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German foreign Minister Heiko Maas speaks in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The foreign ministers of France, Italy and Germany arrived in Tripoli Thursday, to show their support to Libya’s newly elected transitional authorities, who are expected to lead the war-stricken country through general elections end of 2021. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed)

EU top diplomats in Libya to support interim authorities

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

UN Special Envoy for Libya Jan Kubis addresses the media during a news conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

UN envoy demands foreign fighters and mercenaries exit Libya

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

$FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2021 file photo, Libyan Prime Minister-designate Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah speaks during a news conference in Tripoli, Libya. Lawmakers in Libya have begun consultations aimed at confirming a newly appointed government that would lead the war-wrecked country through elections late this year. More than 130 members of the fractured House of Representatives were meeting Monday, March 8, 2021 in the coastal city of Sirte. Dbeibah presented his proposed Cabinet to Speaker Aguila Saleh last week.(AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)$

Italian minister meets Libya’s new Tripoli government

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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2020 file photo, people carry a giant Libyan flag at the Martyr square during a march commemorating the anniversary of anti-Gadhafi protests in Tripoli, Libya. A recent U.N. experts report has sketched a grim picture of conflict-wrecked Libya, saying a network of foreign governments has turned the oil-rich country into a stage to play out rivalries. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

UN report documents mass violations of Libya arms embargo

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

CORRECTS THE ORDER OF POSITION FROM RIGHT TO LEFT- Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, front right, and former head of Libya’s UN-backed government Fayez Sarraj, center, and Mohamed al-Menfi, front left, head of the new interim government’s presidential council, stand together after a ceremony marking the official handover of power to the new government, in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Sarraj, the head of the Tripoli-based government, has been in conflict with a rival administration in the country’s East for years. Dbeibah’s interim government is to replace the country’s two rival administrations and lead the war-torn North African nation through elections later this year. (AP Photo/ Hazem Turkia)

Interim Libya government assumes power after smooth handover

By BY RAMI MUSA AND SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Libya interim gov’t sworn in, replaces rival administrations

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Eastern Libyan forces say senior local IS militant captured

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UN urges foreign troops and mercenaries to leave Libya

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2021 file photo, Libyan Prime Minister-designate Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah speaks during a news conference in Tripoli, Libya. On Wednesday, March 10, 2021, Libyan lawmakers confirmed a newly appointed government to lead the war-wrecked country through elections by the end of the year. The government of Dbeibah replaces the two rival administrations that have split the North African country for years. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

Libyan lawmakers confirm interim unity government

By RAMI MUSA AND SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

$FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2021 file photo, Libyan Prime Minister-designate Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah speaks during a news conference in Tripoli, Libya. Lawmakers in Libya have begun consultations aimed at confirming a newly appointed government that would lead the war-wrecked country through elections late this year. More than 130 members of the fractured House of Representatives were meeting Monday, March 8, 2021 in the coastal city of Sirte. Dbeibah presented his proposed Cabinet to Speaker Aguila Saleh last week.(AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)$

Libya: Lawmakers begin consultations on new government

By RAMI MUSA - Associated Press

UN says 15 Europe-bound migrants die at sea off Libya

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Libya authorities free journalists detained after PM presser

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Libya media authority: Journalist detained after PM presser

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Rights group: Libya fails to hold war criminals accountable

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

Prime Minister designate Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah speaks during a news conference on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021 in Tripoli, Libya. Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah was set to announce his Cabinet and send it to Libya's House of Representatives for approval. Instead, Dbeibah told reporters he only shared with Libyan lawmakers proposed guidelines for the selection of Cabinet members and an outline of his priorities in the coming period. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed)

Libya’s new PM delays naming Cabinet as deadline looms

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

UN says 41 Europe-bound migrants drown in Mediterranean

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 26, 2019 file photo, Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha speaks during a news conference in Tunis, Tunisia. The motorcade of the interior minister of Libya’s U.N.-backed government came under attack on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, in the capital, Tripoli, a government spokesman said. Bashagha survived the attack. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)

Libyan interior minister survives attack on motorcade

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

UN experts: Trump ally, UAE firms violated Libya sanctions

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 13, 2014 file photo, Jan Kubis, United Nation representative for Afghanistan speaks during a joint press conference at the Independent Election Commission office in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kubis, the U.N. special envoy to Libya on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, met with the country’s east-based military commander as part of efforts to unite rival factions in the war-torn North African nation ahead of elections scheduled for December.(AP photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

UN envoy meets east-based Libya commander in push for unity

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

In this Sunday Oct. 23, 2011, file photo, Libyan celebrate at Saha Kish Square in Benghazi, Libya, as Libya's transitional government declares the official liberation of Libya after months of bloodshed that culminated in the death of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. Ten years ago, an uprising in Tunisia opened the way for a wave of popular revolts against authoritarian rulers across the Middle East known as the Arab Spring. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Libyans mark 2011 uprising with eyes on interim gov’t

By Saleh Sarrar and Samy Magdy - Associated Press