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The corpses have been shipped to Misrata, a city further to the west whose forces led the fight to defeat Islamic State in Sirte in December.

A general view shows destruction in Sirte's Al-Giza Al-Bahriya district on 20 December 2016 after they drove the Islamic State (IS) group out of its Libyan stronghold. Picture: AFP.

MISRATA - Seven months after Libyan forces defeated Islamic State in the coastal city of Sirte, hundreds of bodies of foreign militants still lie stored in freezers as authorities negotiate with other governments to decide what to do with them, local officials say.

The corpses have been shipped to Misrata, a city further to the west whose forces led the fight to defeat Islamic State in Sirte in December.

Allowing the bodies to be shipped home to countries such as Tunisia, Sudan and Egypt would be sensitive for the governments involved, wary of acknowledging how many of their citizens left to fight as jihadists in Iraq, Syria and Libya.

"Our team removed hundreds of bodies," a member of the Misrata organised crime unit dealing with the bodies told Reuters, his face masked to conceal his identity because of security concerns.

"This is the main operation which allows us to preserve the bodies, document and photograph them and also collect DNA samples."

The crime unit said it was awaiting a decision from the Prosecutor General, who was in talks with foreign governments over the return of the bodies.

Islamic State has now been defeated in its main stronghold in the Iraqi city of Mosul and is under pressure in its base in the Syrian city of Raqqa. But at the height of its territorial control it attracted recruits from the Middle East, North Africa and Europe to its ranks.

In Tunisia alone, officials say more than 3,000 citizens left to fight in Syria, Iraq and Libya. Tunisians who trained in militant camps in Libya carried out two gun attacks on foreign tourists in 2015 that battered Tunisia's vital tourism industry.

Islamic State took over Sirte in 2015, taking advantage of infighting between rival Libyan armed factions and using the city as a base from which to attack oil fields and other nearby towns.

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The Libyan Beach Volleyball Championship concluded Libya tournament on Friday in the coastal city of Zuwara, west of the capital Tripoli. The tournament that took off on Thursday was organized and sponsored by Aljazeera Sport's Club and under the auspices of the Libyan General Beach Ball Union. 13 teams from Zuwarah, Tripoli, Sabha, Zliten and Misrata participated the first phase of the tournament with the system of point collecting, awaiting the second phase that will takeplace in Benghazi in the coming period, while the final phase will be held in Misrata.

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The "Tripoli Movement" organized a protest in the Algeria square in central Tripoli on Saturday to denounce the aggression of Zionists on the occupied holy city of Al-Quds in Palestine. The protesters held banners condemning the repeated attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque. They also declared their solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of the brutal occupation and the Zionist assault on the holy mosque.

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Dignity Operation air force conducted Sunday fresh airstrikes on Derna for the third consecutive day, leaving material damage to civilians houses but no casualties.

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has mobilized forces in Sirte and is preparing to repel a large scale and imminent attack from ISIS militants, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Brigadier General Mohammed Al-Ghosari, has declared.

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The management of Tobruk Water Desalination Plant said in a statement on Saturday that the of the operating materials needed to keep it active, in addition to the growing age of the plant that has gone nearly 17 years without carrying out any large-scale refurbishment.

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The National Oil Corporation announced the successful export of its third shipment from the floating oil terminal of Gaza in the offshore Bori oil field. The terminal was operated during the first quarter of this year, according to the company's page on Facebook, which added that the export operation was carried out by Libyan crews without any presence of foreign engineers as in the previous two oil exports.

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The Etihad Handball Team is continuing its ongoing external training camp in Tunisia in preparation for the final match of the 2016-2017 Libyan League to be held in Gharyan later this month. The 10-day training in Sousse has seen most players selected to play in the squad this season under the supervision of Libyan coach Abdel Salam al-Ahmar.

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A meeting of the reconciliation committee between Zintan and Mashashiya was held on Saturday in the Municipality of Hawamad in the Nafusa Mountain. The meeting was attended by members of reconciliation committees from different cities and regions, in the hope to keep track of reconciliation progress and to form further sub-committees to deal with the problems and security breaches that occur from time to time in the region.

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Al-Kufra security forces have arrested 60 illegal immigrants trying to infiltrate into the city and cross the sand barrier to the north of Kufra at the tri-border crossing with Egypt and Sudan. The border areas adjacent to Kufra are a transit point hotbed for smuggling and illegal immigration to and from Libya via a three-way border which extends for hundreds of kilometers.

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Activist Shere Dore speaks at a press conference, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Houston. Black Lives Matter activists are calling for a formal apology from Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman and District Attorney Devon Anderson for the comments they made regarding the Black Lives Matter movement after the death of Deputy Darron Goforth.

Activist Shere Dore speaks at a press conference, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Houston. Black Lives Matter activists are calling for a formal apology from Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman and District Attorney

Shere Dore was taken in on a warrant while on her way to the courthouse.

Shere Dore was taken in on a warrant while on her way to the courthouse.

Black Lives Matter activist accused of punching police horse returns to court

A Black Lives Matter activist accused of punching a police horse is free on $20,000 bail after spending two weeks in jail because she was arrested on her way to court.

Shere Dore, 41, appeared Thursday in state District Judge Jim Wallace's court after making bail late Tuesday.

Dore was a passenger in a car pulled over for an expired inspection sticker in her Fort Bend County neighborhood on July 6. She was on her way to a routine court hearing in downtown Houston.

She was arrested for a warrant because of an old speeding ticket and was able to pay the fine and fees within days.

However, because she missed court, she was held in the Harris County jail without bail until a judge could rule on whether she could have another bail.

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Defendants in Harris County who are arrested while free on bail are generally denied a second chance at bail.

