News Roundup - Thu, Oct 27, 2016

Last Updated: 9:57pm

Al-Itihad has won the derby match of the capital against Al-Ahli 2-0 in the match that was held at Tripoli stadium.

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Libyan Karate fighter Adel Amin refused on Thursday to face his Israeli opponent Ahmed Abu Bassal in the Kumite 84+kg competitions of the 2016 Karate World Championships.

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The head of the media office of the Libyan Tripoli-based National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mohammed Al-Maghribi, said in a statement that Libya has experienced a remarkable hike in oil production hitting 670 thousand barrels per day.

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Misrata-led forces started Thursday their final battle in Sirte, moving into Jiza apartment blocks, the last ISIS-held area in the city.

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An inflatable boat carrying 126 African immigrants capsized off the coast of Libya on Wednesday leaving 97 immigrants dead, the country's Coast Guard has reported.

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A group of 81 Libyan Coast Guard trainees and 5 supervisors left the country on Wednesday to start training in the open sea as part of EU Operation Sophia program.

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Council of Sooq Jumua Elders and Notables has denounced the statement of Martin Kobler, UN envoy to Libya, about uniting the Libyan army under the command of Khalifa Haftar, whom the council described as a war criminal and retired war captive. It also decried the Presidential Council’s forgery of the Sixth Libyan Army Gathering’s statement by deleting the description of Haftar as a war criminal.

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Italian Hospital opened Wednesday in Misrata’s Air Academy. The hospital has a capacity of 60 beds, a basic and emergency operation rooms, and an intensive care room. The Italian hospital will accommodate fighters from Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos who are fighting IS militants in Sirte. The Italian hospital has 70 medical staffers and 135 medical assistants and service workers in all departments.  

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Airbus freighter (A300-600) has arrived this morning in Misrata airport to join the Afriqiyah Airways fleet.

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The Central Bank of Libya has sent cash money to a number of southern Libyan cities, Nafousah Mountain cities, and Misrata. The CBL brought 400 million Libyan dinars via Mitiga airport on Wednesday and a similar sum last week.   

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Three people from Al-Zawiya city were killed as their car was under heavy fire when a fake checkpoint on Zawiyat Amoura, Wershiffana, shot at them. Wershiffana district is a region where crimes and armed gangsters are quite spread and it has been registered to have the highest crimes rate.