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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...

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...

The recent release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basete al-Megrahi produced immediate outrage from the White House in reaction to later scenes of jubilation marking his arrival in Libya. Al-Megrahi had been freed on humanitarian grounds by Scottish Justice Secretary...

Bintang said he had met Libyan property businessmen and been offered the chance to build  apartment towers in the North African country. The highway construction project in Algeria is Wika’s first overseas project. It is participating in the East-West Motorway...

Colonel Gaddafi's regime secretly supplied the IRA with weapons and explosives in the 1980s. Diplomatic relations between the UK and Tripoli have improved and there have recently been signs of a possible change in attitude over payments. Three MPs and...

A Dhaka court has given police another four days to grill Kamrul Haq Swapan, the brother of self-confessed killer former army officer Shariful Haq Dalim, and Freedom Party worker Abdur Rahim, in connection with the bomb attack on Awami League...

BP will start drilling in Libya next year, spending more than $1bn (£603m) on its two concessions in the controversial North African country, the company said yesterday. The two enormous blocks – one the size of Kuwait in the offshore...