The former commander in the ranks of Khalifa Haftar`s Dignity Operation and its former spokesman, Mohammed Hijazi, made a televised attack on rogue General Khalifa Haftar on Saturday, accusing him of being the main cause of the crises that is crippling the country, especially in the eastern region.

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Deputy Minister of Interior of Presidential Council, Faraj Egaim, escaped an assassination attempt after a car bomb hit his convoy in Benghazi on Sunday. Local media outlets said that Egaim was slightly wounded in the blast, which took place in Sidi Khalifa district.

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The armed forces and different brigades involved in the military operation in Wershiffana district in southwestern Tripoli issued Saturday evening a joint statement saying that their operation comes at the height of unprecedented and systematic criminal activities as well as banditry in the district.

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Undersecretary of Education Ministry, Adel Jumaa, announced on Saturday that schools in Al Owainiya and Zawiat Al-Bagoul villages in Mashashiya district, western Libya, have been reopened after an interruption of six consecutive years due to displacement. Through the Information Office page of the Presidential Council on Facebook, the Education Inspectorate of Mashashiya called on preserving the educational institutions by the recruitment of teachers in order to overcome the deficit in some of the school subjects and regularize their status. Residents of Al Owainiya and Zawiat Al-Bagoul villages were displaced by Zintan in 2011. They returned back to their homes in May 2017.

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The Fuel and Gas Crisis Committee of the Brega Oil Marketing Company announced on Saturday that it had delivered 3 million liters of gasoline to filling stations in Tripoli, denying any shortage of gasoline fuel.  The Committee said that work is on its way to reopen the closed filling stations, warning of fabricating fuel crises in the capital. Tripoli residents woke up last Thursday to long queues in front of filling stations without any signs of an impending fuel crisis.

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The Special Deterrence Force (SDF) has arrested the supervisors of Libya Comic Con, organized by SIGMA Exhibition Company at Dat Al-Emad Tower in Tripoli. On its Facebook page on Friday, the Deterrent Force explained that the detainees will be transferred to the Public Prosecution Office for violating “public morals”, accusing such events of spreading indecent material and performance and steering teenagers towards committing crimes, according to the SDF. Reports say the detainees were released hours after detention.

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A commander in the 12th Brigade of the Dignity Operation force in the south has declared that two of their fighters were killed in an armed attack while patrolling at Dar Brak crossroad between Sabha and Jufra on Friday. The commander clarified that their forces were on their way to receive fuel cars coming from Misrata in order to secure their route to Sabha, pointing out that the identity of the attackers could not be confirmed yet, but are more likely to be fuel smugglers.

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A source from the Libyan Football Federation has confirmed that the Libyan football league (LFL) will be suspended for more than two months due to the participation of the Libyan national football team in the finals of the 2018 African Nations Championship next January in Morocco. The source added that the league matches will resume in the second round of LFL after the participation in CHAN 2018. The source pointed out that at the meantime the national team will take part in the Kenya friendly competition, which will kick off at the end of this month and is to continue until the beginning of December.

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The Cultural Office of Kabaw has organized the first scientific conference on local cultures on Saturday with the sponsorship of the Municipal Council of Kabaw, under the slogan "Culture brings us together". The event was attended by the Mayor, Mohammed Oshin, the director of Culture Bureau ,Kabao Mourad Makhlouf, in addition to literary and intellectual figures. Several topics and themes were discussed at the conference, notably, how to spread and share different local cultures among Libyans. Kabaw is a town in Nafousa Mountain in northwestern Libya.

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Security forces in Tripoli have found an unidentified body of a young man hanging from a tree in the woods known as “Bosco” on the Airport Road. According to sources, a local resident discovered the body and informed a police patrol in the area, which in turn informed the Central Security Bureau. The relevant authorities called upon anyone who might help in identifying the body to come in at the security headquarters of Hamza Camp on the Airport Road. Reports said it was the result of a suicide.

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The Second-in-Command of the Battalion 30 for protecting the Sharara oil field, Abdullah Ibrahim, said that they had managed to besiege the kidnappers of four foreigners working at Ubari gas-fired power plant. On a local channel, Ibrahim said that the crisis is on its way to winding down and that the detainees will be freed within the next few hours, clarifying that armed clashes took place between them and the kidnappers who were trapped in Wadi Waraour area north of Ghat town, about 50 km from the Libyan- Algerian border. The four foreign workers were abducted in Ubari town in southern Libya by unknown gunmen on Friday.

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