Arount The World Tripoli Libya Americans evacuated Tripoli, Libya Americans evacuated: With a civil war threatening in Libya, the U.S. State Department has urged Americans to leave the country immediately. The Pentagon said it was sending a warship with 1,000 Marines to the region for a possible evacuation of U.S. diplomatic officials. The turmoil began last month, when renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar launched a bloody assault against Islamist militias in Benghazi and then attacked the parliament in the capital, Tripoli. Last week, the parliament approved an Islamist-backed government and called for new elections, and now Libya’s many armed militias have begun aligning themselves with either the government or Haftar. Tuxtla Guti?rrez, Mexico Subcomandante Marcos quits, maybe: The leader of the Zapatistas, a rebel movement working for indigenous rights in Chiapas state for the past 20 years, stepped down this week in a vaguely worded statement. “I declare that Subcomandante Marcos ce...
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