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Libya: Parliament Asks UN for 'Urgent Intervention'
DW, 13 August 2014
Libya's new parliament has adopted a resolution asking the UN for help to deal with militia violence across the country. The assembly has said it wants to integrate members of the… Read more »
Libya Parliament Asks for 'Urgent' UN Help
The new parliament has adopted a resolution asking the UN for help to deal with militia violence across the country - and said it wants to integrate members of the militias into the regular army.
More than 50 people have been killed in fighting in Libya since Saturday night. Weeks of violence in Benghazi and the capital Tripoli have forced many foreign diplomats to leave the country. Al Jazeera's Erica Wood reports.
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The interim government has announced that 22 people were killed in a day of fighting between rival militia groups for control of the international airport in Tripoli. Read more »
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