Regarding elections Koury met with the Speaker of the House of Representatives Aqila Saleh to discuss a vision for Libya going forward that includes resolving the political crisis. To that they agreed its necessary to create favorable conditions for holding free and fair elections that all Libyans can support. Municipal elections are coming up and the Chairman of the High National Elections Commission (HNEC), Emad Al-Sayeh met with Koury and her delegation. Under discussion were procedures related to preparing for the municipal elections to be announced at the beginning of July. Under review were challenges facing the support project managed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Libya.

ROME: At least 12 dead including Pakistani immigrants when two boats sink near the Italian water territory. According to several sources the boats were carrying several dozen immigrants heading towards Europe via Italian coast. German aid group RESQSHIP, which operates the Nadir rescue boat, said it picked up 51 people from a sinking wooden boat, including two who were unconscious, and found 10 bodies trapped in the lower deck of the vessel. Survivors were handed over to the Italian coastguard and taken ashore on Monday morning, while the Nadir was making its way to the Italian island of Lampedusa, towing the wooden boat with the deceased, the charity said. They left from Turkey eight days ago and had taken in water for three or four days.

The people of Ben Guerdane survived off the Ras Jadir border crossing. The nearby Tunisian border crossing with Libya remains closed, as it has been since late March violence on the Libyan side of the border. Controlling Ras Jedir would be significant for any of the factions or armed groups competing for power in Libya. “On a bad day, anywhere up to 300 trucks, 5,000 cars and 10,000 people can cross the border at Ras Jedir. “The recent attempt by the Dbeiba government and its Ministry of Interior to seize the border crossing was at best weak and clumsy,” he said.

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Two military ships of the Russian Federation, escorted by two submarines, made an official stop at the Tobruk naval base in Cyrenaica, the eastern region of Libya, in recent hours. Rumors have been circulating for some time about Russia's intention to open a naval base in the Cyrenaica city. “Aganin also said that the West wrongly accuses Moscow of military expansion in eastern Libya only to justify its own military presence in Libya and other countries. If the Russian military continues to regularly conduct naval activities via Tobruk, over time it will eventually be reduced to a Russian naval base. According to Profazio, the courtesy visit of the Russian military ships "confirms the trend already visible since April, when there had already been an arrival by Russian military ships in Tobruk".

At least 11 people have died and more than 60 are missing as a result of two shipwrecks off the coast of southern Italy, rescuers say. The boats were carrying migrants who had set off from Libya and Turkey, UN agencies said. Survivors of the shipwreck near Lampedusa were handed over to the Italian coastguard and taken ashore on Monday morning, while the deceased were being towed to the island, according to RESQSHIP. The other shipwreck was located about 125 miles off the coast of Calabria in southern Italy, the agencies said. More than 23,500 migrants have died or gone missing in its waters since 2014, according to UN data.

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In the Libyan village of Kabaw in the Nafusa Mountains, M'hamed Maakaf waters an ailing fig tree as climate change pushes villagers to forsake lands and livestock. Kabaw, like many villages in the Nafusa Mountains, is primarily inhabited by Amazigh people, a non-Arab minority. A tanker delivers water drawn from a well, to an inhabitant of the Libyan village of Kabao in the Nafusa mountains on May 26, 2024. Sheep graze in an arid field in the Libyan village of Kabao in the Nafusa mountains on May 26, 2024. "Water scarcity is one of the greatest emerging threats facing Libya," the UN Development Program said in a study.

Editorial: Boost for India’s imageG7’s commitment to promote India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor is a major diplomatic victoryBy Telangana Today Published Date - 17 June 2024, 11:49 PMPrime Minister Narendra Modi in a group picture with G7 leaders and other participants during the outreach session of 50th G7 Summit, in Apulia on Friday. The biggest takeaway from the just-concluded G7 summit in Italy has been the endorsement of India’s growing stature and influence in global affairs. Though the IMEC’s progress has been hindered by the ongoing turbulence in West Asia, the endorsement at the G7 summit would undoubtedly serve as a big booster. The key among them is that it breaks Pakistan’s veto over India’s overland connectivity to the West. But Islamabad was adamant in its refusal to let India gain access to land-locked Afghanistan and Central Asia.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Muslims in Asia on Monday celebrated Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, with food and prayers for people in Gaza suffering from the Israel-Hamas war . JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Muslims in Asia on Monday celebrated Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, with food and prayers for people in Gaza suffering from the Israel-Hamas war. Although Indonesia has more Muslims than any other country in the world, its traditions to mark Eid al-Adha have been influenced by other religions. Eid al-Adha commemorates the Quranic tale of Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice Ismail as an act of obedience to God. The world should be a bridge to the eternal land.”Muslims in India, where they comprise 14% of the population, celebrated Eid al-Adha on Monday across the country.

The transfer of U.S. Marine Corps troops stationed in Japan's Okinawa to Guam will start in December, a Marines official said Sunday, the latest development in a long-agreed Japan-U.S. forces realignment plan aimed at reducing the southern island prefecture's base-hosting burden. The cost of the Guam transfer is estimated at $8.7 billion, of which up to $2.8 billion will be shouldered by the Japanese government. But Japan and the United States agreed in 2012 to "delink" the Futenma relocation plan with the Guam transfer plan amid a lack of tangible progress on the Futenma project, with locals calling for moving the base out of Okinawa. The following year the two countries said that the transfer to Guam will begin in the first half of the 2020s. In January 2023, defense and foreign chiefs of Japan and the United States agreed in Washington on "accelerating" work on U.S. force realignment efforts, affirming a plan to start the relocation of Marines from Okinawa to Guam in 2024.

The military strongman in the east of divided Libya, Khalifa Haftar, has named one of his sons as army chief, tightening his family’s grip on the oil-rich region. Lacher said that in recent years Haftar’s sons had enjoyed “a rapid rise” through the military ranks, “achieving in no time what would take other officers decades”. Lacher said that Saddam Haftar now holds real military power and a key role in murky business dealings in a graft-ridden country notorious for trafficking of irregular migrants. The recent reshuffles are “a clear sign of preparation for the day when Haftar disappears and when his entire power structure is then in danger,” Lacher added. The latest example was the death in April of activist Siraj Dughman while in detention at a military base controlled by Haftar.

Head of Libya’s Government of National Unity Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah warned that the country is facing the threat of division and coming up against a “great danger.”During the opening of a mosque in al-Asbiah city on Friday, he said: “Some parties want to divide the country for the sake of a few crumbs, funds and fortunes.”“We declare that the country will remain one and united even if it means dying for it,” he added. Addressing Libya’s enemies, whom he didn’t identify, he stated: “They want to take us back, but I say to them that we will never return to the dark days when we used to fight each other.”“Those who let us live in darkness in the past ten years want to continue to do so,” he remarked. Turning to the economy, Dbeibah said the situation was “good” and that Libya was producing a surplus of oil. Furthermore, he held the central bank responsible for the liquidity crisis, calling on it to “radically” change its policies at banks, which are in turn exploiting the situation in the country. Dbeibah said he has no authority over them.

While 66 million people in Türkiye have been exposed to extreme heat over the past three days, a total of 290 million people in North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East have experienced abnormal temperatures. Maximum temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and above in many cities in Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Turkmenistan, Algeria, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Greece. In Bursa, temperatures reached 34.1 degrees Celsius on June 12, which was 8 degrees above the seasonal norm. Exposure to extreme heat is known to cause heat-related illnesses such as exhaustion and heat stroke. Additionally, extreme heat increases the risk of wildfires.