Nigeria senior men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, are looking to bounce back in their FIBA Afrobasket qualifying campaign after falling to a defeat to Libya on Friday night. The men’s team are set to face Uganada in their second Group B game at the AfroBasket 2025 qualifiers in Tunisia today (Saturday). D’Tigers had arrived on the day of their opening game (Friday) as they went straight to the venue from the airport. D’Tigers will now take on Uganda, who had been beaten 78-73 by Cape Verde in the other opening game of the group. After one round of games played, Libya are top, Cape Verde in second place while Uganda and Nigeria are third and fourth respectively.

Nigeria senior men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, lost to Libya in their opening Group B game at the AfroBasket 2025 qualifiers in Tunisia on Friday night. D’Tigers will hope to bounce back from the defeat to Libya when they face Uganda in their second group game today (Saturday). Meanwhile, the other game in the group saw Cape Verde beat Uganda 78-73. After one round of games played, Libya are top, Cape Verde in second place while Uganda and Nigeria are third and fourth respectively. The AfroBasket 2025 qualification will be played from February to November 2024, to determine the 16 nations who will qualify for the FIBA AfroBasket 2025.

Nigeria face overtime heartbreak against Libya in FIBA AfroBasket 2025 qualifiersSHARENigeria's D'Tigers have been off to a rough start in the FIBA AfroBasket 2025 qualifiers as the team suffered their first defeat in the hands of Libya in an overtime thriller. D'Tigers of Nigeria had found a way back into the game in the 4th Quarter of the tie but late points from the opposition saw Libya take the first game of the qualifiers into overtime and win by a 7-point margin with a score line of 82-89. Libya defeated Nigeria in the opening game of the FIBA AfroBasket 2025 qualifiers on the country's return to the game for the first time since 2009. Players like Eke, Bright, Daramola, and Nuga were influential and instrumental in picking up points and coming from behind to take the lead in the 4th quarter and send the game into overtime. @MichaelNuga with a great performance 🇳🇬 pic.twitter.com/33iUFXVX5F — D’Tigers | Nigeria Basketball (@NigeriaBasket) February 23, 2024Read the Latest Sport Trends and Get Fresh updates as they drop via Twitter and Facebook

This photo provided by RR Auction shows a watch melted during the Aug.6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. The watch is frozen in time at the moment of detonation of the atomic bomb over the city during the closing days of World War ll, sold at auction Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 for more than $31,000. (Nikki Brickett/RR Auction via AP)By STEVE LeBLANCA watch melted during the Aug 6, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, has sold for more than $31,000 at auction. The artifact was recovered from the ruins of Hiroshima and offers a glimpse into the immense destruction of the first atomic bomb detonated over a city. The small brass-tone watch, a rare survivor from the blast zone, was auctioned alongside other historically significant items, according to the auction house.

The real-life story of Hamrouni and her children is the focus of “Four Daughters,” an Academy Award nominee for best documentary feature film. Today, families like Hamrouni’s are living reminders of that complex legacy, the unresolved issues and difficult questions persisting years later. “It’s … an open wound in my country,” said actor Hend Sabri, who appears in the film as Hamrouni in some scenes. Besides Sabri, actors play Ghofrane and Rahma, the daughters who left, as Ben Hania reconstructs the family’s past in search for clues for their radicalization. In the film and the family’s telling, the daughters grew up with little in a tumultuous home.

Angolan club Petro Atletico booked their place in the CAF Champions League quarter-finals despite being held to a 0-0 draw away to Libyan side Al Hilal in their penultimate Group C clash on Friday evening. The result in Benghazi means the Angolan champions progress to the last eight of the competition , having established an unassailable lead at the top of their group. Petro went into the game knowing just a point would be enough to seal qualification, and they produced a disciplined defensive performance to earn the point they required. Al Hilal enjoyed the lion’s share of possession and chances, but found Petro goalkeeper Hugo Marques in inspired form as he made several important saves to keep a clean sheet. In the end, Petro held on relatively comfortably to extend their unbeaten record in the group to four matches.

The report of the study was prepared by analysing 50 types of information on each of the 557 Bangladeshis who returned from Libya. Besides, many people went from Dhaka to Istanbul-Dubai to Libya, from Dhaka to Qatar to Libya, from Dhaka to Dubai-Syria to Libya and few people went directly to Libya from Dhaka. However, even after all these, this trend of crossing the Mediterranean Sea and going to Libya in Europe's dream is not stopping, it said. Some 144 Bangladeshis returned from Libya on Thursday. There is often the case of boat capsize on way from Libya to Italy across the Mediterranean Sea.

