Elected Parliament Drops Out of UN's Libya Talks

Libya's internationally recognized parliament on Tuesday dropped out of U.N.-brokered talks aimed at stemming the country's collapse, protesting a plan that would mean sharing power with its rivals. The wrangling over the U.N. draft plan came as militants from the North African nation's Islamic State affiliate seized new territory, inching closer to a major city and oil terminals, virtually Libya's sole source of state revenues. The threat of the Islamic State group,...

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