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John Murray cradled his friend WPC Yvonne Fletcher as she lay dying in a London ...

The Daily Mail 27 May 2023
At the wheel was Ahmed, a man he had met at Tripoli airport a few months previously who had offered to help him ... Retired police officer John Murray carries a photo of Yvonne Fletcher outside the Royal Courts of Justice ... But in March 2004, Murray's hopes were raised when the Cabinet Office told him Blair was to visit Colonel Gaddafi in Tripoli.
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Bashagha removed by eastern-based parliament amid Libya’s shifting sands

The Arab Weekly 17 May 2023
TRIPOLI – ... In March of last year, Bashagha had taken the oath of office before parliament and began exercising his duties from Sirte after being tasked with forming a new government. Parliament intended Bashagha to replace Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah after deciding that the Tripoli-based premier’s term in office had ended.
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Libya’s parliament replaces Bashagha as its appointed PM

The Arab Weekly 16 May 2023
Bashagha was appointed in March 2022 but his efforts to enter Tripoli and take office ended in battles between factions aligned with him and others aligned with Dbeibah, and he has had to operate outside Tripoli with no control of state finances.
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Libyan parliament replaces its appointed prime minister

The New Arab 16 May 2023
Bashagha was appointed in March 2022 but his efforts to enter Tripoli and take office ended in battles between factions aligned with him and others aligned with Dbeibah, and he has had to operate outside Tripoli with no control of state finances.
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Libyan parliament replaces its appointed PM, spokesperson says

Reuters 16 May 2023
Bashagha was appointed in March 2022 but his efforts to enter Tripoli and take office ended in battles between factions aligned with him and others aligned with Dbeibah, and he has had to operate outside Tripoli with no control of state finances.
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Libyan parliament suspends its prime minister Fathi Bashagha

Hindustan Times 16 May 2023
The chamber, backed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar, had picked Bashagha in February last year to lead a government to replace that of Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah, who sits in Tripoli. In July, Bashagha had told AFP that he planned to take office in Tripoli "in the coming days.".
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Libya Parliament votes to replace PM Fathi Bashagha - spokesperson

Middle East Monitor 16 May 2023
According to the report, Bashagha failed to take office in Tripoli where the incumbent Abdulhamid Al-Dbeibah has refused to cede power.
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Prosecutor says International Criminal Court issues 4 arrest warrants for alleged crimes in Libya

Wtop 12 May 2023
Oil-rich Libya was then split by rival administrations, one in the east, backed by military commander Khalifa Hifter, and a U.N.-supported administration in the west, in the capital of Tripoli ... He told the council a team from his office will travel to the country again in the coming weeks and he hopes to establish a field office in Tripoli.
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ICC issues four new arrest warrants in Libya war crimes investigation

Arab News 12 May 2023
NEW YORK CITY ... Khan said he had also applied for an additional two warrants in the past few weeks ... Both men have yet to stand trial at the Hague in the Netherlands where the ICC is located ... Khan said that he planned for members of his team to travel to Libya to coordinate with Libyan authorities and establish a field office in the capital Tripoli ... ....
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Prosecutor: International Criminal Court issues 4 arrest warrants for alleged crimes in Libya

The Associated Press 11 May 2023
Oil-rich Libya was then split by rival administrations, one in the east, backed by military commander Khalifa Hifter, and a U.N.-supported administration in the west, in the capital of Tripoli ... He told the council a team from his office will travel to the country again in the coming weeks and he hopes to establish a field office in Tripoli.
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Pakistanis among dozens dead as two migrant boats sink off Libya

Dawn 26 Apr 2023
TRIPOLI ... Eleven bodies, including that of a child, were recovered off Qarabulli in eastern Tripoli, said coast guard officer Fathi al-Zayani ... A Red Crescent aid worker in Sabratha in western Tripoli said they had recovered 46 bodies in the past six days from the beach and they were all “illegal migrants” from one boat.
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Dozens of bodies float ashore in Libya after migrant boats sink

Reuters 25 Apr 2023
TRIPOLI, April 25 (Reuters) - At least 57 bodies have been washed ashore after two migrant boats sank in the Mediterranean off different towns in western Libya, a coast guard officer and an aid worker said on Tuesday ... Eleven bodies, including that of a child, were recovered off Qarabulli in eastern Tripoli, said coast guard officer Fathi al-Zayani.
photo: AP / Yousef Murad
Illegal migrants sit after their boat was intercepted by Libyan authorities in the Mediterranean, some 60 kilometers east of Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022.
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Dozens of bodies wash ashore after boats sink off Libya coast

Al Jazeera 25 Apr 2023
At least 57 bodies have washed ashore after two boats sank in the Mediterranean Sea off different towns in western Libya, a coast guard officer and an aid worker have said ... Eleven bodies, including that of a child, were recovered off Qarabulli in eastern Tripoli, said coast guard officer Fathi al-Zayani.
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Libya: Crackdown on Nongovernmental Groups

Human Rights Watch 18 Apr 2023
In a March 21, 2023 , the Office of the Prime Minister of the Tripoli-based GNU said that domestic and foreign nongovernmental organizations could continue operating only if they “correct their legal status” in line with a draconian 2001 Muammar Gaddafi-era law ... The Tripoli-based ...
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How civil war undermines the hunt for Libyan assets?

Blitz 13 Apr 2023
A rival government was then set up in Tripoli ... He set up shop in Tripoli, meaning there were now two rival LIA offices. one in Tripoli under Breish and another in Malta under Bouhadi ... In late 2014, an LIA subsidiary known as the Libya Africa Investment Portfolio, or LAIP, had its offices in Tripoli overrun by a militia from Misrata.

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