UN approves advance team for Libya for cease-fire monitoring

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is asking the secretary-general to swiftly deploy an advance team to Libya as a first step to sending monitors to observe an October cease-fire between the country’s warring parties. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recommended in late December that international monitors be deployed to Libya, under a U.N. umbrella, to observe the cease-fire from a base in the strategic city of Sirte. The council said in a letter on Thursday that Gute