A car bomb has killed at least three people outside a
hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi, doctors say, in a
further sign of the growing disorder that threatens to
unhinge an already creaking transition to lawful, democratic
rule.
Bombs exploded outside two police stations in Libya's eastern
city of Benghazi and Britain temporarily cut staff at its
embassy in Tripoli because of security fears.
The head of Libya's parliament has survived an assassination
attempt unharmed at his home in the remote desert interior of
the country, his spokesman says.
Four policemen in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi were
killed when a police compound was attacked, a security
official said, in the latest violence to plague the cradle of
Libya's uprising.
Rival Libyan militias have fired guns and rocket-propelled
grenades at each other in Tripoli and set fire to a former
intelligence building in one of the worst breakdowns in
security in the capital since Muammar Gaddafi's fall.
Libya's General National Congress has approved new Prime
Minister Ali Zeidan's proposed government line-up but it cut
its session short as security forces fended off protesters
outside.
Libyan militiamen aligned to the Defence Ministry have
shelled the former Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid,
extending a feud between two towns that demonstrates the
country's deep divisions a year after the veteran leader was
killed.
Libya's national congress has dismissed the newly elected
prime minister in a vote of no confidence which underscored
the difficulties of forming a government which can unite the
country's different factions and regions.
Libya's newly appointed leader has apologised at the United
Nations for the crimes of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi and
told critics that supporting the Arab Spring was worth it.
A day after their once feared Islamist militia decided to
disband, a dozen die-hard fighters of the Abu Slim Brigade
screamed towards us in their cars and piled out, red-faced
with fury at the "infidels" come to witness their retreat.
