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Wednesday's global agenda: Libya investigation slow to get under way
Your morning global affairs speed-read
Three weeks after the attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, the investigation remains in its initial stages with just a handful of suspects detained and the crime scenes minimally secured, The Washington Post reports.
And Reuters quotes Libya's deputy foreign minister, Mohammed Adbel Aziz, as saying that his country has yet to agree with the United States on how the U.S. investigative team will cooperate in the probe, with the country's prosecutor general having given only verbal approval for a joint investigation.
"We are getting ready for the FBI team to go to Benghazi and meet with our team and start joint investigations together and also visit the site," Adbel Aziz said Tuesday.
In other news:
The White House is widening its cover war in North Africa. [AP]
NATO extended Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s mandate for a fifth year, until July 31, 2014.
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