NewsOvernight reports: Libyan parliaments to initiate talks for unified elections
Overnight reports: Libyan parliaments to initiate talks for unified elections
This happened while you were sleeping. Here's what global agencies reported overnight from Thursday to Friday.
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- Competing two Libyan parliaments agreed in Morocco to start talks aimed at using the UN's assistance to lead to joint elections that will end a decade of political stalemate, reported Stephanie Koury, acting head of the United Nations Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). Three years after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya split into two parts. The West is ruled from Tripoli by the UN-recognized Government of National Unity with the High Council of State acting as a parliament, and the East by General Khalifa Haftar and his supporting senate, known as the House of Representatives, from Benghazi.
- The main Administrative Court in Lisbon (TCAS) acquitted 11 sailors of the Portuguese warship NRP Mondego who, in March 2023, refused to set sail from the Madeira Archipelago after a Russian naval fleet appeared in the area. According to the court ruling, cited by Portuguese media, the presiding judge ruled that during the 2023 trial ending in disciplinary penalties, the accused were not properly informed by their commander of their rights and obligations.
- Egyptian Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, a student at George Mason University (GMU) in Virginia, was charged with possession of weapons of mass destruction and planning an attack on the Israeli Consulate General in New York using a bomb, assault rifle, or suicide vest. He faces 20 years in prison. According to "The Washington Post," prosecutors accuse him of demonstrating to an undercover agent how to build an explosive device with the intent to murder persons under international protection. During the investigation, additional charges may be added. Hassan will be detained until the trial.
