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Libya’s parliament has met in the front-line city of Sirte for a crucial vote on whether to endorse a new interim unity government meant to oversee long-delayed elections this year under an international peace plan. More than 130 legislators on Monday began debating approving the cabinet formed by Abdelhamid Dbeibah, selected as interim prime minister at a forum held by the United Nations in Geneva last month. His government has the difficult task of leading the country to presidential and pa...

A United Nations-led Libya forum has voted on an interim government, choosing Mohammed al-Menfi as presidency council head and Abdulhamid Dbeibeh as prime minister. The election of a unified administration aims at ending a division in Libya that has lasted for more than five years, with two rival governments, and their affiliated armed groups, running different parts of the North African country. Seventy-four members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), which includes Libyans from dif...