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Libya's GNA soldiers find potential weapons of mass destruction in Tarhuna, the city recaptured from warlord Haftar.

Türgi välisminister teatas selle peale, et pole "objektiivne" ainult ühele osapoolele relvade tarnimist takistada, embargo või mitte.

In an escalation, Egyptian president Sisi says Cairo is now prepared to intervene directly in Libya. He says an Egyptian intervention has become legal under international law to protect its borders, secure Libya & protect civilians there

Sources claim that Russian mercenaries attacked the GNA-controlled Sharara oil field.

Whodunit? mystery in #Libya: "unknown aircraft" carried out strikes on behalf of Haftar's LNA against a UN-recognised GNA government airbase eyed for development as a Turkish airbase. Were the LNA jets Russian, Egyptian or even French?

Ankara-aligned outlets report that non-Libyan fighter jets carried out an air raid on #Wattiyah airbase in the wee hours this morning.

Many pro-Ankara voices called it fake news. But their own state media now recognize something did happen.

An air-defense device was destroyed.

Türgi info:Reliable UMH sources report that the UAE Mirage 2000-9 fighter plane that hit the Wattya airbase.
Prantsuse info:Reliable sources in GNA report that the United Arab Emirates Mirage 2000-9 is the fighter that struck Wattya Air Force Base.

Apparently, Turkish sources now claim that "unidentified" jets (possibly UAE Mirages, flown from Egypt) did target the Al-Watiya airbase and take out a (Turkish) air defence system.

It was early 2018 when Jan Marsalek, the young chief operating officer of German fintech champion Wirecard, held a meeting in his palatial home in Munich to talk about a new special project he was interested in: recruiting 15,000 Libyan militiamen. 

Mr Marsalek has now vanished in the wake of Wirecard’s implosion. An international warrant has been issued for his arrest. German prosecutors regard him as one of the key suspects in a vast fraud that for years inflated the payment company’s balance sheet and profits and helped propel it into the prestigious Dax 30 index.

But as documents and testimony from first-hand witnesses reveal, Mr Marsalek’s interests went far beyond unorthodox accounting.

The 40-year-old Austrian has led multiple lives, with complicated and overlapping commercial and political interests. Sometimes those interests cleaved to Wirecard’s aggressive expansion plans in frontier markets. Sometimes they coincided with Mr Marsalek’s own sprawling and unusual range of personal investments. And sometimes they seemed to fit neatly with the work of Russia’s intelligence agencies. 

Cavusoglu said on Monday that Turkey would start seismic research and drilling operations for natural resources in the part of the eastern Mediterranean covered by the agreement. He did not provide a timeframe.

He added that Turkey was open to sharing with companies from third countries such Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States and Russia.

The cash stash found on the Mediterranean island of Malta was en route from the printing works in Moscow to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces in eastern Libya.

The internationally-recognised government in Tripoli says the money is counterfeit.

On Friday the Vitol tanker Kriti Bastion docked and loaded at Es Sider port before sailing on Saturday, the first legal export of Libyan oil since the blockade was imposed in January.

The NOC said Russian and Syrian mercenaries fighting alongside the LNA now occupied Es Sider.

Under international agreements, only NOC can produce and export oil and revenues must flow into the Central Bank of Libya. Both those institutions are based in Tripoli, the seat of the GNA.