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The Libya Observer

The Libya Observer is an English-language Libyan news website publishing daily since 2014, with a companion Arabic edition. Based in Tripoli, it covers Libya's political divisions, security developments, economy and culture for an international audience, and is generally viewed as sympathetic to the authorities in western Libya. It is a frequently cited English source on Libyan affairs.

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The Libya Observer is positioned toward the editorial center of Libya's media spectrum, or its orientation is mixed or not consistently classified by the major media-bias assessments. Crosswire groups Libya outlets into left, center and right so you can read the same day's events from more than one vantage point: seeing The Libya Observer beside outlets of a different orientation makes editorial choices — which stories lead, which framing is used, what gets omitted — far easier to spot than reading any single source alone.

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