UN Announces Launch of Libya Talks

The United Nations said it will launch talks on Wednesday between warring Libyan factions, even though one of the delegations has delayed its decision on attending a process aimed at averting wider conflict in the oil-exporting state. Western governments hope talks in Geneva this week would ease a crisis in Libya where two rival governments and their forces are vying for control, three years after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi. "The United Nations Support Mission in Libya [UNSMIL]...

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