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              Libyan Parliament Rejects UN-backed Unity Government

   by VOA News

   Members of Libya's internationally recognized parliament have rejected
   a U.N.-sponsored unity government and an agreement with rival
   authorities aimed at ending the chaos that has engulfed the country
   since the overthrow of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.

   The Associated Press quotes Libyan House of Representatives member Essa
   al-Areibi as saying that 90 out of 140 members attending Monday's
   session rejected the unity Cabinet. In a separate vote, 84 lawmakers
   rejected the political agreement.

   The U.N.-mediated peace deal, signed last month, called for a new unity
   government with members from both the internationally-recognized
   government in Tobruk and the Islamist-backed body in Tripoli.

   The pact came out of multiple rounds of negotiations between the rival
   governments.

   The proposed deal also came as Islamic State militants gain new
   footholds in Libya, in an attempt to take control of the country's oil
   fields and terminals, the nation's key source of wealth.
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