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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2019
Benghazi port bustling again despite Libya's divisions and violence
The commercial port in Libya's second city Benghazi is working round the clock three years after reopening, attempting to raise revenues for its restoration and expansion.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2018
Libyan widows train as seamstresses to earn living in war-torn Benghazi
Dozens of widowed and divorced Libyan women are learning to eke out a living in the war-scarred port city of Benghazi by making clothes, with the help of a local charity.
WORLD
Jan 24, 2018
At least 22 killed as car bomb explodes at Benghazi mosque, another goes off after responders arrive
A double car bombing in the east Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday left at least 22 people dead and 30 wounded, including senior security figures, according to officials and a Reuters witness.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 11, 2017
CIA agent tells jury about day 'all hell broke loose' in Benghazi
A CIA operative told a jury on Tuesday about the terror he experienced in 2012 when militants attacked the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and described how he recovered the body of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 6, 2017
Libya's eastern commander declares victory in battle against Islamists for Benghazi
Libya's eastern commander, Khalifa Hifter, said on Wednesday his forces had taken full control of Libya's second city Benghazi from rival armed groups after a three-year campaign.
WORLD
Dec 19, 2016
Islamic State claims Benghazi suicide bombing deadly to at least seven
At least seven people were killed and eight wounded when a suicide bomber targeted forces loyal to Libya's eastern government in Benghazi on Sunday, medical and security officials said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 28, 2015
Trump chides Rubio-endorsing Republican panel chief's Benghazi probe debacle
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump assailed a leading committee chairman in Congress on Sunday for backing Marco Rubio, Trump's rival for the party's nomination.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 19, 2015
GOP head of Benghazi probe claims Clinton not being targeted, hits Republicans for saying otherwise
The Republican head of the congressional investigation into the Benghazi attack said on Sunday he is not targeting Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and such talk hurts the inquiry.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 11, 2015
Ex-State Department aide to Clinton takes Fifth in 'political theater' inquest; another set to appear
A former State Department staffer who helped set up the email server in former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's home formally asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination Thursday rather than answer questions before a Republican-led House committee.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 4, 2015
Lawyer says ex-Clinton aide will invoke Fifth Amendment, won't testify in Republiican-led House probe
A former U.S. State Department information technology staffer who worked for Hillary Rodham Clinton is refusing to testify before U.S. lawmakers probing the former top diplomat and the 2012 attacks on U.S. installations in Benghazi, Libya, according to a letter sent by his lawyer to congressional investigators....
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 15, 2015
Firefights among Islamic State, rival groups claim 42 in Libya
At least 42 people have been killed in clashes between Islamic State, a rival Islamist group and forces loyal to the official government in two Libyan cities, residents and medics said on Friday.
WORLD
Jul 20, 2015
Libyan regime claims its warplanes sank ship carrying arms, attacked another near Benghazi
Libyan warplanes on Sunday sank one ship and attacked a second vessel near the eastern city of Benghazi, military spokesmen for the country's internationally recognized government said on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 20, 2015
Judge: Clinton's State Department emails must be released on rolling basis
Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department emails must be made public on a rolling basis instead of waiting for a mass release in January, a federal judge ruled, rejecting a government proposal for releasing about 55,000 pages of the correspondence early next year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
May 19, 2015
U.S. court: YouTube can show 'Innocence of Muslims' film despite complaint by actress, outrage
Google Inc. should not have to remove an anti-Islamic film from its YouTube website because a woman complained that she was duped into performing in the film that depicted the Prophet Muhammad as a pedophile, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 5, 2015
U.S. House committee subpoenas Clinton emails on Benghazi
A congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack on a U.S. Consulate in Libya issued subpoenas on Wednesday for former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's personal emails, which have created a political storm for the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 28, 2014
More than 50 killed in latest Benghazi, Tripoli clashes
At least 36 people were killed in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, many of them civilian, where Libyan Special Forces and Islamist militants clashed on Saturday night and Sunday morning, medical and security sources said.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2013
White House has Susan Rice where it wants her
Susan Rice's appointment to be the next U.S. national security adviser is payback for her loyalty to Barack Obama and a thumb in the eyes of her Senate critics.
COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2013
Five myths about Benghazi
The events surrounding the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, look dramatically different depending on your politics. Republicans tend to see a cover-up and a scandal. Democrats see an attempt to damage President Barack Obama and...
Japan Times
WORLD
May 8, 2013
Jets 'held back amid Benghazi attacks'
As the weakly protected U.S. diplomatic compound in eastern Libya came under attack the night of Sept. 11, 2012, the deputy head of the embassy in Tripoli sought in vain to get the Pentagon to scramble fighter jets over Benghazi in a show of force that might have averted a second attack on a nearby CIA...

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