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Apr. 14, 2014

Libya's interim Prime Min Abdullah al-Thinni says he will resign, becoming the second leader to step down from post in two months.MORE

Libyan rebels occupying four eastern oil ports agree with government to gradually end their eight-month-old petroleum blockade; agreement allows some ports to reopen immediately while others will resume functions within four weeks.MORE

Mike Morell, former Central Intelligence Agency deputy director, testifies before House Intelligence Committee that he was not pressured to edit the widely discredited talking points on the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attack in effort to protest Pres Obama and former Sec of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.MORE

United States Navy commandos seize renegade tanker carrying illicit Libyan oil in the Mediterranean southeast of Cyprus, thwarting a breakaway militias attempt to sell oil on the black market; operation saves Libya's fragile transitional government from a potentially catastrophic loss of control over its vast oil reserves.MORE

North Korea denies any responsibility for oil tanker that loaded crude from rebel-held port in Libya and eluded attempts to seize it; says while vessel carried North Korean flag it is linked to Egyptian company.MORE

Libyas transitional Parliament votes to remove Prime Min Ali Zeidan as his government concedes that it cannot stop a tanker from leaving with an illicit shipment of Libyan oil; ouster underscores danger of loss of control over countrys petroleum, lifeblood of its economy.MORE

Political killings continue to plague Libya in aftermath of 2011 revolution that ousted Col Muammar el-Qadaffi from power, with over 1,200 people killed nationwide in two years; political divisions within elected General National Congress have left it unstable and powerless to bring order.MORE

Oil experts wonder where Morning Glory, tanker that reportedly left port in Libya with cargo of highest quality oil in the world, went; transitional government officials say the tanker was seized, but militia group that controls the port says tanker sailed away.MORE

Militia group controlled by Ibrahim Jathran, which has blockaded Libyas main oil ports for more than six months, begins to sell oil for its own accounts even as Prime Min Ali Zeidan repeatedly threatens force; first unauthorized export of oil--lifeblood of Libya's government and economy--offers hint that its weak transitional government may be at risk of coming apart at the seams.MORE

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