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Brother of Dalim remanded again for grilling

Source: BDNews24

Tripoli :: Libya | updated Sat Oct 31 03:36:36 -0700 2009 | political-news

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...

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Libya to put Swiss businessmen on trial

Source: Financial Times

Tripoli :: Libya | updated Thu Nov 12 13:49:26 -0800 2009 | political-news

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...

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Libya, Turkey drop visa restrictions

Source: United Press International

Tripoli :: Libya | updated Tue Nov 24 06:04:56 -0800 2009 | political-news

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...

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Libya talks over IRA compensation

Source: BBC

Tripoli :: Libya | updated Sat Oct 31 14:53:28 -0700 2009 | political-news

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...

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Oil Search abandons Libya well

Source: The Age

Tripoli :: Libya | updated Thu Nov 19 03:49:21 -0800 2009 | business-news

It said the A1-18/01 (Caliph) well in a frontier area offshore Libya had been plugged and abandoned after fishing attempts were unsuccessful. Global oilfield services provider Schlumberger defines fishing as "the application of tools, equipment and techniques for the removal...

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Hostages in Libya returned to Swiss embassy

Source: SwissInfo

Tripoli :: Libya | updated Mon Nov 09 15:51:16 -0800 2009 | political-news

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...

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French have a good laugh at President’s expense

Source: Asian Age

Tripoli :: Libya | updated Sun Nov 15 23:00:27 -0800 2009 | political-news

Mr Sarkozy’s desire to be at the centre of events has now been parodied in a series of spoof photographs, showing him leading the French to victory in the 1998 Football World Cup and storming the Bastille in 1789. He...

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US senator calls for return of Lockerbie bomber to jail

Source: The independent

Tripoli :: Libya | updated Fri Nov 20 16:13:59 -0800 2009 | political-news

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...

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Gaddafi goes for hostesses with the mostest

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Tripoli :: Libya | updated Tue Nov 17 20:15:23 -0800 2009 | political-news

They were under orders not to show too much leg or cleavage. But a strict dress code for glamorous young Italian women appeared to have slipped somewhat when another 200 were entertained by Libya's eccentric leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Many...

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BP to start drilling in Libya in 2010

Source: The independent

Tripoli :: Libya | updated Thu Oct 29 17:40:19 -0700 2009 | business-news

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...

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