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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's political and military leaders met here Sunday  to discuss the latest military developments, the line of action of the 5+5 Joint Military Commission and measures taken to unify the military institution away from all political tug-of-war. The chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Manfi, and [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa on Sunday condemned the series of Israeli attacks that saw more than 10 people killed this weekend. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) said a five-year-old child was one of the victims. DIRCO said it was of grave concern that the ongoing [...]

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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Units of the Tunisian Navy foiled on Saturday night 17 attempts at clandestine migration and rescued 255 people, including 170 sub-Saharan migrants, the rest being all Tunisians. According to the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, Tunisians represent the majority of migrants of different nationalities who [...]

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Tricpoli, Libya (PANA) - There is growing controversy in recent days in Libya among several Libyan state institutions over the suspected presence of potassium bromate, a carcinogenic substance, in bread. The "Al-Wasat" newspaper, which highlighted the report,, revealed significant quantities of this harmful product beyond the permitted levels. Under the headline: "Carcinogenic [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan health authorities say 94 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in the country out of 373 samples analysed over the last 24 hours, representing a positivity rate of 25%. The National Centre for Disease Control said in a statement on Sunday that 140 recoveries [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Director-General of the National Centre for Disease Control, Haider Al-Sayeh, discussed with a number of officials working in the health sector, precautionary and preventive measures at border crossings to deal with the monkeypox disease. In a statement issued on Saturday, the Centre said the meeting was [...]

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New York, US (PANA) - Around one million species are facing extinction, according to a report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), an independent intergovernmental science and policy body supported by the UN. The report said it may be surprising to learn that even giraffes, parrots, and oak [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US Secretary of State. Antony Blinken has congratulated the Ivoirian people on their 62nd National Day which falls on Sunday. In a press statement posted on the website of the State Department, he said: "On this celebratory occasion, we reaffirm our enduring partnership and friendship [...]

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Washington, DC, US (PANA) - US Under Secretary of State Jose W. Fernandez is travelling to South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to join Secretary of State Antony Blinken who begins a three-nation African tour on Sunday that will also take him to Rwanda. A media note from [...]

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