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When historians look back at Libya in a few decades’ time, they may well conclude that the shape of the count
The first round of Libya's local elections took place on Saturday, with a rolling series of votes in different areas set to be held in the coming weeks.
Some 43 people were killed and at least 450 others wounded on Friday in the capital's single bloodiest day since the end of the 2011 conflict, with clashes also breaking out on 16 November.
Two people were killed and dozens more injured in some of the most violent inter-militia clashes in the capital since the 2011 revolution.
Following a recent statement by the Libyan Scholars' Association (rabitat ulama libya) condemning calls for federalism in Libya, the Dar al-Ifta has issued its own opinion on the matter.
Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was seized from the Corinthia Hotel on the morning of 10 October.
Candidates wishing to run for election to the 60-member body tasked with drafting Libya's new constitution ha
Libya's oil crisis has taken a new twist, with claims that Naji Mukhtar, the chairman of the national assembly's energy committee, paid millions of Libyan dinars to a group that controls several key oil ports in the east of the country.
The US, UK, France and Italy have issued a joint statement supporting the government's efforts to resolve the energy crisis.


