Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), Aguila Saleh, has issued a decision on Thursday, imposing a fee on the official exchange rate of foreign currencies of 27% for all purposes until December 31 of the current year, 2024. According to the decision, the exchange rate must be in addition to this percentage, with the possibility of reducing it according to the revenue of the Libyan state. The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya is charged to implement this decision, provided that the currency is available to banks operating in Libya, according to the decision.
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March 15, 2024 21:19 UTC
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March 15, 2024 18:20 UTC
The rescue personnel of the SOS Mediteranee's humanitarian ship Ocean Viking attend migrants rescued from a deflating rubber dinghy in the Central Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Survivors reported that some 50 people who departed Libya with them a week ago had perished during the journey.
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March 15, 2024 16:35 UTC
(AP) — Suspected tornado have raked parts of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, damaging dozens of homes and leaving people without electricity. ADVERTISINGColorado snow storm knocks out power for thousandsDENVER (AP) — A major storm is dumping heavy, wet snow in Colorado. Officials said Thursday that the names were provided to a regional trade bloc known as Caricom that is helping lead the transition. SOS Mediterranee says its rescue ship Ocean Viking spotted the dinghy Wednesday with 25 people on board. The FAA is also investigating an incident last week in which a United Airlines Boeing 777 lost a tire during takeoff in San Francisco.
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March 15, 2024 11:42 UTC
The Canadian women, who outscored the opposition 14-0 in winning their first four matches at the inaugural women's Gold Cup, climbed one spot to No. 65, up five), Puerto Rico (No. 88, up 21) made the biggest jump, after wins over American Samoa, Samoa and Fiji. El Salvador, Kosovo, Lebanon, Nepal, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Spain, Tanzania and Zambia have all achieved their highest-ever points totals. The next women’s rankings will be released June 14.
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March 15, 2024 11:39 UTC
The general Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (NLA) based in Cyrenaica, launches a new ultimatum and raises the tone of the political conflict in Libya divided between the rival governments of Tripoli and Benghazi. According to Haftar, "the margin for granting opportunities has been drastically reduced", declaring himself ready to take "courageous decisions to counter anyone who interferes with the destiny of the nation", without having to "ask anyone's permission". Haftar, 80, said that "the Libyan army", which "was exposed to the danger of annihilation", has now "regained life". The margin for granting opportunities has narrowed, patience is on the verge of running out. The last elections in Libya took place in 2014 and led to the outbreak of a civil conflict, which ended with the ceasefire of November 2020.
Source:Libya Today
March 15, 2024 11:16 UTC
Survivors rescued from a deflating rubber dinghy in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them more than a week ago perished during the journey, the humanitarian rescue group SOS Mediterranee said Thursday. The European charity's ship Ocean Viking spotted the dinghy with 25 people on board on Wednesday. The deflating rubber dinghy had left Libya more than a week before the rescue. Two on board the small, partially deflated dinghy were unconscious and were evacuated to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa. Humanitarian groups have warned that the far-right-led Italian government's policy of assigning ports further north keeps their rescue ships out of waters where they can be saving lives.
Source:Libya Today
March 15, 2024 09:13 UTC
As many as 60 people are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean in the latest deadly incident facing migrants heading to Europe from Libya. "The survivors departed from Zawiya, Libya, seven days before they were rescued," SOS Mediterranee posted on the social media platform X. "Their engine broke after three days, leaving their boat lost, adrift without water and food for days. The survivors departed from Zawiya, Libya, 7 days before they were rescued. Their engine broke after 3 days, leaving their boat lost adrift without water and food for days.
Source:Libya Today
March 15, 2024 04:17 UTC
MARSEILLE: At least 60 people died on a migrant boat that lost power as it tried to reach Europe from Libya, an aid group said on Thursday, citing accounts from those rescued. “Survivors report that at least 60 people died en route, including women and at least one child,” said Marseille-based SOS Mediterranee. The group’s Ocean Viking rescue ship is currently heading for port, carrying 224 people rescued from different boats. Ocean Viking also has aboard 113 people recovered on Wednesday night and a further 88 rescued on Thursday from “an overloaded inflatable craft”. Last year, 3,105 migrants died or were reported missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, according to IOM figures.
