Tripoli

Libya?s internationally-recognized government plans to exclude Turkish companies from contracts, a cabinet statement has said, effectively banning them from the oil producer, as Reuters reported today.

Two bombs struck the empty residence of the Iranian ambassador in the Libyan capital on Sunday, security officials said, but nobody was hurt.
      
The attack was the latest to target a diplomatic mission in Tripoli, where most embassies have been shut since summer 2014 as militias battled for control of the city.
      

Police in Tripoli in the central Peloponnese were on Wednesday looking for two suspects believed to have robbed an elderly woman in her home in the village of Milia in the early hours of the day.

A Libyan court trying two Bulgarian nationals on charges of smuggling oil products will most likely postpone its sitting scheduled for Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia has said

The Islamic State released a video on Sunday that showed the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya. Hours after the release, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned that his country would respond to the deaths.

The five-minute video showing the deaths has been confirmed as authentic. It appeared on the Twitter feed of a pro-Islamic State website.

Egypt carried out air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in Libya on Feb.16 after the jihadists posted a video showing the decapitation of 21 Coptic Christians, the military said.
      

Tripoli, the capital of the regional unit of Arcadia – an ancient placement which is associated with pastoralism and harmony with nature – continues to be in turmoil due to a waste management problem and the Greek state’s failure to deal with it comprehensively .

Residents of Levidi, a small town on Mount Mainalo in the northern Peloponnese, have set up blockades at the local landfill to prevent trucks from dumping trash brought from the city of Tripoli.

Locals came out in force summoned by the bells of a local church and have set up 24-hour sentries at the entrance of the landfill.

Novinite.com is interviewing the ambassadors of EU member states, Bulgaria's main trading partners and neighbouring countries. Here we provide an interview with Spain's Ambassador to Bulgaria, H. E. Jose Luis Tapia.

At least eight people, including five foreigners, were killed when gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Tuesday, a local security official said.