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  • 8,000 Libyans flee to Tunisia

    Date: 2014-07-30 18:57:17 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:90 - ID:851330

    TUNIS, July 30 (MENA) - Up to 8,000 Libyans have been fled to Tunisia to escape the ongoing fighting in Libya, Sky News reported Wednesday. "The economic situation in our country is fragile, and we can not bear hundreds of thousands of Libyan ....

  • Borders with Libya to be closed if conditions worsen- Tunisian FM

    Date: 2014-07-30 17:51:45 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:86 - ID:851217

    TUNIS, July 30 (MENA) – Tunisia's Foreign Minister Mongi Hamdi said Wednesday that his country might opt to close its borders with Libya if the security conditions there more worsen. "We will close the border if the national interest requires ....

  • Fire guts police HQ in Benghazi, 35 bodies found

    Date: 2014-07-30 17:05:28 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:78 - ID:851158

    TRIPOLI, July 30 (MENA) - A huge fire erupted at a police headquarters in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi due to fierce clashes between special forces and militias in the city, a police source said. Also in Benghazi, at least 35 bodies have been ....

  • No new corona virus cases reported in Saudi Arabia today - health ministry

    Date: 2014-07-30 17:02:48 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:75 - ID:851213

    RIYADH, July 30 (MENA) - The Saudi Health Ministry said Wednesday no new cases of corona virus were detected today. Two cases were treated and discharged, read a statement by the ministry. The Ministry added that about 396 cases were ....

  • Dangerous terrorist' arrested by army in Kasserine

    Date: 2014-07-30 16:27:02 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:73 - ID:851070

    TUNIS, July 30 (MENA) - A wanted terrorist was arrested, on Tuesday, by the national army during a control and oversight operation in Jebel Samama, in the governorate of Kasserine, spokesman for the Defense Ministry Amjed Hammami said in press ....

  • Firefighters about to douse fuel depot fire in Libya

    Date: 2014-07-30 15:52:03 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:70 - ID:851111

    TRIPOLI, July 30 (MENA) - Libya's firefighters are about to douse a huge blaze at a petrol depot near Tripoli Airport, announced the interim Libyan government on Wednesday. In its official website, the government urged governmental bodies and ....

  • Group of Britons leave Libya on board French boat

    Date: 2014-07-30 15:41:26 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:69 - ID:851047

    LONDON, July 30 (MENA) - A group of UK nationals has left Libya on a French boat following the escalation in violence between rival militias in and around the capital, Tripoli. "A small group of British nationals left Tripoli this morning on board ....

  • Tunisia does not rule out closing its border crossing with Libya: Minister

    Date: 2014-07-30 15:26:58 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:66 - ID:850816

    TRIPOLI, July 30 (MENA) - The Tunisian government does not rule out closing the Ras Jedir crossing at the border with Libya, where a reported 6,000 Libyans arrive every day, if the situation worsens in the violence-torn country, Foreign Minister ....

  • Libyan Company for oil ports denies reports on closing Brega oil port

    Date: 2014-07-30 15:09:26 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:64 - ID:850934

    TRIPOLI, July 30 (MENA) – Director of operating Management at the Libyan Company for oil ports' branch in Brega City Abdel Azim Bo Khmadah denied on Wednesday the Media reports on closing Brega oil port. Bo Khmadah told the Libyan news agency ....

  • Algeria urges int'l community to stop deteriorating situation in Libya

    Date: 2014-07-30 15:04:11 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:62 - ID:851045

    ALGIERS, July 30 (MENA) - Algeria called on the whole international community to unite to respond to the deterioration of the situation in Libya, and to help the country in "taking up all challenges," Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra told Algeria ....

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