Tripoli News

Tripoli - Libyan health officials said Monday the country had recorded its first lethal case of the pandemic swine flu virus. The first victim was a 40-year-old pregnant woman, who experienced side effects common with the A(H1N1) virus, also known...

Rachid Hamdani and Max Goeldi have been held in Libya since July 2008 after Hannibal Gaddafi and his wife were accused of beating their domestic employees in Switzerland...The two businessmen were given 16-month prison terms, it was confirmed in Tripoli...

Turkey and Libya will end visa requirements between the two countries, their leaders say. The announcement came Tuesday from Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Trade and Industry Minister Zafer Caglayan visited...

It said among those freed were 45 members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which had been accused of trying to oust Col Muammar Gaddafi's regime. The militants had been in prolonged talks with Tripoli to reach a deal to...

The two men, Max Goeldi, the Libya head of the Swiss-Swedish engineering conglomerate ABB, and Rachid Hamdani who works for a construction company are to face charges of tax evasion and visa irregularities...Switzerland said in August that Libya had given...

The foreign ministry says the two Swiss businessmen abducted by the Libyan government in September have been returned to the Swiss embassy in Tripoli. The Swiss citizens "are as well as can be expected under the circumstances", the ministry said...

Megrahi wore body armour under shell suit to thwart assassination Published Date: 02 December 2009 THE white shell suit worn by the Lockerbie bomber as he was freed from prison was chosen to hide the protective body armour he had...

Also, Arab-Israeli citizens will be allowed into Tulkarm. (Ynet)

A US senator has written to Gordon Brown, demanding the immediate return of the Lockerbie bomber to prison. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's early release from Greenock jail in Scotland on compassionate grounds was granted...