Whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks declared on Wednesday that the United States had effectively given groups an opening to attack its embassies by supporting the siege of its founder Julian Assange.

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Protesters in Egypt and Libya attacked U.S. diplomatic missions on Tuesday, leading to the death of an American staffer at the consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi after fierce clashes at the compound, a Libyan official said.

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US President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned the killing of four Americans, including the US ambassador, in an attack on his country's consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi.

More than 100 tanks were seized from a militia loyal to Libya's ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi as authorities hunted the perpetrators of a double car bombing, the interior ministry said on Thursday.

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Twin car bomb blasts killed two people in the Libyan capital at dawn on Sunday on the first day of the Muslim Eid-ul-Fitr holiday and officials blamed loyalists of now slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

Libya's national assembly picked former opposition leader Mohammad Yousuf Maqrif as its president as the North African country's newly elected congress began its rule.

Libya's National Transitional Council on Wednesday handed power to a new assembly in a symbolic move marking a peaceful transition following the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi's 40-year dictatorship.

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A bomb blast shook the department of military intelligence in the eastern city of Benghazi on early Wednesday, causing material damage to the building, Libyan security sources said.

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Libya's first nationwide elections in nearly five decades brought hints on Sunday of an Arab Spring precedent: Western-leaning parties making strides over Islamist rivals hoping to follow the same pat