Haftar meets with Putin as Russia eyes strategic expansion in Libya
Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) that controls eastern Libya, recently held talks with Russian President Vladimir
Tunisia's parliament approved a law on Friday that strips a top court of its power to rule on election-related disputes, a move decried by protesters as anti-democratic just days before a presidential ballot. The judicial shift comes after Tunisia's administrative court in August
overturned decisions barring three presidential hopefuls from running in the October 6 election – a ruling later ignored by the country's electoral board, ISIE.
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