Qatar crisis spills into Libya, tangling Glencore in oil dispute
Cairo
THE Qatar crisis is reverberating in Libya, inflaming political divisions in the war-torn oil exporter and dragging commodity-trading giant Glencore plc into a dispute over crude sales.
The row involves competing administrations of the National Oil Corp (NOC) that are vying to control crude exports from the Opec member.
In eastern Libya, the local military commander is backed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt, three of the countries attempting to i…
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