Gaddafi killed as Sirte falls - live coverage
Source: The Guardian
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2011-12-22 09:31:10 -0800 | political-news
Nato commanders are recommending the Libya air campaign should now be brought to an end, according to the Guardian's Julian Borger. The formal decision will be taken tomorrow by the North Atlantic Council, representing Nato member states...A military assessment of...
Gaddafi Had Close Ties With US-UK Intelligence Agencies: HRW
Source: International Business Times
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2011-11-04 12:46:30 -0700 | disasters-news
Get summaries of the top business news from a global perspective Sample The papers were discovered by members of Human Rights Watch (HRW), a London -based activist group. According to the papers, during the height of the west's war on...
Libya: rebels surround Gaddafi's Sirte stronghold - live updates
Source: The Guardian
Ankara :: Turkey | updated 2011-11-03 03:21:16 -0700 | political-news
More than a week after the rebels entered Tripoli, Muammar Gaddafi remains as illusive as ever. Here's a summary of the most recent developments Libya Libyan rebels are closing in on Muammar Gaddafi's home town of Sirte after rejecting an...
SA, US deal frees up $1.5bn Libya aid
Source: News 24
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2011-10-29 04:54:05 -0700 | political-news
The UN Security Council on Thursday agreed to release $1.5bn of seized Libya assets to buy emergency aid after the United States and South Africa ended a dispute over the cash. South Africa had been blocking the unfreezing of assets...
Libya: UN Distributes Ramadaan Meals to Refugees in Tunisia
Source: Africa Headlines
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2011-10-05 13:00:10 -0700 | political-news
UN Distributes Ramadan Meals to 55,000 Refugees in Tunisia 3 August 2011 The United Nations refugee agency and its partners in Tunisia are distributing food for more than 55,000 Libyans who have fled the fighting in their homeland to help...
Alternative Libya Govt. Gains Traction
Source: Israel National News
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2011-04-28 03:01:38 -0700 | political-news
Feb/27/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and An alternative government being set up by former Libyan Justice Minister Mustafa Mohamed Abdel Jalil gained traction over the weekend, as a number of Libyan diplomats in the West, who have denounced Muamar...
Arab world simmers; Gaddafi's son warns of rivers of blood
Source: NewKerala
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2011-04-23 04:16:52 -0700 | political-news
Anti-government protests intensified Monday in Libya as Muammar Gaddafi's son warned of "rivers of blood" and two Libyan diplomats, including its envoy to India, quit to protest the crackdown while elsewhere in the Arab world the demonstrations continued to swell....
Venezuela’s Chávez condemns assassination of Qaddafi as ‘disregard for life’
Source: San Francisco Bay View
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2011-12-29 18:20:34 -0800 | political-news
Ewan Robertson, Venezuelanalysis.com Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez condemned the killing of Libyan head of state Muammar Qaddafi as an assassination and a disregard of life. The Libyan leader was confirmed dead Oct. 20 by the rebel National Transition Council (NTC)...
New Libyan Government Would Block Extradition of Lockerbie Bomber, Officials Say
Source: Fox News
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2011-11-02 18:18:12 -0700 | political-news
In this image made from television, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, right, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, is greeted by Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi in Tripoli, Libya. Libya's new government will refuse to hand over Lockerbie bomber Abdel...
London hints at shape of Libyan government
Source: United Press International
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-11-01 21:23:44 -0700 | political-news
Members of the existing regime in Libya could play a role in any interim government that follows Moammar Gadhafi's departure, London said. Turkey last week hosted the fourth meeting of an international contact group for Libya. Delegates at the meeting,...
Libyan ruler defiant as airstrikes by coalition forces enter 2nd day
Source: CNN
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2011-05-22 01:33:19 -0700 | business-news
Fighter jets zoomed across eastern Libya on Sunday as an international military coalition hammered air defense positions near the capital for a second day. Some Libyans welcomed the American, French and British military forces carrying out air and missile attacks...
Canada to send frigate to Libya
Source: Leader Post Online
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2011-05-05 20:53:52 -0700 | political-news
Charlottetown to Libya to help in the ongoing evacuation efforts in the troubled North African country, the federal government announced Tuesday. Defence Minister Peter MacKay told reporters that the Charlottetown will be launched Wednesday. MacKay said it should take six...
Rebel soldiers protect desert oilfields
Source: The Age
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2011-05-05 20:56:27 -0700 | political-news
Story continues below ''Our first priority is to protect the oilfields around Jalu, which I believe are vulnerable to attack from Gaddafi,'' he said. It is believed that about 80 per cent of Libya's vast oil resources are in the...
Gadaffi unflinching as rebel city fears counter-attack
Source: Mail and Guardian
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2011-05-06 06:15:36 -0700 | political-news
Rebels awaited a counter-attack by Moammar Gadaffi's forces on Monday, after the Libyan leader defied calls for him to quit in the hardest-fought of the Arab world's wave of uprisings. Rebels holding Zawiyah, only 50km west of Tripoli, said about...
Libya exodus 'emergency' as Asian workers land in Malta
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2011-05-04 23:44:29 -0700 | political-news
Story continues below Meanwhile a ferry loaded with some 1,800 Asian workers docked in the Mediterranean island of Malta. As the closest European Union member state located just 350 kilometres (218 miles) north of Libya, it has become a key...
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