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The eastern government of Abdullah Al-Thanni held talks in Bayda on Tuesday with a coalition of Chinese companies to discuss implementation of a number of power and infrastructure projects in the government’s controlled areas.

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The Libyan Football Federation announced Wednesday that it had assigned the national coach, Jalal Al-Damja, as the coach of the national soccer team after the Spanish coach, Javier Clemente was sacked almost a month ago.

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The Radisson Blu Hotel in Tripoli hosted Wednesday the establishing of the Libyan Children's Parliament that will be composed of 202 children chosen from all of the 101 Libyan municipalities.

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The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) Al-Siddiq Al-Kabeer, has stated that the acute shortage of cash in Libya is tied to the absence of security and stability as well as the entangled political situation.

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Ten Libyan western mayors held a meeting in Zliten on Tuesday to discuss the formation of National Association of Municipalities. 

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A military source from Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos said 5 African women, mainly from Eretria and Nigeria, turned themselves in to the Misrata-led forces on Tuesday, adding that they have closed in on IS militants in its last spot, Jizah. 

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The head of the media office of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos said the US airstrikes on IS in Sirte stopped two days ago as the period allocated for the operation by the US AFRICOM had ended, adding that the US has not renewed the period of the mission yet nor has it ended the operation altogether. 

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Libya’s Al-Itihad team has again refused to play the capital’s derby match against Tripoli-based Al-Ahli and conditioned its consent to play with the presence of foreign referees at the match. On Monday, Al-Itihad administration sent a letter to the Chief of the Libyan Football Federation, Edris Emharib, saying they won’t play the derby until a foreign set of referees is present. 

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Tarhouna and Bani Walid cities agreed on setting up a joint checkpoint on their joint local borders so that the two cities become more secure and the road linking them becomes safer. They also agreed on setting up mobile checkpoints, according to the Head of Bani Walid Municipality. 

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Ajdabiya Operations Force, which is part of the so-called Dignity Operation, led by renegade General Khalifa Haftar, arrested Wednesday dawn seven men from Jalu city after storming into their houses. “Among the seven men, there were four mosque preachers and imams.” A reliable source from Jalu city reported. 

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The interim committee of the General Electricity Company (GEC) along with some of the company’s expertise met Tuesday with representatives from the Turkish company Enka, which is working on the project of Ubari gas power station.