Deborah Jones arrived in Tripoli last week to become Washington's first ambassador to Libya since Christopher Stevens was killed last year in Benghazi.

The news that oil output has fallen to below one million barrels per day (bpd) shows the extent to which sit-ins, protests and strikes are starting to cut off the lifeblood of Libya's economy.

The chief of staff of the Libyan army, Yousef al-Mangoush, has stepped down in the wake of clashes in Benghazi on 7 June which killed some 30 people.

His resignation was accepted by the General National Congress (GNC), Libya's national assembly, on 9 June.

At least four people were killed in a car bomb that exploded near a hospital in Benghazi on 13 May.

Government and local officials have given conflicting estimates on how many people died in the blast, which occurred at around 3pm near the Jalaa Hospital and caused numerous injuries to passers-by.

The latest pledge to reduce Libya's enormous state subsidies bill has come from oil and gas minister Abdelbari al-Arusi, who says the government aims to cut out all fuel subsidies within three years.

On 5 May the General National Congress (GNC) voted overwhelmingly to pass the so-called 'political isolation' law, which bars those who held senior public positions at any time between 1969 and 2011 from taking up similar posts in the future.

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Almost 90 people have now been killed by drinking poisoned alcohol, says the Ministry of Health, but no more hospitalizations have taken place in the past few days.

A recent report sheds some light on how the LD68.5bn ($55bn) budget, approved by the National Transitional Council (NTC) in March 2012, was used.

The combined value of deposits held in Libya's commercial banks is now about 20% higher than in 2010, but lending remains relatively low.