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            Libya PM to Reshuffle Cabinet to Face 'Urgent Situation'

   by Reuters

   Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said on Saturday he would reshuffle
   his cabinet after protesters stormed the offices of the Muslim
   Brotherhood and a liberal political party to denounce the killing of a
   prominent critic of the Brotherhood.

   "We are about to make a cabinet reshuffle and decrease the number of
   ministries to ensure a better performance to face the urgent
   situation,'' Zeidan told a news conference.

   Hundreds of Libyans took to the streets overnight to denounce the
   killing of political activist Abdelsalam al-Mosmary in Benghazi on
   Friday. The demonstrations later turned violent.

   On Saturday protesters attacked the Benghazi and Tripoli offices of the
   Muslim Brotherhood's political party and the headquarters of a liberal
   political coalition in the capital.

   Mosmary, one of the first activists to take to the streets in Libya's
   February 2011 uprising, was an outspoken opponent of the Brotherhood,
   whose Islamist political wing is the second biggest party in Libya's
   General National Congress (GNC). Two military officials were also
   killed in Benghazi on Friday.

   Libya's government is struggling to assert its authority over armed
   groups that helped topple veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, part
   of the wave of Arab Spring uprisings that also felled autocrats in
   Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen.
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