A 10-year-old boy has died after a remnant of war exploded on a farm in Qasr Bin Ghashir south of Tripoli. The Security Directorate of the Four Districts said it received a call on Monday reporting the sound of an explosion in the area. The blast killed 10-year-old Abdul Moez Masoud Al-Tir Oqab from the Radd Al-Zawiya neighbourhood near Al-Ittihad Company. The authority said investigations into the cause of the blast are ongoing. A report by Human Rights Watch in April last year confirmed the death of at least 130 people, mostly civilians, due to landmines and unexploded ordnance left over from heavy fighting in 2020.

Award-winning filmmaker Cécile Allegra joins us on Perspective to tell us about her new feature, "Songs of the Living". It tells the story of a group of migrants, or survivors as she prefers to call them, as they try to settle in the Aveyron region of France. These survivors are people who have escaped torture in Libyan camps, and are now being helped by her own French charity Limbo, the brothers of the local monastery and the people of the town. Together, they use music to try to bring some semblance of calm to the lives of those who have experienced hell on Earth. Read more on FRANCE 24 EnglishRead also:FRANCE 24 animated documentary highlights plight of migrants in LibyaGreek court rejects charges against aid workers who helped migrants in Lesbos'A love story in hell': Two migrants find romance during Libya detention ordeal

Apple’s extended reality (XR) product lineup faces additional setbacks after reports revealed it indefinitely postponed augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. Apple stated the smart glasses face technical issues, forcing Apple to delay the launch of the device until further notice. With its AR smart glasses indefinitely on hold, Apple must now innovate its hardware further with two devices — its enterprise and consumer XR headsets. This will provide access to the entire AR smart glasses industry to manufacture and launch their own devices, significantly increasing competition for Apple. The US tech giant must rethink how it will refine its AR smart glasses.

Charge d’Affairs in Libya Leslie Ordeman Tuesday visited the tomb of Omar al-Mukhtar in Benghazi, describing the resistance movement leader against Italian colonization as “a symbol of Libyan unity and national pride.”“I was honored to visit the tomb of Omar Mukhtar, the Lion of the Desert, who defended the sovereignty of Libya against foreign forces,” said Ordeman.

Chat GPT is the latest trending tech topic, kicking off 2023 with an AI-powered chatbot which answers general-purpose questions and requests. As innovative firms explore enterprise use cases for Chat GPT, Virtualspeech integrates Chat GPT systems into virtual reality (VR) business solutions. Introducing Chat GPT for EnterpriseFor enterprises, Chat GPT is an avenue for teams to fulfil tasks using a machine learning service that can solve requests – firm must review each request with accompanying content quality control. Chat GPT Use Cases in VR TrainingVirtualspeech outlines three critical use cases for Chat GPT to benefit enterprise VR training sessions. Large Scale Chat GPT VR TrainingFinally, another example from Virtualspeech is how a firm can use the Chat GPT integration to simulate a large-scale Q&A session in a post-presentation or press conference setting.

North Korea is again the worst country for persecutionNorth Korea has again come out on top of Open Door's annual World Watch List where Christians suffer the most severe persecution. Afghanistan topped the list last year but the 2023 World Watch List released on Tuesday shows that North Korea has once again become the world's worst country for the persecution of Christians. Following North Korea in the top 10 were Somalia, Yemen, Eritrea, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Sudan. With the exception of last year, North Korea has remained top of the World Watch List since 2002. There can only be one god in North Korea, and that is the Kim family."

The Libyan writer and political analyst, Abd al-Rahim al-Burki, said the Turkish Intelligence Chief, Hakan Fidan, on his visit to Tripoli on Tuesday, made a political reconciliation deal between Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Head of the outgoing Government of National Unity (GNU), and Khaled al-Mishri, Head of the High Council of State (HCS). Al-Burki tweeted: “In the absence of the national will of the Libyan political leaders, the Chief of the Turkish Intelligence was able to make a political reconciliation deal between al-Mishri and Dbeibeh, two days after the conclusion of the reconciliation conference that was organized and supervised by the Presidential Council.”He added: “We are for brotherly reconciliation, whatever it may be, but we are not for political maneuvering to stay in power.”

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd. The President premised his argument on the free circulation of “all sorts of small and light weapons” orchestrated by foreign fighters. Buhari said, “Although we are winning the war, however, as a country and sub-region, we continue to be negatively impacted by events in Libya, the Central Africa Republic, The Sahel and the war in Ukraine. “Our region is awash with all sorts of small and light weapons that continue to be free in circulation, orchestrated by the impact of foreign fighters. Buhari also appreciated President El-Ghazouni and the Government and people of Mauritania for hosting the peace conference.

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Dr. Scerri told jurors that Grech had not been killed in the field where her body was found. The court-appointed forensic expert explained that the victim had also suffered deep stab wounds to her genitals, leg and knee. Dr, Scerri replied that it pained him to say it, but in his long experience police only give minimal information to court experts. One of the stab wounds had penetrated her heart, another had sliced through an artery. READ ALSO: Eyewitness told police she saw two men dragging Sion Grech to field and stabbing her

1, according to the 2023 World Watch List (WWL), the latest annual accounting from Open Doors of the top 50 countries where it is most dangerous and difficult to be a Christian. Yet the biggest threat to the church is not external but internal, concludes Frans Veerman, Open Doors managing director of research. Open Doors noted the “promotion of greater tolerance” in a number of Middle Eastern countries, including Bahrain and the UAE. Secular intolerance (0 countries) and clan oppression (0 countries): Open Doors tracks these sources of persecution, but neither is the main source in any of the 50 countries on the 2023 list. The State Department also lists Entities of Particular Concern, or nongovernmental actors producing persecution, which are all active in countries on Open Doors’ list.

Libyan trucks carrying various food products pass the Ras Jedir border post with Tunisia, early on January 17, 2023. (Photo by Libyan Government of National Unity / AFP)AFPTunis: Conflict-wracked Libya donated several dozen trucks of food supplies on Tuesday to neighbouring Tunisia, the Libyan embassy said, months into an economic crisis that has seen repeated shortages of basic goods. The operation is set to bring a total of 170 truckloads of supplies from Tripoli, he added. Tunisia is in the grip of a downturn that has spiralled since its 2011 revolution, itself sparked by economic woes. The border region between Tunisia and Libya is a hub for a thriving cross-border trade, both legal and illicit.

Tunis: Conflict-wracked Libya donated several dozen trucks of food supplies on Tuesday to neighbouring Tunisia, the Libyan embassy said, months into an economic crisis that has seen repeated shortages of basic goods. 'These provisions are a donation from the government of national unity (in Tripoli) to help Tunisia tackle the acute shortages' of these products, he told AFP. The operation is set to bring a total of 170 truckloads of supplies from Tripoli, he added. The border region between Tunisia and Libya is a hub for a thriving cross-border trade, both legal and illicit. Libya tumbled into a morass of violence with the 2011 revolt that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi, and today two rival governments are vying for power.

January 17, 2023Libya hosted two intelligence chiefs within a span of a week, with Turkey’s intelligence chief Hakan Fidan paying a visit to Tripoli Tuesday after CIA head William Burns visited the war-torn country last week. Turkish and Libyan media reported that Fidan met with Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah after he traveled to Libya from Sudan where he had met with Sudan's military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. The deal has turned into a source of tensions between Turkey, Egypt and Greece over conflicting claims in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Tripoli court left room for the GNU to appeal the ruling, according to the Reuters report. Turkey’s military and intelligence support to the Tripoli-based forces tipped the balance of power against eastern forces led by Khalifa Hifter, who has been backed by Russia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.