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Libyan parliament sacks prime minister over failure to control #oil_ports
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The Libyan parliament voted Tuesday to oust Prime Minister Ali Zeidan amid anger at his government’s failure to stop eastern rebels from independently exporting oil. Libyan state television said Defense Minister Abdullah al-Thani will become acting prime minister. “The Congress voted to withdraw its confidence in the prime minister by 124 votes,” MP Suleiman al-Zubi told AFP. Defense Minister Abdullah al-Thani was named interim premier for the two weeks that General National Congress now has to agree on a permanent replacement, he added. read more

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Handicapped ex-#rebels break into Libyan #parliament
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A number of disabled former Libyan rebels that helped NATO forces topple the government of Muammar Gaddafi two years ago, broke into the parliament building and vandalized some of it Tuesday, an MP told AFP. The protest came on the eve of the second anniversary of the rebels’ declaration of victory over the former government’s forces, three days after Gaddafi was captured and killed outside his home town Sirte. read (...)

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