{"id":410818,"date":"2022-02-10T08:20:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T08:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=410818"},"modified":"2022-02-10T08:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T08:21:42","slug":"libyas-prime-minister-survives-assassination-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/libyas-prime-minister-survives-assassination-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya&#8217;s prime minister survives assassination bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tripoli (SONNA): Libya\u2019s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh escaped unharmed from an assassination attempt in the capital Tripoli, local media reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cbarrage of bullets\u201d was fired at Dbeibeh\u2019s car early on Thursday, Libya Al-Ahrar TV news channel quoted a government source as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The premier was not injured in the attack, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The assassination attempt comes amid an ongoing tussle for power in Libya as Dbeibeh, who has been heading Libya\u2019s UN-backed government since last March, faces a bid by parliament to replace him.<\/p>\n<p>The Tobruk-based House of Representatives is scheduled to convene on Thursday to elect a new prime minister, a development that would deal a major blow to efforts to years of chaos in the oil-rich nation.<\/p>\n<p>However, Dbeibeh vowed on Wednesday that his government will keep working to ensure that Libya does not go through a \u201cnew transitional phase,\u201d and will not allow the \u201cdominant political class of the past to continue in the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Anadolu Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tripoli (SONNA): Libya\u2019s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh escaped unharmed from an assassination attempt in the capital Tripoli, local media reported on Thursday. A \u201cbarrage of bullets\u201d was fired at Dbeibeh\u2019s car early on Thursday, Libya Al-Ahrar TV news channel quoted a government source as saying. The premier was not injured in the attack, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-410818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410824,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410818\/revisions\/410824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}