Coach Abdulrahman Mohammed’s side trailed the Libyans 16-25 in the first quarter but bounced back to win the second quarter 19-15. In the third quarter, however, D’Tigers failed to build on their four-point lead as they slumped to a third-quarter loss of 20-15. In the final quarter, Mohammed’s side bounced back to win 25-15 which forced the game into overtime where they lost 12-7. D’Tigers, who crashed out of the Paris Olympics and the World Cup, will face Uganda in their next game on Saturday (today). Egypt and Tunisia were chosen as the hosts of the inaugural phase of the 2025 FIBA AfroBasket qualifiers scheduled for February 23 to 25.

A fresh batch of 144 irregular Bangladeshi citizens returned home from Libya early Friday by a chartered flight of Buraq Air. With this, the total number of returnees rose to 1,390, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release. On arrival at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, the repatriated Bangladeshi citizens were welcomed by the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). At that time, Mostofa Jamil Khan, director (Welfare) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, inquired about the repatriated Bangladeshis. The process of repatriating Bangladeshis trapped in Libya is ongoing with the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bangladesh Embassy, Tripoli and with the financial support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

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The Turkey e-Visa (also called the Turkey e-Visa) is a government-issued document that allows you to enter Turkey. An approved Turkey online visa from Cyprus is a single-entry electronic visa that allows the holder to stay in the country for 30 days. Turkey Visa from LibyaVisitors planning to travel to Libya should be aware that a visit visa is required in advance, as Libya is not a visa-free country. The Turkish e-Visa, also known as the online Turkey visa, is an official document that grants foreigners entry into Turkey. The Turkey visa for Libya consists of a simple online application form that can be completed in a matter of minutes.

Thirteen years have passed since Libya’s pivotal Arab Spring uprising in February 2011, yet the nation still finds itself ensnared in a web of political discord, rampant corruption and ascendant militias that have effectively transformed into quasi-state actors. Amid this fragmented landscape, European governments are seeking to deepen their oil and gas partnerships with Libya, largely to diversify away from Russian energy supplies. Yet by neglecting these internal factors, they may jeopardize their own objectives as well as Libya’s own path to political stability and economic recovery. Though violence has been minimal since a U.N.-brokered cease-fire in October 2020, their standoff has delayed elections to unify the government that were originally slated for December 2021. In the meantime, the country’s state of limbo has hamstrung its prospects for progress and growth.

According to the minister, China is financing a 30 billion dollar (28 billion euro) project in Libya to build subways through the BFI consortium. Libyan sources of “Agenzia Nova” in Tripoli they reported that at present no Chinese investments have started in the North African infrastructure sector. However, it would be wrong to underestimate the role that China has played and is still playing in Libya. But it is above all in the infrastructure sector, the trademark of Beijing's "turnkey" projects, that China has shored up its presence in Libya. The chaos of the civil war blocked everything, but a possible stabilization (or partition) of the country could restart the projects.

Some of the repatriated Bangladeshi nationals from Libya. Photo: Ministry of Foreign AffairsA fresh batch of 144 irregular Bangladeshi nationals, who were held at a detention centre in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, were repatriated to Bangladesh today (23 February) morning. A chartered flight of Buraq Air carrying the Bangladeshi nationals landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka this morning, said a press release of the foreign ministry. With the utmost efforts of the Bangladesh High Commission in Tripoli in association with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Bangladeshi nationals were repatriated to their homeland, the release said. Since July 2023, 1,390 Bangladeshi nationals have been repatriated from Libya.

Armed groups that have been controlling Tripoli for more than a decade have agreed to leave Libya’s capital. The deal comes after a series of deadly clashes in the city in recent months. Libya is currently divided between the internationally recognised government in the west, led by interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah in Tripoli, and an administration in the east run by military strongman Khalifa Haftar. He said once they had left the capital other cities would follow, noting there “will be no more checkpoints and no more armed groups” on roads. AdvertisementThe deal will see at least five armed groups quit Tripoli by the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on 9 April, including one based in an area where 10 people were killed over the weekend.