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BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met on Monday with Egypt's Ambassador to Serbia Menha Mahrous Bakhoum and condemned the attacks on Egyptian citizens in Libya, while the ambassador stressed the support of Egypt for Serbia's moderate and responsible policy.

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.

A stampede at a Cairo stadium earlier this month, much like a politically-loaded football brawl in the Suez Canal city of Port Said three years ago, is shining a spotlight on Egypt's unreformed, unabashedly violent, and politically powerful police and security forces amid confusion over what precisely happened and how many fans died.

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.
      

At least 25 people were killed and 30 wounded Feb. 20 in a triple bombing in an eastern Libyan town near the jihadist stronghold of Derna, medical and security sources said.
      
The simultaneous attacks targeted police headquarters in Al-Qoba, as well as the home of the speaker of Libya's internationally recognised parliament and a petrol station, the sources said.

Libya asked the Council of the United Nations Security to lift the arms embargo so they can reorganize their army, in order to be able to deal with jihadists of the Islamic State and other extremist groups.

At a time when Jihadists are burning and beheading people, or cutting off women’s hands off because they used cellphones, the nightmare of a new round of mass executions surfaced after 35 Egyptian Coptic farmers were kidnapped in Libya in retribution for Egypt’s air raids.

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

President Klaus Iohannis has labeled the beheading by IS-affiliated terrorists of Egyptian Christians in Libya as an act of unspeakable cruelty and barbarity, pointing out that these atrocities show there is urgent need of a political solution to this conflict in this country, and also to show zero tolerance towards such terrorist groups.

The Greek foreign ministry condemned on Monday the coldblooded execution of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya by Islamic State militants.