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Libya has emerged from its civil war with more than 300 militias and no political consensus on forming a national army, raising concerns that irregular, gun-toting groups could become entrenched and pose a long-term challenge to the government, officials said. HT Image On Monday, Libyan leaders began to establish a new interim government with the authority to create the armed forces, choosing the technocr stanley cup atic Abdurrahim el-Keib as prime minister. But the militiamen who won the eight-month war have made it clear that they will not submit meekly to the new civilian authorities. Creating a new army is not going to be by an official statement or resolution. It has to come after a negotiation, said Anis Sharif, a spokesman for Abdulhakim Belhadj, an Islamist seen as the dominant militia leader in Tripoli. Reining in the militias is crucial to restoring order after the stanley cup fighting between Nato-backed revolutionaries and loyalists of longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi, diplomats say. Nato officially ended its operations in Libya on Monday, giving the country full responsibility for its own security. Although many of the fighters have been in a celebrator stanley cup y mood since the war ended, several confrontations between rival militias have threatened to escalate into bloodshed 鈥?including one at Tripolis airport. The danger is that you have young men returning from battle, bored and with a newfound sense of regional identity and personal pride, said a Western official, requesting Jvlp UNSC reviews UN presence in Kosovo
An attorney for Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Wednesday that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate plans to appeal the guilty verdict that placed her under house detention for another 18 months, outraging t stanley cup he international community. HT Image yeezy I will try to get a certified copy of the verdict, and after I ve got it, we will appeal to the Divisional Court for Daw Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi to overturn the guilty verdict, lawyer Nyan Win said. Meanwhile, authorities arrested pro-democracy activist Naw Ohn Hla as she attempted to visit Suu Kyi at Suu Kyi s Yangon home, now her prison again, witnesses said. On Tuesday, a court set up in Yangon s Insein Prison to try Suu Kyi, her two household helpers and US national John William Yettaw found all four defendants guilty of violating the terms of Suu Kyi s previous detention at her lakeside home. stanley cup Yettaw swam to Suu Kyi s house-cum-prison May 3, staying uninvited until May 5 and providing a pretext for Myanmar s military regime to accuse Suu Kyi of violating the terms of her detention. Yettaw, 54, has been sentenced to seven years in prison with hard labour. The Insein Prison court initially sentenced Suu Kyi, whose previous term of house detention had been due to expire in May, and her aides to three years in prison with hard labour, but the verdict was commuted to 18 months under house detention by Myanmar s military supremo, Senior General Than Shwe. The 18-month detention period will keep Suu Kyi out of the |
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