The document also lists Mr. Baja’s political adversaries, including Mr. Haftar. “I provided fingerprints to the FBI twice, the first attempt was rejected due to the quality of fingerprint services in Libya,” Mr. Baja wrote. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada declined to comment on the status of Mr. Baja’s immigration application, citing privacy legislation. Last year, the department acknowledged it was aware of Mr. Baja’s arrest, but said it was not in a position to comment. “This was just a tactic of Khalifa Haftar,” Mr. Baja said of his father’s detention.

Mr. Hakan Fidan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye, will visit Libya on 7 February 2024. During the meetings, bilateral relations as well as current developments in Libya and the region will be discussed. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The PeninsulaSpeaker of the Shura Council H E Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanim met yesterday with Speaker of the House of Representatives of Libya H E Aguila Saleh, who is visiting the country. During the meeting, they discussed the existing parliamentarian relations between the two sides and ways to enhance and develop them. The meeting was attended by a number of Their Excellencies officials and members of the Shura Council, as well as the delegation accompanying the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the State of Libya.

In 1990 Matar’s father was kidnapped by Gaddafi’s thugs and imprisoned in Tripoli; for a while his family had letters from him, then the letters stopped. Hisham Matar’s characters find themselves at the centre of historic, headline-making events. Matar’s previous novels In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance fictionalise this subject of the imprisoned or vanished father. In London, on April 17, 1984, two Libyan students, Khaled and Mustafa, attend a demonstration against Gaddafi’s regime outside the Libyan Embassy, which ends with gunmen in an upper window opening fire onto the crowd. A policewoman is killed; Khaled and Mustafa are among those wounded.

Nearly half the Indians over the age of 15 who lived in Malta in 2021 declared having a tertiary level of education, Census data shows. This means that nearly 60% of Indians living in Malta three years ago had continued their studies beyond secondary level. Only 5% of Indians living in Malta had a primary level of education. Indians living in Malta were slightly more likely to have a tertiary education than Italians living here (45%) and slightly less than those hailing from the EU (50%). In fact, over 35% of Filipinos and Libyans living in Malta declared having a tertiary level of education.

Alkuafi was instructed to take the Queen Majeda to the port in Durres, where a line of police vehicles awaited. The ship’s detention raised more questions about the alleged fuel smuggling than it answered: Who was behind it? Not far from where the Queen Majeda was docked is a two-story building with an Italian flag at the entrance. And he has repeatedly criticized the central bank and the state oil company for their lack of transparency — allegations the bank and the oil company have publicly refuted. And the country has done so even though the economy contracted by 1.2% in 2022, according to the World Bank.

Listen to Big Take podcast on iHeart, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and the Bloomberg Terminal Bloomberg Terminal . In September 2022, a tanker called the Queen Majeda was stopped by authorities in Albanian waters, stuffed to the gills with $2 million worth of marine gas oil. The ship was coming from Libya’s port of Benghazi. And according to the Albanian authorities, the oil they were carrying was being smuggled out of the country illegally.

The Director General of Libya’s National Programme for Small and Medium Enterprises, Ahmed Al-Namawi, met at the Ministry of Local Government last Sunday (4 February) with representatives of the German Foundation for International Cooperation (GIZ) to discuss prospects for cooperation to support small projects and entrepreneurship. Business incubator projects and entrepreneurship centers in municipalitiesThe meeting focused on discussing the details of implementing business incubator projects and entrepreneurship centres in municipalities, and ways to strengthen the partnership between GIZ and the SME Department. The meeting also reviewed the programmes that were previously implemented, and exchanged experiences, especially in the field of training and developing national cadres. ITC, Agri-incubators, and aquacultureThe meeting touched on ways to employ information and communications technology in this field, as well as agricultural incubators, including the development and localization of aquaculture, and ways to exploit GIZ’s expertise in supporting these fields. This, in line with the Ministry’s vision and achieving its goals in diversifying agricultural sources of income, support and development of productive sectors, and sponsorship of entrepreneurial initiatives.

The EU’s Rebuild project is discussing with Libya ways to open new horizons of cooperation in the field of marine fishing, environmental sanitation, capacity building, and scientific research. The discussions took place last Sunday (4 February) between the Tripoli based Libyan government’s Minister of Local Government, Bader Aldeen Al-Tumi, with the European Union Ambassador, Nicola Orlando, the Italian Embassy’s Giacomo Grandesso, the representative of the Province of Trentino, and the General Coordinator of the Rebuild Project, Laurence Biasetto. The Rebuild project team presented an overview of the two projects proposed to be implemented in Libya, represented by the Fishing and Environmental Safety project funded by the European Union, stressing that the number of partner municipalities is 10, five of which are coastal municipalities.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said he would visit Libya on Wednesday as Türkiye seeks to expand its ties to North African country. Amid the instability that followed the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi, Türkiye shut down the consulate in 2014. He said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Putin would discuss the war in Ukraine and the Black Sea Grain Initiative during the visit. A Turkish official told Reuters last week he would visit Türkiye on Feb. 12. The Kremlin has said Erdoğan and Putin would discuss setting up a gas hub in Türkiye and the war in Ukraine during the visit.

Oil India is looking for more foreign assets and is in talks to restart drilling in Libya, a source familiar with the matter said. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak to media. Oil India exited Libya in 2011 due to political instability. Shares of the state-run explorer jumped as much as 12.4% to a record high of 516.40 rupees on Tuesday. The source said the company was in talks over two blocks in Libya, without giving a timeline for a possible deal.

“Türkiye does not want any renewed conflict in Libya,” Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told a joint press conference on Tuesday with his Maltese counterpart Ian Borg at the Prime Ministry Palace in Valletta, the capital of Malta, an island nation some hundreds of kilometres off the coast of Libya.

The PeninsulaDoha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani met, in his office on Tuesday, with Speaker of the House of Representatives of the sisterly State of Libya HE Aguila Saleh. The meeting discussed cooperation relations between the two brotherly countries and ways to support and develop them. During the meeting, the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs affirmed the State of Qatar's firm position towards supporting Libya's unity and stability and achieving the aspirations of its people for stability and development, reiterating the State of Qatar's full support for the Libyan political track, the relevant Security Council resolutions, and all peaceful solutions that preserve sovereignty of Libya.

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At the downtown measuring station, 6.7 inches of rain had fallen by Monday afternoon, nearly half the yearly average of 14.25 inches. Crews rescued people from swift-moving water in various parts of Southern California on Monday, including 16 people and five cats in Los Angeles County alone, authorities said. “The ground is extremely saturated, supersaturated,” said Ariel Cohen, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service bureau in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass urged residents to avoid driving, warning of fallen trees and electrical lines on flooded roadways. A record 4.1 inches of rain fell Sunday in downtown Los Angeles, making it the 10th wettest day on record, the National Weather Service said.