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Several dozen Egyptians staged a protest outside the Egyptian consulate Benghazis Fuwaihat district today in protest at what they claimed was their ill-treatment in Libya. |
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A five-star hotel in Tripoli evacuated its staff and guests after receiving a bomb threat on Friday, disrupting a film festival. |
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An explosion hit a police station in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday. The explosion at Barka police station came early in the morning, destroying the facade but leaving no causalities, the officials said. It was the second bombing at the site this year. |
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Bomb attack on base of Libyan army brigade in Benghazi. Video report shows aftermath of bombing. |
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Gunmen stormed the Interior Ministry, which oversees police, and forced employees out. The men charge that the ministry is not paying them their salaries. A group of angry police officers entered the compound of the interior ministry on the airport road, firing their guns into air and demanding promotions and salary hikes, witnesses said. |
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About 200 armed men surrounded the Foreign Ministry building in Tripoli, demanding the ministry hire former fighters who helped overthrow Gadhafi. The men allege that many supporters of the old regime are still holding senior positions in the ministry and its missions abroad. About 38 trucks, some with machine guns, surrounded the ministry all day. After sundown, gunmen were still blocking access to the building. |
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At the same time, an Iraqi journalist and a Turkish technician for the IHA Turkish network were taken by another armed group, apparently one not linked to the militia involved in the Al-Farjani kidnapping. The two were re-leased after several hours and were not mistreated. |
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On 28 April, armed militiamen kidnapped Mahmoud Al-Farjani, correspondent for Al-Arabiya, seizing him in the Saudi-owned network's office, which lies across the street from the Foreign Ministry.Al-Farjani was held for seven hours. His kidnappers beat him repeatedly and threatened to kill him. Before the kidnapping, the journalist had already received numerous threats arising from his work. |
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Armed men stormed the main state-run al-Wataniya TV channel, forcing its employees out. Live shows were cancelled, and al-Wataniya was airing only archive video on Sunday. Similar to those outside the Foreign Ministry, the men were demanding the removal of Gadhafi-era officials from the station. |
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Local residents in the Benghazis East Selmani district last night decided to take the law into their own hands and kicked out members of an army brigade on their housing estate, whom they accused of crimi-nal activity, destroying the building they were using. |
