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Armed Men Storm Libyan Parliament, Halt Formation Of New Government

LE MONDE (France), ANSA, MISNA (Italy)

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TRIPOLI - Some 100 armed men stormed Libya’s parliament late Tuesday, preventing the confirmation of 30 cabinet members for the new government of prime minister Ali Zeidan, Italian news agency ANSA reported.

Fighters have invaded parliament several times before, each time bringing proceedings to a halt. “This has grave consequences for Libyan democracy,” said Mohamed Mogarief, the president of the assembly, according to ANSA.

The armed men were stopped by security forces after a dozen had entered the hall with guns, but Mogarief ordered parliament to close, saying, “This is a way of exercising psychological pressure….All Libyans and the whole world need to see what conditions we work in. The situation is out of control.”

The armed men had paused before a television crew to be filmed, Le Mondereported.

Libya’s stability is important to the world, says an Italian oil executive interviewed by Italian Catholic news site Misna. The nation has the largest amount of crude oil reserves in Africa, and oil production reached its pre-war levels last May. “A stable government, a clear transition time frame, increased security at the national level and effective control of the territory” will all be necessary before Libya can recover, the executive said.

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Why Every New Parent Should Travel Alone Without Their Children

Argentine journalist Ignacio Pereyra travels to Italy alone to do some paperwork as his family stays behind. While he walks alone around Rome, he experiences mixed feelings: freedom, homesickness and nostalgia, and wonders what leads people to desire larger families.

Photo of a man sitting donw with his luggage at Athens' airport

Alone at Athens' international airport

Ignacio Pereyra

I realize it in the morning before leaving: I feel a certain level of excitement about traveling. It feels like enthusiasm, although it is confusing. I will go from Athens to Naples to see if I can finish the process for my Italian citizenship, which I started five years ago.

I started the process shortly after we left Buenos Aires, when my partner Irene and I had been married for two years and the idea of having children was on the vague but near horizon.

Now there are four of us and we have been living in Greece for more than two years. We arrived here in the middle of the pandemic, which left a mark on our lives, as in the lives of most of the people I know.

But now it is Sunday morning. I tell Lorenzo, my four-year-old son, that I am leaving for a few days: “No, no, Dad. You can’t go. Otherwise I’ll throw you into the sea.”

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