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Libya's Government of National Unity (GNU) has refuted claims of an agreement with the U. to accept migrants expelled from American soil, emphasising that no such deal exists and asserting Libya's sovereignty. Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah stated Libya refuses to be a destination for expelled migrants.

Libya' the unrecognised administration backed by military leader khalifa haftar cannot be ignored. In their visit earlier this month, the European commissioner and ministers were meant to meet with eastern military officials.

Eight people were killed and 15 wounded when fighting broke out on Monday between the Libyan army and Islamist militants in the eastern city of Benghazi, medical sources said.

China is accused of trying to send $1 billion worth of drones to Libyan warlord khalifa haftar, disguised as Covid-19 aid, with help from corrupt UN officials. Canadian investigators uncovered a conspiracy involving Chinese state officials and Libyan nationals to evade UN sanctions. Two Libyan nationals have been charged in connection with the scheme.

Egypt's parliament gave President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi the green light for possible military intervention in Libya by approving the deployment of armed forces abroad to fight "terrorist groups" and "militias".

Flights between the eastern Libya city of Benghazi and the western city of Misrata were restored on Tuesday after a near seven year absence, the latest tentative step towards national reconciliation. An Afriqiyah Airways plane that took off from Benghazi touched down at Misrata airport at around 9:00 am (0700 GMT), the national airline said.

At a regular meeting in Brussels, EU foreign ministers signed off on the measures, which freeze any EU assets held by the companies, cut them off from EU finance markets and bar them from doing business with anyone in the bloc.

An uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule rapidly spreads, becoming an armed revolt aided by Nato air strikes. Gaddafi is ousted in August and killed in October. A rebel council stages elections for an interim General National Congress which creates a transitional government but true power lies with an array of local armed groups.

The opposing factions of Libya's divided parliament met in a frontline city on Monday for the first time after years of war and chaos, to debate a proposed unity government to oversee national elections this year under an international peace plan. More than 130 parliament members have travelled for the session to Sirte, a city battered by repeated battles since the 2011 NATO-backed rising against Muammar Gaddafi that left Libya with no strong central government for a decade.

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya expressed concern over what it said were arbitrary arrests, including of lawyers and members of the judiciary, calling for their immediate release. "UNSMIL is alarmed by the wave of arbitrary arrest and detentions across Libya by law enforcement and security actors," it said in a statement late Saturday.

The United Nations has condemned clashes between two armed groups in a residential suburb of the Libyan capital and the use of heavy weapons.