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March 15, 2024 02:36 UTC
The European charity’s ship Ocean Viking spotted the dinghy with 25 people on board Wednesday. The other 23 were in serious condition, exhausted, dehydrated and with burns from fuel on board the boat. Humanitarian organizations often rely on accounts of survivors when pulling together the numbers of dead and missing at sea, presumed to have died. The survivors said the boat departed Zawiya, Libya with about 85 people on board, including some women and at least one small child. Ocean Viking has been directed by Italian authorities to the port of Ancona, in the central Marche region, Creazzo said.
Source:Libya Today
March 15, 2024 00:05 UTC
Survivors rescued from a deflating rubber dinghy in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them a week ago perished during the journey, the humanitarian rescue group SOS Mediterranee said Thursday. SOS Mediterranee spokesperson Francesco Creazzo said that the survivors were all male, 12 of them minors with two of those not yet teenagers. A migrant is helped evacuate a partially deflated rubber dinghy by the rescue personnel of the SOS Mediterranee humanitarian ship Ocean Viking in the Central Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, March 12, 2024. Johanna de Tessieres/ SOS Mediterranee via APCreazzo said the survivors were traumatized and unable to give full accounts of what had transpired during the voyage. The survivors' boat departed from Zawiya, Libya, seven days before the rescue, SOS Mediterranee said.
Source:Libya Today
March 14, 2024 21:37 UTC
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors said Thursday they're open to delaying the start of Donald Trump's New York hush-money criminal trial to give the former president's lawyers time to review evidence that was only recently turned over. NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors said Thursday they're open to delaying the start of Donald Trump's New York hush-money criminal trial to give the former president's lawyers time to review evidence that was only recently turned over. The Manhattan district attorney's office said in a court filing that it's not opposed to adjourning the start of the trial for not more than 30 days. Jury selection in the trial is scheduled to begin March 25. Trump's lawyers are seeking an 90-day delay or the dismissal of charges against Trump, alleging violations of what's known as the discovery process, where the sides exchange evidence.
Source:Libya Today
March 14, 2024 19:39 UTC
For Mustafa Balhaj, a 64-year-old retired teacher from Al-Khums, a coastal city in Libya, the plastic waste increasingly burying his hometown’s beaches was distressing. “Our beaches were covered in piles of garbage and construction debris.”Across Libya plastic is either buried in landfills, where it can potentially contaminate soil and water; incinerated, releasing toxic pollutants into the atmosphere; or simply piled up. Libya creates 350,000 metric tons (386,000 tons) of plastic waste each year, according to General Services Company (GSC), a government entity that oversees waste management. Balhaj had no answers for some of these pressing issues, but he saw in the increasing plastic waste a place where he could make a difference. Enabling the VulnerableOnly 37 miles (59 kilometers) southeast of Al-Khums, in Zliten, revenues from recycling plastic are supporting vulnerable people in another way.
Source:Libya Today
March 14, 2024 19:23 UTC
A European humanitarian aid group said on Thursday that about 50 migrants died after their small boat deflated during an attempt to cross the central Mediterranean Sea. A ship belonging to the charity, SOS Mediterranee, spotted the deflating rubber dinghy on Wednesday, in international waters under the Libyan rescue jurisdiction. The survivors told the charity that they had been adrift for four days, since the engine on their dinghy broke. Some 50 other people were with them when they departed from the Libyan port of Zawiya, they told the rescuers, including two infants and four women. Valeria Taurino, the director general of SOS Mediterranee, said the situation on board was “disastrous.”
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March 14, 2024 18:56 UTC
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed his longtime economic adviser to be the next prime minister in the face of U.S. pressure to reform the Palestinian Authority as part of Washington's postwar vision for Gaza. But those plans face major obstacles, including strong opposition from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israel-Hamas war that is still grinding on with no end in sight. Mustafa was born in the West Bank town of Tulkarem in 1954 and earned a doctorate in business administration and economics from George Washington University. He has held senior positions at the World Bank and previously served as deputy prime minister and economy minister. Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war.
Source:Libya Today
March 14, 2024 18:37 UTC