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Libya's neighbors Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia agreed on Tuesday to push for political dialogue to end the crisis in the North African country and rejected foreign interference or any military solution.

The "Algiers declaration" came after Egyptian jets last month carried out repeated airstrikes targeting camps for Islamist militants inside Libya who Cairo says were responsible for an attack on Egyptian Christians.

The joint statement appeared to be an effort to smooth over differences among the North African neighbors over how to bring stability to Libya, where rival armed and political factions have been fighting since the fall of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.

A U.N.-backed government installed in Tripoli is trying to expand its influence and work with Western powers on security and immigration. But it has been rejected by some armed factions inside Tripoli and powerful rivals to the east backed by military commander Khalifa Hafter.

Algeria has been pushing for an inclusive dialogue in Libya, while Egypt has more openly voiced support for Haftar, who has launched campaigns against Islamist militants and has so far rejected a U.N.-backed government in Tripoli.

The ministers focussed on the "preservation of territorial integrity, sovereignty and unity of Libya", they said at the end of their closed-door meeting.

"The political solution is the only way to resolve the crisis through inclusive dialogue, the rejection of interference and military options," said the statement on Algeria's state news agency APS.

Egypt sees any militant activity in eastern Libya, which is near its border, as a threat to its own national security. One of the reasons Egypt's leadership has supported Haftar since 2014 is to try to ensure all Islamists are driven from eastern Libya.

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Bodies of seven African migrants recovered from truck in Libya

Twenty-eight others, including five women, were rescued on Sunday when the truck was discovered at Garabulli, a town some 50 km east of Tripoli.

FILE: A migrant is rescued from the Mediterranean sea by a member of Proactiva Open Arms NGO north of Libya on 3 October 2016. Picture: AFP.

TRIPOLI Seven African migrants died, apparently from suffocation, after being locked for two days in a refrigerated truck that was abandoned by people smugglers on the Libyan coast, officials said.

Twenty-eight others, including five women, were rescued on Sunday when the truck was discovered at Garabulli, a town some 50 km east of Tripoli that is a common departure point for migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Italy.

We got a call from a civilian who reported that he could hear voices coming from a truck, which he believed contained Africans, based on their language, said Adel Mostafa, an anti-illegal migration official in Tripoli.

The survivors said they had been left there by smugglers, according to Hosni Abu Ayana, a second official at the Tripoli detention centre to which they were brought. The migrants said the truck driver left the vehicle at the side of the road after unknown gunmen began firing at the tyres.

Libya is the main gateway for migrants trying to reach Europe by sea. The North African country slipped into turmoil after its 2011 uprising and migrant smugglers operate with impunity, packing people onto ill-equipped boats that often sink or break down.

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General view of a meeting of oil ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, May 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

General view of a meeting of oil ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, May 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

A M249 light machine gun used by Libyan rebels in the Western front line town of Gualish is seen at the entrance of the deserted town July 12, 2011. AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images)

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OPEC production grew in May as Libya, Nigeria recover

OPEC boosted its oil production in May as output recovered in Libya and Nigeria, two countries exempt from the group's recent deal to curb global supplies, new data shows.

The Saudi-led cartel put out 32.12 million barrels of oil a day last month, up by 270,000 barrels a day in the month before, according to an S&P Global Platts survey released on Friday. That marks OPEC's first monthly increase since it began slashing production earlier this year.

In Libya, daily oil production rose by 180,000 barrels to 730,000 barrels, with the bulk of the increase coming from a massive field that had stopped producing oil for months. Nigeria's daily output climbed by 80,000 barrels to 1.73 million barrels, as exporters began sending out shipments from its previously shuttered Forcados terminal.

"The biggest problem OPEC is facing is the return of oil from Libya and Nigeria, and accommodating them," said Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston. "It just means there's more oil on the market."

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In Iraq, oil producers raised daily output by 70,000 barrels to 4.43 million barrels. Those increases were offset by reductions in Algeria and Saudi Arabia, the Platts data show.

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