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The U.S. has raised the American flag over its embassy in Libya for the first time in about 30 years. The ceremony was the latest sign of improving U.S. relations with the onetime pariah nation in North African.
The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli opened two years ago, but the nomination of Gene Cretz as ambassador was held up until late last year.
Cretz attended the flag-raising ceremony and is the highest-ranking U.S. diplomat in Libya since 1972, when Washington’s last ambassador was withdrawn as Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi intensified anti-Western policies. The embassy was closed in 1980.
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