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Libya: HNEC starts registering candidacies for municipal elections next Sunday

The first round of applications for candidates in the local council elections is set to begin on Sunday August 18, according to a statement released by the High National Elections Commission (HNEC). The Commission urged voters to present their identity documents at polling places in order to obtain their electoral cards if they had submitted […]

French criminal court sentences former Liberian rebel commander to 30 years in jail

A French criminal court has handed former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara a 30-year prison sentence for violence against civilians and complicity in crimes against humanity between 1993 and 1994 during Liberia’s first civil war. The 49-year-old had been sentenced to life in prison during a first trial in Paris in 2022. In the appeals […]

U.S. Jury awards Moroccan woman $3.25 Mln in compensation for medical error

Fatima Belhak, a U.S. citizen of Moroccan descent, has been awarded $3.25 million in a compensation lawsuit for a botched episiotomy when giving birth in 2014. She told The Quad-City Times that the verdict is an acknowledgment of the suffering she will deal with for the rest of her life and an injury that could […]