A "talking points" memo distributed to government officials about the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya was altered by the intelligence community and not the White House, CNN reported.

Armed militants stormed the U.S. mission in Benghazi on September 11 in a coordinated assault at two different locations over several hours that left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.

A senior Libyan delegation is to visit the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in a show of solidarity for the Palestinian people under Israeli attack, a government official said.

The source told AFP the team will be led by Salah al-Makhzoum, vice president of the National Assembly, Libya's highest political authority, and deputy prime minister Al-Seddik Krayem.

U.S. senators got their first look Thursday at dramatic video footage of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi as they probed the government's response to the deadly September 11 assault in Libya.

Four Americans were killed in the attack including the U.S. ambassador, Chris Stevens, and President Barack Obama's administration is under fire over security at the consulate and for its evolving narrative about the assault.

The trial of late strongman Moammar Gadhafi's last prime minister, Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, is to open in the Libyan capital on Monday, the public prosecutor's spokesman said.

"Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi will appear tomorrow (Monday) on the occasion of a first case" against him, Taha Baara said, adding that Mahmoudi faces charges of "prejudicial acts against the security of the state."

A car bomb exploded in Libya's second city of Benghazi on Wednesday, wounding an officer who had served in the regime of slain leader Moammar Gadhafi, a local security official told Agence France Presse.

Hussam al-Raaid, a former officer of the toppled regime's reviled internal security services, was wounded when his booby-trapped vehicle exploded outside his house, the official said on condition of anonymity.

A Libyan military court on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to interrogate former transitional leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil over the murder of a general who had commanded rebel forces last year.

The court in the eastern city of Benghazi ordered that the ex-chairman of the National Transitional Council, a political body representing rebels in the 2011 conflict, be questioned over the killing of General Abdel Fatah Younes.

Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi arrived in Tripoli on Tuesday for high level talks with Libya's first elected authorities since the ouster of veteran strongman Moammar Gadhafi.

Terzi was welcomed at Meitiga International Airport by Libyan counterpart Mohammed Abdel Aziz, an Agence France Presse photographer said.

A car exploded outside a police station in Libya's second city of Benghazi on Sunday, causing damage to the building and lightly wounding four policemen, according to the official LANA news agency.

The attack came as the country's new authorities try to empower the national army and police but struggle to rein in armed militias born out of the 2011 conflict that toppled long-time dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Italian coastguards recovered the bodies of seven would-be immigrants from the Mediterranean on Sunday after their boat sank between the Libyan coast and the Italian island of Lampedusa, bringing the death toll to 10, the Ansa news agency said.

The bodies of three women had been found by coastguards overnight but another 62 men and eight women, including one pregnant woman, were rescued, it said, without disclosing their nationalities.

Libyan ex-rebel fighters protesting against a new government line-up loosened a day-old siege of the national assembly building on Friday, an Agence France Presse correspondent reported.

Traffic was flowing freely again on the road leading to the assembly and the adjacent Rixos hotel, with police cars deployed at the entrances and at nearby junctions.