TRIPOLI: The Libyan government said yesterday it will stop paying armed groups from the 2011 uprising unless they sign up to join the security forces by the end of the year. The government will “stop paying any premium or reward after” December 31, a deadline for the “dissolution of the armed groups and their integration into the army or the police”, said a statement. It called for former rebels who fought to topple Muammar Gaddafi’s regime to “resolve their situation” so they can be taken into account for the 2014 budget. When Gaddafi was overthrown and killed in October 2011, the rebels were hailed as heroes for bringing an end to more than four decades of dictatorship.
Iran prosecutor shot dead
DUBAI: Gunmen shot dead a public prosecutor and his driver in southeastern Iran yesterday, Iranian media said, less than two weeks after militants killed 14 Iranian border guards nearby and Tehran retaliated by hanging 16 prisoners. The killings, in the city of Zabol, near to where the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet, come at a time of heightened tension in the region as separatist Sunni Islamist militants step up attacks on officially Shia Iran. The gunmen shot dead Zabol public prosecutor Musa Nouri and his driver as he was on his way to work, Iranian news agencies said.
Bomber kills six
in Iraq attack
BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber ploughed an oil tanker packed with explosives into an Iraqi police station in a village north of Baquba yesterday, killing at least six policemen, police said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
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