Nine killed, 75 injured after diesel truck catches fire in southern Libya
Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, in operation carried out by US Navy Seals after a nearly decade-long hunt. US intelligence officials have been aware for years of a network helping Al-Zawahri dodge US intelligence officials hunting for him, but didn’t have a bead on his possible location until recent months. Al-Zawahri was hardly a household name like bin Laden, but he played an enormous role in the terror group’s operations. Photos from the time often showed the glasses-wearing, mild-looking Egyptian doctor sitting by the side of bin Laden. Some militants whose association with bin Laden predated Al-Zawahri’s always saw him as an arrogant intruder.
Source:Libya Today
August 01, 2022 23:49 UTC
Libya’s Oil Production Recovers to Pre-blockade Level – THISDAYLIVE
Output has climbed to 1.2 million barrels per day, Oil Minister Mohamed Oun said in a telephone interview with Bloomberg. The North African nation’s oil output has been hit by a power struggle between rival governments headed by Abdul Hamid Dbeibah in the west and Fathi Bashagha in the east. Each claim to be the legitimate prime minister, who each claim to be the legitimate prime minister. Libya’s oil output has see-sawed over the past years, largely as a result of the political and security unrest in the country that ensued after the ouster of Moammar Al Qaddafi in 2011. Power struggles between rival governments have compounded years of neglect in developing or revamping the oil infrastructure.
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August 01, 2022 23:36 UTC
As Political Deadlock Simmers, Libya Hits 1.2M Bpd Oil Production
Oil production in Libya has hit 1.2 million barrels per day, the level the country was producing prior to its declaration of force majeure in April, according to the new leadership of the National Oil Company (NOC). Production was said to have reached 1.13 million bpd by July 27. It remains unclear whether the 1.2 million barrels per day Libya is allegedly producing now is referring to only crude oil or crude oil plus condensate. Saleh says the legitimate government of Libya is led by Bashagha, who has so far failed to install himself in Tripoli. The situation has led to challenges in obtaining information, including with respect to oil production figures, with rival governments issuing contradictory statements.
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August 01, 2022 23:02 UTC
EU drone helping Libya send migrants to 'abuse': HRW
© Provided by WIONHuman Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday (August 1) that a European Union (EU) drone is helping Libyan forces to intercept boats of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea who are then subjected to "arbitrary detention and abuse". HRW said that the drone is operated from Malta, an EU member. "Frontex claims the surveillance is to aid rescue, but the information facilitates interceptions and returns to Libya ... (despite) overwhelming evidence of torture and exploitation of migrants and refugees in Libya," HRW said in a statement. HRW said Frontex's drone appeared to have helped Libyan forces intercept a boat in international waters, without informing nearby rescuers. It said that last year, some 32,450 people were intercepted by Libyan forces.
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August 01, 2022 21:28 UTC
Fuel Tanker Catches Fire in Libya; 5 Dead, 50 Injured
Ambulances in Tripoli, Libya, in this picture taken on Dec. 25, 2018. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP via Getty Images)Fuel Tanker Catches Fire in Libya; 5 Dead, 50 InjuredCAIRO—A fuel tanker truck caught fire and exploded Monday in central Libya, killing at least five people and injuring 50 others, authorities said. The incident took place in the central town of Bent Bayya, according to the Health Ministry in the capital of Tripoli. The state-run Libyan News agency said the tanker truck overturned before catching fire and exploding. The state-run medical center in the nearby city of Sabha received at least 50 injured people, Halima al-Mahri, a spokeswoman for the center.
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August 01, 2022 19:14 UTC
Fuel tanker truck catches fire in Libya; 9 dead, 76 injured :: WRAL.com
— A fuel tanker truck caught fire and exploded Monday in central Libya, killing at least nine people and injuring 76 others, health authorities said. The incident took place in the central town of Bent Bayya when the tanker truck overturned before catching fire and exploding, the state-run Libya News agency reported. The state-run Emergency Services in the area gave the casualty tolls. The injured were taken to the medical center in the nearby city of Sabha, said Halima al-Mahri, a spokeswoman for the center. Al-Mahri said at least 16 critically injured were evacuated to hospitals in the capital of Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi.
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August 01, 2022 18:57 UTC
Oil Tumbles On China PMI Weakness, Libya Output Hike; To Remain Muted On Low Liquidity
Libya’s crude output has rebounded to its early April levels, the OPEC member’s oil minister said, in an increase that could help cool a jittery global oil market. Unfortunately for bulls, as Bloomberg's Nour Al Ali correctly notes, open interest in Brent crude indicates that low liquidity is driving the market at the moment. When both prices and open interest fall, that could mean that long positions are being liquidated. This chart that Alex Longley showed me earlier today shows aggregate open interest adjusted for prices near historic highs." The US president said he expected “further steps” from the Saudis to cool oil prices and safeguard the global economy at the close of his trip to Jeddah two weeks ago.
