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Gunmen have killed a US citizen working at an international school in the Libyan city of Benghazi, medical and security sources said.

North Korea's regime is often casually dismissed as "crazy." Indeed, the existence of a hermetically sealed state -- a combination of communism and national fascism -- so closed-off to the outside world that the Internet does not exist except for a privileged few, strikes outside observers as beyond belief.

On a dusty parade ground outside Tripoli, young recruits march and bark out slogans for the new Libyan army that Western powers hope can turn the tide on militias threatening to engulf the North African country in anarchy.

Libyan businessman Basit Igtet is a designer. A former fashion exhibitor, he designed clothes.

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The United States and its partners, who say they are training to "NATO standards," are not the only ones moving to fill the security vacuum.

Zidan spoke Wednesday, as militias and tribesmen based in the east escalated their pressure on his government by saying that the oil terminals will not open until the government agrees to set up a committee with representatives of the country's three regions to divide up oil revenues.

Cairo: - The Arab Network for Human Rights Information today condemned the ongoing murder of activists, media professionals and opinion makers in Libya, under the failure of government, which came to power following the overthrow of autocratic Muammar Al-Gaddafi in 2011, to restore security in the Libyan street and to disarm the militias.

Western powers invoked the "responsibility to protect" to bomb Libya. The African Union asked NATO not to intervene, but was ignored.

This evening in Britain, Richard Falk - the UN official whose mandate is to investigate "Israel's violations of the principles and bases of international law" - will speak at the University of East Anglia, at the invitation of a Green Party activist.

The spectre is looming of a second Syrian civil war with the head of the opposition's official forces declaring that he is prepared to join regime troops in the future to drive out al-Qa'ida-linked extremists who have taken over swathes of rebel-held territories.

Edda Mueller, head of the German section of Transparency International, attends a news conference where she presented the Global Corruption Report 2013 in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013.

If it works, it has the potential to transform the region's economy. The late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had a string of crazy ideas to bring about his vision of a united pan-Africa with himself at its helm.

DRC's president Joseph Kabila has thanked South Africa for its role in defeating the M23 rebels in Goma, the department of international relations and co-operation says.

Libya needs to formulate a vision and a plan for what it wants to be in 10 or 20 years.

Deepening divisions among Libya's myriad armed groups are increasingly stirring conflict in this North African state.

Libya's army told former militia fighters and protesters to end their occupations of oilfields and ports and allow crude exports to restart, saying the OPEC country risked sliding into lawlessness.

'I do not say that he is not guilty, I just say that he should have a fair trial," said Anoud Senussi in an interview with the Sunday Herald about her father, Abdullah Senussi, Colonel Gaddafi's former intelligence chief and the alleged mastermind behind the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

A show of force in Benghazi. Libya's Thunderbolt Brigade is out on the streets in a bid to put an end to instability that has left the city plagued with assassinations and small-scale bomb attacks.

A member of the Libyan army guards the streets following yesterday's clashes in Benghazi November 26, 2013.