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GAC opens Benghazi showroom, signs strategic deals to expand presence in North Africa
Gasgoo
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June 25, 2025
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- GAC Group ("GAC") recently inaugurated its new dealership showroom in Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city, marking a significant step forward in its North African market expansion，according to a press release GAC INTERNATIONAL...
From the ice caps to the moon: Northeastern professor charts military’s environmental adaptation
Northeastern Global News - Massachusetts
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July 10, 2025
Gretchen Heefner’s second book, “Sand, Snow, and Stardust,” looks at the history of the U.S. military’s efforts to learn how to build bases in the most extreme place Gretchen Heefner’s book, Sand, Snow and Stardust looks at how military engineers...
Why has Trump hit Canada with a 35 percent trade tariff?
Al Jazeera
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July 11, 2025
United States President Donald Trump has announced that he will raise import tariffs on most Canadian goods to 35 percent, even though Canada has agreed to rescind its planned digital services tax as the US demanded. This comes as Trump sends...
Libya’s engineered collapse: How oil, militias, and foreign powers hijacked the state
Weekly Blitz
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June 16, 2025
Libya’s engineered collapse: How oil, militias, and foreign powers hijacked the state More than a decade has passed since the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, yet instead of blossoming into a stable democracy or even a...
Libyan central bank governor calls for promotion of digital infrastructure in banking sector
Panapress
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June 16, 2025
16 june 2025 - 10:39:47 MA/BBA 387 Views Panafrican News Agency Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (BCL), Naji Mohamed Issa, has stressed the importance of developing the digital infrastructure of the banking sector...
Trump plans 35% tariff for Canada. Here are the other countries that received tariff letters
Richmond Times Dispatch - Virginia
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said in a letter that he will raise taxes on many imported goods from Canada to 35%, deepening a rift between two North American countries that have suffered a debilitating blow to their decades-old alliance....
MSF remains ready to resume medical activities in Libya
Doctors Without Borders
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June 24, 2025
Two and a half months after the forced suspension of our activities by the Libyan authorities, following a wave of repression that affected ten humanitarian organisations present in the west of the country, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reaffirms...
Wall Street closes day at all-time highs as Nvidia soars
CatholicVote - Wisconsin
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July 10, 2025
Wall Street closed at all-time highs July 9, with every major index posting gains amid a record-breaking leap from tech giant Nvidia. The Nasdaq Composite led the rally, climbing 0.9% to a record 20,611.34 points. The S&P 500 rose 0.6%, and the...
Odessa region becomes a priority area for recovery funding
The Odessa Journal
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In Rome, during the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC2025), Ukraine’s Ministry for Communities and Territories Development and Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed a package of decisions that mark a new stage in the strategic partnership...
Most well-off East Africans revealed
Independent (Uganda)
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July 11, 2025
So why are Ugandans the most angry? COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | When Ugandans are asked to evaluate their life based on quality of life, happiness, and fulfillment on a ladder with steps numbered from 0 (the worst possible life) to 10 (the...
Libyan Italian Forum for Development and Reconstruction to be held in Benghazi from 25 to 26 June
Libya Herald
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June 15, 2025
The Benghazi Chamber of Commerce announced that the Libyan Italian Forum for Development and Reconstruction will be held in Benghazi from 25 to 26 June. The event is jointly organised by the Libyan Development and Reconstruction Fund, headed by...
Supreme Court rules Trump can rapidly deport immigrants to Libya, South Sudan and other countries they aren’t from
The Conversation
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June 24, 2025
For the past several months, the Trump administration has been trying to deport immigrants to countries they are not from – despite an April 2025 federal ruling that had blocked the White House from doing so. A divided Supreme Court decided on...
NOC discusses reactivating shut-in oil wells with Schlumberger Libya
The Libya Observer
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The Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Masoud Suleiman, met with Mustafa Ajaj, CEO of Schlumberger Libya, to discuss expanding cooperation in reactivating shut-in wells and developing oil fields using integrated solutions and modern...
Qatari money is quietly fuelling anti-Israel rhetoric in Canada, new report warns
The Canadian Jewish News
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July 11, 2025
While envoys from Israel and Hamas met this week in Qatar to negotiate the latest peace effort for the release of the hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza, a new report warns that Canada should pay closer attention to the millions of dollars in...
Sudan Investigates U.S. Chemical Weapons Allegations Amid Sanctions and Trump’s Push for Peace
Watan
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July 11, 2025
Watan-The Sudanese government announced Thursday that it has begun taking practical steps to address U.S. allegations that the Sudanese army used chemical weapons during the ongoing war that erupted in April 2023. Officials also noted that...
Libya: LNA Commander Makes Changes in Military Leadership
The Tripoli Post
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June 14, 2025
Benghazi— The Libyan National Army’s (LNA) Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar appoi nted Major General Abdel Salam Al-Hassi, as Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Land Forces. Al-Hassi has been until Thursday working at the...
“There is no state built by gangs and criminality, it’s built by engineers, youth, consultants, security, police and army”: Aldabaiba
Libya Herald
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June 23, 2025
Tripoli based Libyan Prime Minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba said “There is no state built by gangs and criminality, the state is built by engineers, young people and consultants, security, police and army.” ‘‘We will continue (the Power Station and...
Lifting Libyan Voices Project
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
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June 23, 2025
Background The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) is delivering the Lifting Libyan Voices (LLV) program over the next year pending donor funding. The aim of this program is to strengthen the effectiveness of Libya’s human rights CSOs to...
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B-2s and bunker busters: Inside the tech and tensions of the Iran-US-Israel war
Firstpost
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June 23, 2025
American President Donald Trump described US military strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites as a “spectacular military success” and added that the facilities were “completely and totally obliterated”. He was addressing the world from the White...
Why civilizational diversity must be respected
CGTN
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One of the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx in Giza, Egypt, June 19, 2025. /CFP One of the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx in Giza, Egypt, June 19, 2025. /CFP Editor's note: CGTN's First Voice provides instant commentary on breaking stories. The...