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Those living in the capital say they are exhausted by power cuts, price hikes and a lack of cash flow as rival authorities and militias battle for control of the fragmented oil-rich country.

"I hate to say it but our life was better under the previous regime," says Fayza al-Naas, a 42-year-old pharmacist, referring to Kadhafi's more than four decades of rule.

Today, "we wait for hours outside banks to beg cashiers to give us some of our own money. Everything is three times more expensive."

A UN-backed unity government has struggled to assert its authority nationwide since arriving in Tripoli in March, with a rival parliament in the country's far east refusing to cede power to it.

On Friday it suffered a new blow when a rival seized key offices in the capital and proclaimed the reinstatement of a third administration previously based in Tripoli.

The turmoil after Kadhafi's 2011 fall has allowed the Islamic State jihadist group to gain a foothold on Europe's doorstep after seizing the strongman's hometown of Sirte in June last year.

Forces loyal to the unity government have for five months been fighting to expel the last jihadists from the former IS stronghold, with support from US air strikes since early August.

With the loyalists weakened by the anti-IS battle, forces led by a controversial field marshal last month seized key oil terminals to its east, allowing the National Oil Company to resume crude exports.

The eastern parliament has thrown its support behind Khalifa Haftar, who presents himself as Libya's saviour in the face of a growing jihadist threat but is a hugely divisive figure.

- 'Chaos or military rule' -

While his army has ousted most jihadists from Benghazi, the birthplace of the 2011 uprising, his detractors accuse him of working towards the single goal of seizing power to establish a new military rule.

"Libyans are forced to choose between two extremes: either chaos with militias and Islamist extremists as the dominant forces, or military rule," said Libya analyst Mohamed Eljarh.

"No other convincing options are on offer," added Eljarh, of the Rafik Hariri Centre for the Middle East.

Haftar's forces have fought for more than two years to expel jihadists from second city Benghazi, while pro-GNA forces are caught up in fighting IS in Sirte.

According to Libya expert Mattia Toaldo, these rival forces might then want to extend their influence in other areas of the country and be met with tough local resistance.

"It is hard to think that the country will be stabilised any time soon," said Toaldo.

"Libyans seem to have swapped a repressive centralised authoritarianism with a more decentralised and chaotic form of authoritarianism, be it under militias or under the rule of general Haftar."

BUENOS AIRES, July 1 (Xinhua) -- President of the Argentine Olympic Committee (COA), Gerardo Werthein, said Friday it is a "disgrace" that a two-time medal-winning team like the country's national soccer team "can't call upon its players" for the Rio Olympic Games.

"What a lovely image we will give (the world) that Argentina can't form a soccer team!," said the leader.

Werthein said this after the national team's coach, Gerardo Martino, announced he would have to delay the start of training by a week since he currently only has eight players available.

"(It is) a disgrace that an Olympic double-medal-winning team (Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008) are unable to call upon their players," Werthein said. He asked soccer clubs to collaborate by allowing their Argentine players to play in the Olympics.

"(Martino) has to wake up and realize that this can't be downplayed," said Werthein.

The COA president warned, "It would be good to start worrying about the sport. With this anarchy, this lack of leadership, what can we expect?"

Italy's Juventus announced that they would not allow Argentine forward Paulo Dybala to participate and England's Everton also refused to allow defender Ramiro Funes Mori to attend the sporting event.

The soccer tournament will be played between August 3 and 19 in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, San Pablo, Brasilia, Manaos and Belo Horizonte. Argentina's first matches will be against Portugal on Aug. 4, then Algeria on Aug. 7 and Honduras on Aug. 10.

Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant denied on Tuesday having stolen the opening of the rock group's iconic song "Stairway to Heaven," telling a jury he had written the anthem decades ago while in the English countryside.

The 67-year-old musician told a Los Angeles federal court that the song at the center of a federal copyright case was clearly his work as well as that of Zeppelin guitarist-songwriter Jimmy Page.

He recalled hearing "Stairway" in its infancy in the early 1970s at Headley Grange, a recording and rehearsal venue in Hampshire, Britain, that the band used.

"That particular evening, I sat with Jimmy by the fire, and I had this first couplet that fit with what he was playing," he testified, recounting the beginning lyrics of the famous rock song.

"I was really trying to bring the remote, pastoral Britain... the old, almost unspoken Celtic references into the piece," he added.

Plant was one of the last witnesses to testify in the high-profile case, with closing arguments set to begin on Wednesday (local time) before the jury retires to begin deliberating a verdict.

Plant and Page are being sued for allegedly stealing the anthem's melancholic opening guitar arpeggio from "Taurus," a track on the first album of long-defunct LA psychedelic rock band Spirit.

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