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The Libyan Beach Volleyball Championship concluded Libya tournament on Friday in the coastal city of Zuwara, west of the capital Tripoli. The tournament that took off on Thursday was organized and sponsored by Aljazeera Sport's Club and under the auspices of the Libyan General Beach Ball Union. 13 teams from Zuwarah, Tripoli, Sabha, Zliten and Misrata participated the first phase of the tournament with the system of point collecting, awaiting the second phase that will takeplace in Benghazi in the coming period, while the final phase will be held in Misrata.

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The "Tripoli Movement" organized a protest in the Algeria square in central Tripoli on Saturday to denounce the aggression of Zionists on the occupied holy city of Al-Quds in Palestine. The protesters held banners condemning the repeated attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque. They also declared their solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of the brutal occupation and the Zionist assault on the holy mosque.

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Dignity Operation air force conducted Sunday fresh airstrikes on Derna for the third consecutive day, leaving material damage to civilians houses but no casualties.

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has mobilized forces in Sirte and is preparing to repel a large scale and imminent attack from ISIS militants, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Brigadier General Mohammed Al-Ghosari, has declared.

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The management of Tobruk Water Desalination Plant said in a statement on Saturday that the of the operating materials needed to keep it active, in addition to the growing age of the plant that has gone nearly 17 years without carrying out any large-scale refurbishment.

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The National Oil Corporation announced the successful export of its third shipment from the floating oil terminal of Gaza in the offshore Bori oil field. The terminal was operated during the first quarter of this year, according to the company's page on Facebook, which added that the export operation was carried out by Libyan crews without any presence of foreign engineers as in the previous two oil exports.

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The Etihad Handball Team is continuing its ongoing external training camp in Tunisia in preparation for the final match of the 2016-2017 Libyan League to be held in Gharyan later this month. The 10-day training in Sousse has seen most players selected to play in the squad this season under the supervision of Libyan coach Abdel Salam al-Ahmar.

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A meeting of the reconciliation committee between Zintan and Mashashiya was held on Saturday in the Municipality of Hawamad in the Nafusa Mountain. The meeting was attended by members of reconciliation committees from different cities and regions, in the hope to keep track of reconciliation progress and to form further sub-committees to deal with the problems and security breaches that occur from time to time in the region.

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Al-Kufra security forces have arrested 60 illegal immigrants trying to infiltrate into the city and cross the sand barrier to the north of Kufra at the tri-border crossing with Egypt and Sudan. The border areas adjacent to Kufra are a transit point hotbed for smuggling and illegal immigration to and from Libya via a three-way border which extends for hundreds of kilometers.

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MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Seven months after Libyan forces defeated Islamic State in the coastal city of Sirte, hundreds of bodies of foreign militants still lie stored in freezers as authorities negotiate with other governments to decide what to do with them, local officials say.

The corpses have been shipped to Misrata, a city further to the west whose forces led the fight to defeat Islamic State in Sirte in December.

Allowing the bodies to be shipped home to countries such as Tunisia, Sudan and Egypt would be sensitive for the governments involved, wary of acknowledging how many of their citizens left to fight as jihadists in Iraq, Syria and Libya.

"Our team removed hundreds of bodies," a member of the Misrata organized crime unit dealing with the bodies told Reuters, his face masked to conceal his identity because of security concerns.

"This is the main operation which allows us to preserve the bodies, document and photograph them and also collect DNA samples."

The crime unit said it was awaiting a decision from the Prosecutor General, who was in talks with foreign governments over the return of the bodies.

Islamic State has now been defeated in its main stronghold in the Iraqi city of Mosul and is under pressure in its base in the Syrian city of Raqqa. But at the height of its territorial control it attracted recruits from the Middle East, North Africa and Europe to its ranks.

In Tunisia alone, officials say more than 3,000 citizens left to fight in Syria, Iraq and Libya. Tunisians who trained in militant camps in Libya carried out two gun attacks on foreign tourists in 2015 that battered Tunisia's vital tourism industry.

Islamic State took over Sirte in 2015, taking advantage of infighting between rival Libyan armed factions and using the city as a base from which to attack oil fields and other nearby towns.

Writing by Patrick Markey; Editing by Mark Trevelyan

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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Fighting between the self-styled Libyan National Army and rival armed groups in Benghazi killed six troops and wounded eight as the LNA advanced into the last pockets of resistance in eastern Libya's largest city, a commander said on Saturday.

The LNA, led by Khalifa Haftar, also carried out air strikes on armed groups in the city of Derna, further east, who fired back with anti-aircraft cannon, witnesses told Reuters.

Haftar's eastern forces are engaged in a multi-sided conflict between factions that fought together to oust veteran Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 but are now battling each other.

A U.N.-backed government in Tripoli is trying to bring stability to the North African OPEC member, but it is struggling to impose its authority. Haftar has so far rejected the Tripoli government as his forces advance in eastern Libya.

Two weeks ago, Haftar declared Benghazi's "liberation" in a televised speech after three years of fighting. But street battles continue as his LNA troops face resistance from the Majlis Shura Thuwar Benghazi, an alliance of ex-rebels and Islamists.

"Special forces carried out an attack on Friday on the last resistance pockets of terrorism in Khraibeesh area and successfully the forces advanced and controlled several points," an LNA commander, Mari El-Houti, said of the Benghazi operation.

El-Houti said the advance was impeded by a large number of mines in the area. He said 30 mines were dismantled on Friday.

Haftar, a former Gaddafi ally who turned against him, has gained ground with support from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Derna, some 380 km (235 miles) east of Benghazi, is still under the control of an alliance of Islamists and former rebels called the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council.

Reporting by Ayman Al-Warfalli in Benghazi; writing by Ahmed Elumami in Tripoli; editing by Patrick Markey and Mark Trevelyan

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Eastern commander's forces battle resistance in Libya's Benghazi - Reuters

Libya's sports channel back on air in time for Libyan football league The Libya Observer After three years off the air, the Libya Sports Channel is preparing to return to the scene after development and modernisation work in the studios is nearing completion. The channel management has upgraded the graphics department and they are in ...

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Benghazi - The prime minister of Libya's internationally-recognised government has decried a religious edict issued by clerics affiliated with a rival government that bans the Ibadi, a Muslim sect to which hundreds of thousands of Libya's Amazigh adhere.

Fayez Serraj warned of "endangering social safety" and said on Friday that such edicts, or fatwas, could create discord.

A week ago, a religious committee under the government based in eastern Libya targeted Ibadi followers, describing them as a "misguided and aberrant group."

The Human Rights Watch criticised the fatwa.

Eric Goldstein, HRW's deputy director for Mideast and North Africa, said "religious authorities in Libya should stop pandering to extremists by castigating minorities in incendiary language."

Amazigh advocates say there're around 400 000 Ibadi Muslims in Libya, which has a population of 6 million.

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