TRIPOLI, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The Libyan government announced on Sunday that a 10-year ban on Libyan civil flights over Italian airspace has been lifted.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has conveyed the decision to her Libyan counterpart Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah, the Libyan government said in a statement.

The decision marks a significant improvement in relations between Italy and Libya and is expected to have a positive impact on air travel and aviation cooperation between the two Mediterranean countries, analysts said.

STOCKHOLM, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Swedish court has jailed a Kurdish man for four-and-a-half years for crimes including attempting to finance terrorism.

It is the first time Sweden’s updated terror laws have been used in a case involving the Kurdish militant PKK.

Turkiye has long called on Stockholm to crack down on Kurdish separatists.

Sweden’s bid to join Nato has been delayed principally by Turkiye’s demand that it extradites dozens of people it views as terrorists.

06 July 2023; MEMO: Kuwait aims to invest over $300 billion in the energy sector by 2040, the Gulf states' oil minister told the UAE's WAM news agency.

Global investment in the energy sector faces significant gaps that need to be filled to prevent crises that could adversely affect the markets and the global economy, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Oil and Minister of State for Economic and Investment Affairs of Kuwait, Saad Al Barrak, said.

08 July 2023; MEMO: The Basic Education Union in Tunisia denounced the decision by the Minister of Education to dismiss 150 school principals from their positions, considering it a "targeting of union work."

According to Anadolu Agency, this came in a press conference held by the union's general secretary, Nabil Hawashi, on Friday in the capital, Tunis.

BRUSSELS, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) and New Zealand signed their free trade agreement (FTA) here on Sunday to boost bilateral trade.

The deal will cut some 140 million euro (154 million U.S. dollars) a year in duties for EU companies from the first year of application; bilateral trade is expected to grow by up to 30 percent within a decade, and EU's annual exports could potentially grow by up to 4.5 billion euros, according to a press release from the European Commission (EC).

MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent greetings to participants, organizers and guests of the Future Technologies Forum that is taking place under the motto ‘Ahead of Time’, according to a statement released on the Kremlin’s website on Sunday.

TEHRAN, Jul 9 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister, said yesterday that, his country and Sudan have agreed to resume bilateral relations in the near future.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks at a joint press conference with his Algerian counterpart, Ahmed Attaf, held after their talks in the Iranian capital, Tehran earlier in the day.

07 July 2023; MEMO: Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized a tanker holding 900 metric tons of "smuggled fuel" and 12 crew members, based on a court order, a report by the semi-official Fars News Agency said on Friday.

07 July 2023; MEMO: The Swedish government is examining whether it could change the law to stop people setting the Quran on fire in public, as recent burnings of the Muslim Holy Book have damaged Sweden's security, Justice Minister, Gunnar Strommer, told Aftonbladet paper on Thursday.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Campaigning in Iowa, former President Donald Trump attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as an enemy of corn-based ethanol in his largest campaign event in the leadoff caucus state in nearly four months.

Trump, appearing Friday in Council Bluffs in the western part of the state, criticized his top 2024 Republican presidential rival for voting as a member of Congress to oppose the federal mandate for the fuel additive that Iowa leads the nation in producing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairmen of three key House committees are joining forces to probe the Justice Department’s handling of charges against Hunter Biden after making sweeping claims about misconduct at the agency.

Leaders of the House Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, and Ways and Means committees opened a joint investigation into the federal case into President Joe Biden’s youngest son days after it was announced last month that he will plead guilty to the misdemeanor tax offenses as part of an agreement with the Justice Department.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani could be disbarred in Washington after a review panel on Friday condemned how he pursued the false claims that then-President Donald Trump made about his 2020 presidential election loss.

Giuliani “claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence,” wrote the three-member panel in a report that details the errors and unsupported claims the former mayor made in a Pennsylvania lawsuit seeking to overturn the Republican president’s loss to Democrat Joe Biden.