Who Is Viktor Bout, the ‘Merchant of Death’ Arms Dealer Biden Traded to Russia For Brittney Griner?
President Joe Biden on Thursday traded Viktor Bout, the notorious international arms dealer known as the "Merchant of Death," to Russia for U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was arrested at a Moscow airport earlier this year with cannabis oil in her luggage. Bout allegedly delivered surface-to-air missiles to Kenya for an attack on an Israeli airliner in 2002. And four years later, Bout reportedly met with Islamic terrorist organization Hezbollah prior to the Lebanon war. A U.S. jury sentenced Bout to 25 years in prison in Manhattan in 2011. Russia did not agree to include Whelan in the deal, according to the New York Times, leaving Biden to agree to a "one-for-one swap."
Source:Libya Today
December 09, 2022 03:41 UTC
Dbeibeh’s government wants human trafficker off international sanctions list
The Justice Ministry of the Government of National Unity, led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, has requested that the Foreign Ministry removes infamous human trafficker Abdel Rahman Milad, known as Bija, from international sanctions list, leaked document shows. Milad is suspected of being part of a criminal network operating in Zawiyah in north-west Libya. In June 2018, the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions on him and five other alleged leaders of criminal networks engaged in trafficking migrants and others from Libya. He was arrested in October 202o, but was freed in April 2021 after the military attorney general of Tripoli dropped charges against him “for lack of evidence”. He remains on the U.N. sanctions listIn October of this year, the Tripoli-based government honored Milad as he received a “letter of recognition and appreciation” directly from Fathallah Al-Zinni, who currently serves as minister of youth in Dbeibeh’s cabinet.
Source:Libya Today
December 08, 2022 20:42 UTC
GNU Health Minister Al-Zanati resigns
Health Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU) Ali Al-Zanati resigned on Thursday. Al-Zanati announced his resignation via a recorded video, in which he cited the end of the government’s legal mandate, as per UN peace plan, as the reason for his decision. “It is difficult for me to continue as health minister in the Government of National Unity, whose mandate was expired according to the Geneva political agreement and the decision of the legislative authority,” Al-Zanati said in the video with the picture of Khalifa Haftar, the General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), appearing behind him. Al-Zanati’s resignation comes just two days after GNU’s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh reinstated him to his post in the wake of court ruling that cleared him from financial misconduct charges. The decision to reinstate Al-Zanati was announced by Dbeibeh’s own media office, which reported that the two met last Tuesday with the premier urging the former minister to work “seriously and sincerely in order to organize the health sector, which needs exceptional efforts”.
Source:Libya Today
December 08, 2022 20:41 UTC
XR Training Offers Major Boost to Learner Outcomes, CWRU Exec Says
Some of the world’s top institutions featured across the XR medical, defence, education, and entertainment sectors debuted and highlighted their latest immersive solutions. She educates medical schools and universities around the world about her institution’s immersive application, which runs on Microsoft’s HoloLens platform. HoloLens for XR Medical EducationFarrow stated that her medical school, one of the top 25 institutions in the United States, put plans to build a new facility in 2014. The university also found that medical students learned twice as fast, allowing them to have extra time to incorporate different modalities, such as living anatomy and radiology. Explaining, she stated,“I think the XR world is going to really engage not only in education and at medical schools, but across high schools as well.
Source:Libya Today
December 08, 2022 17:25 UTC
Trade exchange between Egypt, Arab countries hit $21.9B in 9 months
In a statement issued Thursday, the CAPMAS said Egypt exports to Arab countries rose by $620 million to reach $8.8 billion in the first nine months of 2022, compared to $8.2 billion in the same period in 2021, with an increase rate of 7.6 percent. The list of top Arab importers from Egypt also included Morocco, Jordan, Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait and Lebanon, recording imports worth $628.2 million, $554.5 million, $546.8 million, $379 million, 346.9 million and 335.3 million, respectively, the CAPMAS added. Egypt imports from Arab countries rose 27.9 percent, to reach $13.1 billion in the first nine months of 2022, compared to $10.3 billion in the same period in 2021, it said. The list of top Arab exporters to Egypt included Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Sudan, Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria and Libya with exports worth $6.4 billion, $2.4 billion, $2.2 billion, $625.7 million, $423.4 million, $364.3 million, $184.5 million, $161.4 million, $101.3 million and $80.5 million, respectively, it added. According to CAMPAS, Arab investments in Egypt spiked 163.8%, to hit $8.2 billion in FY 2021/2022 compared to $3.1 billion in FY 2020/2021.
