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The pilots Mukhtar Fakroun and Omar Dogha were killed due to aircraft crash on Wednesday as they were raiding on IS positions in Sirte, said the commander of aerial operations room and Misrata airbase, adding that investigations are underway for the reason, which is probably a technical damage.  

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UN-proposed government’s Transportations Minister, Milad Matouq, met the Turkish Ambassador to Libya to discuss mutual relations in the field. In a joint conference, the minister said they discussed the aviation traffic between Libya and Turkey and lifting the visa obligation on Libyans as well as the return of Turkish companies to work in transport, roads, and airport projects, saying there are contracts worth billion dollars signed by Libya with Turkish firms.   

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The member of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives, Yonis Fannush, said Cyrenaica HoR members’ acts have crossed the red line, pointing out that they are advocating separating Libya into three regions.

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Libya’s Soccer League continues on Thursday after two days of suspension. Two matches took place today in the second group. Abi Al-Ashahar vs Al-Tarasana at Al-Ahli club stadium (1-0), and Al-Madina, the top team on the group, vs Al-Sharara at Tripoli stadium (3-1). On Friday, Al-Mahala plays Al-Wihdaو and Al-Itihad plays Al-Olamby, while on Saturday, Al-Shatt plays Khaleej Sirte. Al-MAdina is the first top team in the second group by 18 points, while Al-Ahli rang second with 17, Al-Itihad, 16 Al-Shatt 14, and Al-Sweihli 13.

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Top secret meetings took place on July 26-27 in Cairo, Egypt, between a number of Egyptian officials and Libyan ones in the presence of UAE delegates, aiming at assessing the UN-proposed government’s Presidential Council and Khalifa Haftar forces’ might in the fight against Benghazi revolutionaries, the Huffington Post Arabic reported.

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Ghadames Municipality appointed Yasin Fayad as the mayor of the city to replace the former mayor, Yacoup Daw, who asked to be pardoned from continuing in his post. The Head of the central committee for the municipalities, Othman Kajiji, confirmed that the election of the new mayor was voted unanimously by the municipal members, saying the committee supervised the reelection of 20 former mayors.

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The deputy head of the UN-proposed government’s Presidential Council, Mousa Al-Kouni, met Wednesday with a number of military officers from the south at the Prime Ministry headquarters in Tripoli. Brigadier Tawfeeq Khalid said the meeting resulted in agreement on a mechanism to boost the presence of military units of the army on the southern borders as well as to boost the capabilities and equipment of the military units that are positioned in the south in general.   

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Sirte’s health department sent Wednesday a medicines and supplies shipment for the health centers and units in the IS- freed areas in Sirte – Abu Hadi, Al-Arbayeen, Al-Sawawa, and AlBatouma Jaref. The head of the medical services in Sirte’s health department said the shipment, which arrived on Thursday, is for 5 health centers, saying it included medicines and supplies as well as equipment for reopening the medical units that are closed.     

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