crystal!) formed when a meteorite hit the earth in central Europe around 15 million years ago. Unlike crystals, whic...

Response to "What is Progressive Realism" ["But the article was essentially about describing the differences between schools of thought while obviously giving evidence the author thought supported a different school than has predominated and was making a case for trying something different"] Robert Wright in the 2nd paragraph makes "realist" a synonym for Kissingers cynical "realpolitik", thus loading any "realist" with the baggage of Kissingers policies in Vietnam, turning a blind eye to dis...

How two F-14 Tomcats shot down two Gaddafi’s MiG-23s, On This Day in 1989 How two F-14 Tomcats shot down two Gaddafi’s MiG-23s, On This Day in 1989 U.S. Navy F-14 vs Libyan MiG-23. After two F-14 Tomcats from the VF-41 Black Aces shot down two Su-22 Fitters on Aug. 19, 1981 and, above all, after Operation El Dorado Canyon, the air strike launched on Apr. 15, 1986, against Libya, Colonel Gaddafi and its regime went off the U.S. high priority agenda. But in late 1988, tensions between Washing...