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August 01, 2022 18:53 UTC
Mon. 8 a.m.: Fuel tanker catches fire in Libya; 5 dead, 50 injured
CAIRO (AP) — A fuel tanker truck caught fire and exploded today in central Libya, killing at least five people and injuring 50 others, authorities said. The incident took place in the central town of Bent Bayya, according to the Health Ministry in the capital of Tripoli. The state-run Libyan News agency said the tanker truck overturned before catching fire and exploding. The state-run medical center in the nearby city of Sabha received at least 50 injured people, Halima al-Mahri, a spokeswoman for the center. She urged authorities to help evacuate the injured to the capital of Tripoli for treatment.
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August 01, 2022 18:20 UTC
Libya: UN Experts Demand Release Of Woman Detainee
Libya: UN Experts Demand Release Of Woman DetaineeGENEVA (1 August 2022) – UN experts* today called for the immediate release of Iftikhar Boudra, a Libyan woman arrested in Benghazi four years ago, and demanded that authorities provide her with urgent medical treatment after she suffered various forms of violence during her detention. “We are gravely concerned about the sexual, physical and psychological violence to which Ms. Iftikhar Boudra has allegedly been subjected since her arrest,” the UN experts said. The reported cases of abuse and exploitation include inhuman conditions of detention, widespread torture, including sexual violence, and a critical lack of healthcare for detainees. Despite some progress, human rights abuses are rampant in Libya. UNSMIL has documented killings, enforced disappearances, sexual violence, including rape, arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, attacks against activists and human rights defenders, and hate crimes.
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August 01, 2022 17:44 UTC
Westbase.io Expands Vuzix Smart Glasses to UK, EU Markets
Last Tuesday, Vuzix entered a distribution deal with Westbase.io to scale its smart glasses product availability for the UK and northern EU customers. Westbase is a proven industry distributor of extended reality (XR) products, including 4G, 5G, and internet of things (IoT) solutions. Customers in Scandinavia, Benelux, the UK, and Ireland will receive access to Vuzix products as part of Westbase’s XR investment goals. In May, the firm entered a significant deal with Automatic SAS, enabling it to exclusively build smart glasses with the world’s first fully integrated colour microLED display. In the same month, Vuzix introduced the integration of 28 new languages on its M-series of smart glasses.
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August 01, 2022 17:41 UTC
At least 7 dead, over 50 injured after fuel truck explodes in southern Libya
At least 7 people died and more than 50 injured after a fuel truck exploded today in Bent Bayya, a town in southern Libya located between Sabha and Ubari, according to several reports from health officials. The incident took place during early morning hours when, according to eyewitnesses, a crowd of people gathered around a vehicle carrying a fuel container and began unloading fuel from it, before fire broke out. According to Sabha Medical Center, dozens of injured people were rushed into the facility, some of whom were in critical condition. The Libyan National Army (LNA) sent a military plane to transport the critically injured to Benghazi to receive treatment. In many cities citizens have to wait in long queues, sometimes for hours, to refuel their vehicles.
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August 01, 2022 16:27 UTC
Seedy, not sweet: Ancient melon genome from Libya yields surprising insights into watermelon relative
Credit: Molecular Biology and EvolutionThe oldest known seeds from a watermelon relative, dating back 6,000 years to the Neolithic period, were found during an archaeological dig in Libya. "These seeds were a riddle because they were thought to be the oldest true watermelon seeds," Chomicki said. They discovered that the oldest seeds came from a plant known as an egusi melon, a watermelon relative that is currently restricted to western Africa. "Both plant 'fossils' were C-14 dated and, as far as we know, are among the oldest plant genomes ever obtained," Renner said. "This study documents the use of the seeds (rather than the fruit) of a watermelon relative more than 6,000 years ago, prior to the domestication of the watermelon."
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August 01, 2022 16:17 UTC
At least 6 dead in Libya fuel truck blast
At least six people were killed and dozens injured on Monday when a fuel truck exploded in southwestern Libya, medics said. An official at the main hospital in Sebha, southern Libya’s main city, told AFP six people had died. The hospital’s management said on Facebook that “more than 50 wounded were admitted to Sebha hospital”, without indicating the number of deaths. “We have ordered a crisis cell to urgently transfer the wounded to major hospitals,” he said. Libya has Africa’s largest proven oil reserves, but chronic corruption and theft for smuggling to neighbouring countries means that the pumps often run dry.
Source:Libya Today
August 01, 2022 16:10 UTC