News Roundup - Sat, Sept 10, 2016

Last Updated: 5:25pm

The French lawyer of the Kuwaiti M. A. Kharafi & Sons Company said they dropped the lawsuit filed to confiscate the presidential plane used by Muamar Gaddafi before the February 17 revolution.

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The national authority of Chemical Weapons Agreement announced that the issue of the Libyan chemical stockpile has ended for good after it has all been moved to Germany for destruction.

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Al-Sweihli secured three additional points after it had won 2-1 over Al-Itihad on Friday at Misrata stadium in a delayed match from the sixth round of the second group at the Libyan Soccer League.

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The UN-proposed government’s Education Minister has announced that the beginning of the school year 2016/2017 is going to be modified to start on October 24 instead of October 02 for all school years.

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Algeria has decided, in accordance with Libyan authorities, to disallow Libyans with Gaddafi-era green passports from entering the country and thus cancel the “exceptional procedures” it put forward during the last period for security reasons, media outlets reported Algerian sources as saying.  

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Detonation experts at Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos operation blasted Friday dawn 15 tons of mines, bombs, explosives, and howitzers after they collected them from the areas liberated from the grip of IS militants since the kickoff of the battle in Sirte.

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A seven-year-old girl died Friday when the ceiling of the house she lives in collapsed in Tripoli’s old town. The Mukhtar of the old town said the girl’s name is Zainab Bisher, adding that he officially told the Local Governance Ministry to find swift solutions to protect about 600 houses from collapse in the old town, but all went in vain.  

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Sources said that the National Oil Corporation is negotiating a deal to sell a million oil barrels to China through Ras Lanuf oil port. This selling offer is the second via the port in the last period. The shipment is expected to leave Ras Lanuf port on September 18, sources told Reuters, adding the vessel has not been agreed on yet. Another shipment is yet expected to be negotiated from the same port, the sources indicated.  

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Clashes broke out between armed brigades from Tripoli and Misrata in the Libyan capital on Friday. Sources said Tripoli's Bashir Sadawi brigade clashed with the Presidential Guard of the High Council of State in Sidi Al-Masri district, some 2 km away from the HQ of the council.

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Libya Coast Guard intercepted a German rigid-hulled inflatable boat in the Libyan territorial waters on Friday.