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From the archive: The greatest Mercedes youve never heard of Autosport 15/02/2021 © LAT Images The greatest Mercedes youve never heard of It only raced once, but the 1939 W165 could be the most remarkable of all Silver Arrows, thanks to some controversial race organising and a secret project. KEVIN TURNER told its story in the 29 December 2016 issue of Autosport magazine The Italians were fed up. Having seen off Ettore Bugatti - an Italian working in France anyway - Alfa Romeo had dominate...

By Sami Zaptia. London, 15 February 2021: The two newly selected heads-designate of Libya’s executive, head of the Presidency Council Mohamed Menfi and Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba have continued their familiarization meetings since being selected by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) in Geneva on 5 February. The designated prime minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba, met with the Tripoli Central Bank of Libya (CBL) Governor yesterday, Saddik El-Kabir. Th...

Will Peace Ever Come to Libya or Will Outside Powers Ruin Any Deal? The Libyan Civil War is at another juncture, but there is no shortage of actors who could spoil any attempt at peace. Parties who stand to lose from progress toward a permanent peace deal in Libya will try to halt the process, and will create ground realities that limit the implementation of any agreement that does emerge. The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) approved a voting mechanism Jan. 19 to select a new transition...

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SHARE The President of Libya’s newly elected interim government, Mohamed Menfi, advocated unity and “true reconciliation” in his first trip to the country’s eastern region. At a UN-sponsored conference in Geneva last week, delegates from Libya’s warring sides picked four leaders to guide the nation to elections in December. “Our objective is to achieve unity and true reconciliation and to collaborate with all in order to end the suffering,” Mr Menfi tweeted shortly before his arri...

Turkish troops stationed in Libya will remain there as long as a bilateral military agreement between Ankara and Tripoli is active and Libya’s government requests it, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Thursday.

SHARE The Sahara is one of the most inhospitable places on the planet. Stretching 9,200,000 square kilometres across North Africa, it is the largest hot desert in the world. But as recently as 6,000 years ago, it was teeming with life. Research recently published in Nature Geoscience uncovers the nature of this and other “greening phases”, occurring every 20,000 years and lasting approximately 5,000, when the desert was brought to life. Through drilling up sediment cores in the Gulf of Sirt...

Image: Hokyoung Kim for NPR Stuck on a stalled motorized inflatable raft in the open sea, 15-year-old Tsedal began to panic. She and the other passengers, more than 60 migrants from the African countries of Eritrea and Sudan, had set off from neighboring Libya, where their lives had become unbearable. They were trying to cross more than 100 miles of the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. Repeated distress calls brought no help. The passengers were suffering from dehydration and sunstroke. Two ...

Mohammad Younes Menfi, chairman of Libya’s Presidential Council, meets with politicians, tribal leaders and activists.