Source:Libya Today
December 08, 2022 17:22 UTC
Solution in Libya is based on 4 pillars, including changing the government and sovereign positions, LPDF member suggests
Member of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, Ahmed Al-Sharkasi, said that the solution to the Libyan crisis is based on four pillars, including changing the government and sovereign positions. “The solution in Libya is based on four main pillars: first: a constitutional base for presidential and parliamentary elections. And second, “changing the executive authority with a respectable one to lead the country to elections,” al-Sharkasi said in a tweet. He concluded by explaining that the third pillar of the solution is “changing sovereign positions,” and fourth: drawing up “a national pact that includes consent, participation, and acceptance of the political process, elections, and their results.”
Source:Libya Today
December 08, 2022 16:34 UTC
Presidential Council announces an initiative to solve the crisis and a meeting with HoR and SC
The Presidential Council announced that it will participate in the constitutional track negotiations, and launch an initiative to overcome the political crisis between the House of Representatives and the State Council. “The Presidency Council’s initiative aims to overcome the political impasse and achieve national consensus, in line with the provisions of the road map issued by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum governing the stage and based on the moral responsibility of the Presidency Council,” said a statement issued by the Presidency Council. The statement added, “The Presidential Council announces an initiative to solve the crisis that will be launched through a consultative meeting between the three councils, in coordination with the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General, for preparing for a constitutional dialogue as a priority to end the transitional stages, in which the initiatives, ideas and visions put forward by the national parties and forces to the Presidency Council will be included.”
Source:Libya Today
December 08, 2022 12:33 UTC
TUNISIA : Libya's medical debts overshadow oil talks
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Source:Libya Today
December 08, 2022 06:05 UTC
Libya Says Suit Over $22M Award Must Be Paused
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Source:Libya Today
December 08, 2022 01:57 UTC
Libyan Jews whose graves were bulldozed under Gaddafi are remembered in Rome
If pro-Israel Republicans think former President Donald Trump will apologize or make amends in any way for choosing to have a public dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort home with two notorious antisemites, they haven’t been paying attention to how he has conducted his public career.
Source:Libya Today
December 07, 2022 23:10 UTC
Establishment of Constitutional Court reinforces justice in Libya, Saleh confirms
“The issuance of the Constitutional Court Law by the House of Representatives is a matter that achieves and reinforces justice in Libya, and has no effect on the constitutional path in talks with the State Council, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, announced. “We affirm that the House of Representatives’ issuance of the law establishing the Constitutional Court is an affirmation of the protection of freedoms and rights and the addition of a specialized judiciary in constitutional matters,” Saleh said in a statement today. “The establishment of a constitutional court by the House of Representatives and the legislative authority is confirmation of what the members of the Constitutional Track Committee formed from the House of Representatives and the State Council agreed upon, and no one objected to it, which confirms everyone’s desire to establish a constitutional judiciary that protects rights and freedoms,” he added.
Source:Libya Today
December 07, 2022 20:12 UTC
How do you solve the Libyan crisis?
The UN secretary-general’s special representative for Libya and Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi held discussions Tuesday on “a way out of the crisis” in Libya. Mr Othman Jerandi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia. We discussed ways to encourage Libyan political and security actors to come together in Libya and agree on a way out of the crisis by holding elections as soon as possible. Last week, the head of the Tripoli-based unity government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, welcomed a call by the UN envoy to Libya for holding elections in the country. #BREAKING The UN secretary-general’s special representative for Libya and Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi held discussions Tuesday on “a way out of the crisis” in Libya.
Source:Libya Today
December 07, 2022 18:58 UTC
Oil politics amidst Russia Ukraine War
The world’s oil politics is in such a state that one can only sit back and watch the fascinating dynamics of international relations. Before probing into the oil politics of war among the US, Russia, and the OPEC countries, one really needs to have a glimpse at the total contribution of the influencers. By region, the estimated oil production of the Middle East countries is 28.1 million bpd, North America has 23.9 million bpd, Asia Pacific 7.3 million bpd, Africa 7.2 million bpd, South America 5.9 million bpd, and Europe 3.4 million bpd. Considering the oil market exclusively, the sky-high oil prices are the best evidence of the aggravation of the war that almost every country is currently facing. The current dynamics of oil politics point to a favorable situation for Moscow in the coming months.
Source:Libya Today
December 07, 2022 18:28 UTC
Al-Mishri warns of the creation of a constitutional court in Benghazi
The head of the State Council, Khaled Al-Mashri, has warned the presidents and advisors of the Supreme Court, the Supreme Judicial Council, its members and members of judicial bodies, of “the seriousness of the law establishing the Supreme Constitutional Court in Benghazi.”In a statement today, Al-Mishri called for the non-implementation of the law issued by the Libyan Parliament, and considered it “invalid and an innocent attempt to involve the Libyan judiciary in political disputes and its impact on the unity of the country.”
Source:Libya Today
December 07, 2022 17:39 UTC