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Al-Araby
Clashes erupted in Libya’s capital on Tuesday as the parliament-appointed prime minister, Fathi Bashagha, arrived to try to take control of the government from a rival administration that has refused to cede power. Bashagha’s effort to breaktwo months of stalemate between rival administrations risks plunging Libya back into prolonged fighting after two years of comparative peace, or returning it to territorial partition. The stalemate has already led to a partial blockade of Libya’s oil facilities, cutting its main source of foreign revenue by half. Diplomacy to resolve the crisis or lay the g…