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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 23 april 2019

Libyan force slows Tripoli push over concerns for civilians

By BOUAZZA BIN BOUAZZA Ghassan Salame, said month's fighting climbed to
SAMY MAGDY Monday that "divisions that 264, including combatants
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A self- prevail in the international and civilians, the World
styled Libyan army slowed community over the Libyan Health Organization said
down its push on the coun- problem" are impeding ef- Monday. It said 1,266 peo-
try's capital over concerns forts to impose a cease-fire. ple had been wounded.
for civilians caught up in He spoke at a press confer- Since launching his push,
the violence, as the U.N. ence following a meeting which many see as a pow-
refugee agency said Mon- in Tunisia with the country's er grab for Tripoli, Hifter's
day that the fighting for minister of foreign affairs. forces have captured the
Tripoli has displaced more Hifter has received aid from districts of Gharyan and
than 32,000 people. the United Arab Emirates, Qasr Bani Ghashir along
Fighting erupted on April 5, Egypt, Russia and France. with several smaller towns.
pitting the self-styled Libyan On Friday, President Donald They also seized the capi-
National Army, led by com- Abdelhadi al-Houij, Haftar's Minister of Foreign Affairs, speaks Trump spoke with the Liby- tal's shuttered old airport.
mander Khalifa Hifter and during an interview with The Associated Press, Sunday, April 21, an commander by phone. Fighting is now underway
aligned with a rival govern- 2019, in Tunis, Tunisia. A White House statement for control of Ain Zara and
ment in the east, against Associated Press said "the two discussed a Azizyia, two larger towns
militias affiliated with Tripo- shared vision for Libya's near Tripoli, and in the Abu
li's U.N.-supported govern- nite a new civil war in Libya killed longtime dictator transition to a stable, dem- Salim district, about 7 kilo-
ment. on the scale of the 2011 Moammar Gadhafi. ocratic political system." meters (4 miles) from Tripo-
The clashes threaten to ig- uprising that toppled and The U.N. envoy for Libya, The death toll from this li's center.q

Cyprus lake, mineshaft searched for bodies after 2 found

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS found April 20; the victim's tody, the official said. The
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — identity has not been con- official spoke to The Asso-
Police investigators in Cy- firmed yet, authorities said. ciated Press on condition
prus searched a flooded A 35-year-old Cypriot mili- of anonymity because he
mineshaft and a lake Mon- tary officer is in custody was not authorized to pub-
day in their investigation of and faces charges of pre- licly disclose details of the
the killings of two women meditated murder and case
and the disappearance of kidnapping with intent to The state-run Cyprus News
the 6-year-old daughter of commit premeditated mur- Agency reported that in-
one of the victims. der. A law enforcement of- vestigators said at a court
The bodies of two women ficial said that during ques- hearing that the man in
were found in the aban- tioning the officer admitted custody told investigators
doned mineshaft six days killing the women. he met the second victim
apart. The first, discovered The searches of the mine- online and strangled her
April 14, was the mother of shaft and the lake were for after they had sex.
the missing child, a 38-year- the missing girl, but inves- The search of the mineshaft A Cypriot police officer, left, stands near the flooded mineshaft
old Filipino woman, police tigators had not ruled out will resume once inspec- where two female bodies were found, outside of Mitsero village,
said. there being more possible tors make sure it is safe for near the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, April 22, 2019.
The second body was victims of the man in cus- crews to enter, he said.q Associated Press