Her attorney, Brian Harrison, said a judge set her bail and she was released Tuesday evening. Dore did not speak in court or after her appearance Thursday.

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Grant Stinchfield, who is a host at the NRAs online television network has made some questionable comments about Black Lives Matter activists and how they stoke racial hatred against white people.

He began a segment of his show by talking about how race relations are strained here in America after eight years of Barack Obama, though he is quick to point out they are nowhere near as bad as it is in South Africa where white families are being tortured and killed almost every day in racist violence.

His guest, however, pulled no punches. Chuck Holton warned those watching to be vigilant because BLM activists will work people up to the point that they lash out at white families in the US.

Right,you know the parallels between whats happening in South Africa and the blatant racism and violence were seeing from people like the Black Lives Matter crowd, he stated. If we continue to let this get out of control, to go down this path ofthis racial tension, this racial hatred that is being forced on the American culture by the Black Lives Matter crowd.

Gloria Steinem says Black women taught her feminism, praises Black LivesMatter

This has to stop, and if you want to see why it has to stop, you look at South Africa, he went on. Over between three and four thousand white South Africanshave been killed in the most horrific ways, brutalized, raped, tortured, drug behind cars, had drills takento them.Some really horrific things.

They arent the only two NRA hosts to go all in on Black Lives Matter. Coloin Noir blasted the group as well as liberal Democrats who were upset with a recent NRA video in which TheBlazes Dana Loesch starred.

Noir claims that with the latest BLM ad attacking the NRA and Loesch, Black Lives Matter has become a weaponized race-baiting machine, pushing the extreme liberal Democratic agenda, calling any and everything that doesnt fit that agenda white supremacy.

He also took issue with many peoples assertion that Loeschs ad was the equivalent of the NRA declaring war against black people. He said he had a hard time seeing where this NRA ad called for violence against anyone, much less against black people. If anything, the video was calling for fighting violence with truth. Hell, I saw more white people looting and being destructive in the NRA ad than I ever saw watching a Black Lives Matter protest on liberal cable news shows like CNN.

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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards told Arkansas Democrats in Little Rock on Saturday night that there's an opportunity for them to flip seats in 2018 -- pointing to his own election in a deeply red state nearly two years ago.

The governor from Arkansas' southern neighbor was the keynote speaker for the Arkansas Democrats' annual fundraiser, which for the first time was called the Clinton Dinner.

The self-described "pro-life, pro-Second Amendment" Democrat reflected throughout his speech on the similarities between the two states, which have seen decades of strong Democratic support wither.

Democrats' ranks in the Arkansas Legislature are at the lowest point since Reconstruction, and they control no constitutional or federal offices.

"I suspect they invited me here because I won the governor's race a little less than two years ago in Louisiana, a state that doesn't look terribly different than Arkansas," Edwards said in an interview earlier Saturday.

In his speech, Edwards said his path to the governor's mansion could serve as a road map for Arkansas Democrats.

And he said Democrats' fortunes in both states lie at the center of the aisle and with independents.

"We cannot hang out at the far left of the political spectrum, because you cannot seize what is available to us from there," Edwards said.

Both states have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Edwards said support for the expansion should be a "huge" talking point for Democrats in 2018, as Republicans in Washington struggle to repeal and replace the law.

He also said diversity is key to the party. On the local and national level, Edwards said, the party can't afford to shun people who "don't stand with 100 percent of the party platform."

It was a possible reference to Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, who earlier this year said support for the party's position favoring abortion rights is "not negotiable."

The dinner was the first headed by new state Democratic Party Chairman Michael John Gray, who is also a state representative from Augusta.

Like Edwards, Gray served as House minority leader. The two met in Philadelphia last year at the Democratic National Convention.

The Saturday night dinner at the Statehouse Convention Center raised at least $100,000 for the party, according to spokesman Jessica DeLoach, though a final tally was not yet available.

Including a dinner of shrimp and grits, chicken jambalaya, Nashville hot chicken and pork belly with baked beans, tickets for the event cost $100.

About 800 people were in attendance, according to the party.

Earlier in the day, at a meeting of the Democrats' State Committee, House Minority Leader Rep. David Whitaker, D- Fayetteville, laid out a "bold, aggressive agenda," that he said will be the basis for 2018 campaigns.

The platform, according to Whitaker, includes opposing any legislation that would reduce health care coverage in Arkansas and supporting expanded pre-kindergarten programs, criminal justice issues and parole overhauls.

At the earlier meeting, Whitaker called on Democrats to recruit candidates or consider running for office themselves.

As of Saturday, no Democrat had announced plans to challenge Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson next year -- a point alluded to by Edwards.

"Somebody in this room, it's time to go big or go home," he said.

Hutchinson, while critical of the Affordable Care Act, has also held back from supporting the U.S. Senate's replacement plan.

At a meeting of the National Governors Association this month in Rhode Island, Edwards said a talk about President Donald Trump's health care policy from Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price received a dull reception from the governors.

"There was nobody in that room excited about what he was saying," Edwards said.

The new Clinton moniker for this year's dinner was adopted after Democrats held the last Jefferson-Jackson Dinner last year, with former President Bill Clinton serving as the keynote speaker.

The previous name was dropped due to its association with two slave-holding presidents.

Clinton said in a pre-recorded video played at Saturday's dinner that he also has hope for the party in a state where once served as governor.

"I'm old enough to remember battles that looked even longer," Clinton said.

Republicans will have their own annual fundraiser, the Reagan-Rockefeller Dinner, at the Little Rock Marriott next weekend.

The keynote speaker for that event is Fox News host Jeanine Pirro.

Metro on 07/23/2017

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