Tripoli intercepted 100,000 tablets bearing the late Libyan leader's image shipped via Europe in a Renault Master van, while Benghazi's investigators separately seized captagon tablets assessed to have originated in Syria, where the al-Assad regime once industrialised the billion-dollar trade.
Answering a Euronews question at the Arab Media Summit in Dubai, Syria's president said he hoped the situation "remains stable" but admitted "nobody can predict" what happens next, while urging Arab countries to work together.
Demonstrators blocked oil tanker routes and roads in six provinces on the second consecutive day of unrest over a 25–40% fuel price rise, as more than 50 MPs signed a demand to question the energy minister.