Human Rights Watch said Libya’s detention facilities were mired in abuses – including torture and intimidation – to extract confessions during Mas’ud’s years in Libyan prisons.

Source: https://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/national/23317976.human-rights-group-questions-lockerbie-suspects-extradition/?ref=rss

Human traffickers have benefited from the chaos in the country, smuggling migrants across Libya’s vast borders, bringing them to the coast and packing them into ill-equipped rubber boats and other vessels that then set off on risky sea voyages.

Source: https://1010wcsi.com/fox-world/libyan-coast-guard-boat-rams-into-migrant-dinghy-throwing-50-into-mediterranean/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=libyan-coast-guard-boat-rams-into-migrant-dinghy-throwing-50-into-mediterranean

Mr Cohen said they discussed the importance of preserving the heritage of Libya’s former Jewish community, including renovating synagogues and cemeteries.

Source: https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/national/23750895.libyas-foreign-minister-suspended-meeting-israeli-counterpart/?ref=rss

NEAR DERNA, Libya — Around a quarter of Libya’s eastern city of Derna was wiped out by floods after a dam burst in a storm, and more than 1,000 bodies have been recovered so far, a minister in the administration that controls the east said on Tuesday.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1830578/quarter-of-libyan-city-wiped-out-by-burst-dam-1000-bodies-recovered-so-far

Putin now appears to have settled for a policy of supporting the status quo, a situation that potentially leaves Libya’s oil exports hostage to Russia, which is feeling the squeeze from sanctions on its own crude sales.

Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/06/04/putin-gains-influence-in-oil-rich-libya-as-us-struggles-to-oust-wagner-group/

ROME/TRIPOLI — Italian energy company Eni and Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) signed an $8 billion gas production deal on Saturday aimed at boosting energy supplies to Europe despite the insecurity and political chaos in the North African country.

Source: https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/italys-eni-signs-8-bln-libya-gas-deal-as-pm-meloni-visits-tripoli

That prompted Libya’s east-based parliament to appoint a rival government after Dbeibah refused to step down.

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/business-news/2023/01/italys-premier-visits-libya-for-talks-on-energy-migration/

The House of Representatives of Libya’s rival government in the east also slammed the meeting as a “legal and moral crime.”

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/world-news/2023/08/libyas-foreign-minister-suspended-after-meeting-with-israels-chief-diplomat/