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Islanders Vote for Falklands to Remain British |
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With only three votes against, the people of the Falkland Islands, known by Argentina as Las Maldivas, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of remaining a UK overseas territory in a referendum called to decide whether they wanted to retain their political status. |
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Here is Your Chance |
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Have you ever wondered why the Internet connection in Libya is so slow? Have you found yourself dying for the explanation that could justify your frustration? Well, you are not alone and this week, The Tripoli Post is giving you the chance to ask those questions with a probable chance of getting an answer. |
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Opinion: Funding and Denouncing Israeli Occupation: Europe’s Odd Policy in Palestine - by Ramzy Baroud |
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More bad news emerged from Israel in recent weeks. It's not that good news has the habit of being associated with Israel, its military occupation, institutionalised discrimination and mistreatment of Palestinians, but the emerging consensus that Israel is heading to an irrevocably perilous course is now crossing the realm of political analysts to that of international organisations that are often supportive or too lenient in the face of Israel’s militancy and dismissal of international law. |
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Homemade Alcohol Kills More than 41 in Libya |
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Libyan Ministry Health announced Monday that 41 people have died as a result of drinking homemade alcohol that contained poisonous methanol. The death toll is expected to rise. |
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Opinion: Afghanistan: The Najibullah Syndrome - by Gwynne Dyer |
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“Yesterday's bombings (in Afghanistan) in the name of the Taliban were aimed at serving the foreigners and supporting the presence of the foreigners in Afghanistan and keeping them in Afghanistan by intimidating us,” said Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai on Sunday. What on Earth could he have meant by that?
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The Labour Party Claims Victory in Malta General Election |
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The Labour Party, under the guidance of 39-year-old leader Joseph Muscat has won the right to govern the Mediterranean island of Malta for the next five years. It won a landslide victory with a majority of at least seven seats in Parliament. |
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Malta Goes to the Polls in General Election |
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The people of Libya’s Mediterranean neighbourly republic of Malta, Saturday goes to the polls in a general election that could bring to power after almost 25 years of conservative rule by the Nationalist party, a Labour government. |
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Thousands in Libya Need Help Following Tribal Clashes, ICRC Says |
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Over the past three days, thousands of people have been displaced by tribal clashes in Libya's Nafusa mountains. In cooperation with the Libyan Red Crescent, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is delivering food, medicines and other essential aid to more than 3,000 people who fled their homes to seek refuge in nearby towns. |
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UNSMIL Representatives Condemns Attack on Magharief |
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Following the gunfire attack against his vehicle and the incidents that took place on Tuesday during a meeting of the General National Congress, GNC, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya UNSMIL,Tarek Mitri has contacted Mohamed Magharief, the President of the General National Congress, GNC to express his strong condemnation of the attack. |
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EU-Interpol Programme Supporting Libya Border Security |
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In an attempt to improve border security and help security sector reform at the Tripoli International Airport Libyan airport, the European Union, EU, and Interpol have agreed on a deal with Tripoli airport authorities to establish a real-time passport control capacity at the airport |
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Opinion: Venezuela After Chavez - by Gwynne Dyer |
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“The graveyards are full of indispensable men,” said Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minster of France during the First World War, and promptly died to prove his point. He was duly replaced, and France was just fine without him. Same goes for Hugo Chavez and Venezuela. |
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President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela Dies at 58 |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Sanchez dies of cancer. His welfare programmes reduced Venezuela's poverty rate from close to 80% in the 1990s to about 20%, and wiped out illiteracy. To millions of poor Venezuelans excluded from meaningful participation in politics, Chavez offered hope for a new kind of democracy that would open doors of government to them. |
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Abdul Hakim Belhaj Willing to Settle With UK Over Libyan Rendition |
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Abdel Hakim Belhaj Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a Libyan citizen who was a leading figure in the rebel forces that helped overthrow the dictatorial Gaddafi regime in 2011, and who was suing the British government for its alleged role in his 2004 rendition to Libya has offered to settle the case. |
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