Libyan militias withdrew their trucks with mounted machine guns from outside the foreign and justice ministries May 8, but protesters remained, AFP reported.

Libyan Defense Minister Mohammed al-Barghathi retracted the resignation that he announced early May 7, The Tripoli Post reported.

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan will make an important decision May 7 along with the Libyan army's chief of staff, a Libyan Defense Ministry spokesman said, denying reports that the chief of staff had quit, Reuters reported.

Gunmen in Libya surrounded the foreign and justice ministries on May 6 and demanded the government's resignation, despite the adoption of a law to remove officials who served under the regime of former leader Moammar Gadhafi, AFP reported.

Libya's General National Congress passed the Isolation Law on May 5, barring anyone who held a senior position under ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi from working in the new administration, Reuters reported.

At least 200 gunmen allegedly armed with AK-47s and sniper rifles have surrounded the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli to demand that officials who worked for ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi be banned from senior positions in the new government, witnesses and a military official said April 28, Al Jazeera reported.

A bomb detonated outside a police station around 6 a.m. April 27 in Benghazi, extensively damaging the building but causing no injuries, Reuters reported.