Tripoli — Libyan legislators on Wednesday approved the country’s first unified government in about seven years, overcoming a major hurdle in a fragile political reconciliation that’s supposed to end almost a decade of conflict.

Legislators overwhelmingly backed Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah’s proposed transitional administration during a third joint session of the North African nation’s two rival assemblies...

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