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TRIPOLI. — Libya’s Supreme Court invalidated the country’s internationally recognised parliament yesterday, setting the stage for more political chaos in the violence-wracked nation.

The court’s ruling, which cannot be appealed, prompted celebratory gunfire in the capital Tripoli, which has been held by Islamist-led militia since August, an AFP correspondent reported.

But it piled further pressure on the government of Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani which is holed up in the remote eastern town of Tobruk near the Egyptian border and has almost no control over Libya’s three main cities.

The court had been asked by an Islamist lawmaker to rule on the constitutionality of the parliament elected in June that approved Thani’s government, one of two rival administrations in the North African country. — AFP