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Militants in Benghazi have conducted a number of assassinations over the past few days, killing eight people yesterday alone, and kidnapping a Ukrainian anaesthetist and his wife. Fighting between rival Islamist groups in Derna killed six people. The property of the new Interior Minister was torched in Tripoli and Misrata. The rival government headed by Omer Al Hassi appointed 10 ministers. Operation Dignity carried out airstrikes on the port in Benghazi used by Majlis al-Shura, the name for the group of Islamist forces in the city.