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News Source: The Daily Star
| about 1 year ago
The agreement signed last Saturday that saw Italy apologize and pay $5 billion in compensation for its colonial rule and misdeeds in Libya was a powerful example of why it is so important to acknowledge that which many of our friends in the West...
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News Source: AKI
| about 1 year ago
France must make reparations for its bloody colonial past in Algeria as Italy has now done with Libya, Algerian politicians and intellectuals argued on Monday. The calls followed the signing on Saturday between Italy and Libya of a 5 billion dollar...
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News Source: Ansa
| about 1 year ago
Italy and Libya's deal on
colonial compensation ''sets the seal on the past,'' Italian
Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Monday. Berlusconi noted that he and Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi signed the $5 billion deal in Benghazi on Saturday
''in...
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News Source: Turkish Daily News
| about 1 year ago
Agence France-Presse Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has apologized to Libya for damages inflicted by Italy during the colonial era, and signed a $5 billion investment deal by way of compensation Saturday. Berlusconi made the apology...
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News Source: Zawya Political
| about 1 year ago
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said his regime's long estrangement from the United States was finally over as he marked the 39th anniversary on Monday of his overthrow of the Western-backed monarchy. "The whole business of the conflict between Libya...
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News Source: France 24
| about 1 year ago
Muammar Gaddafi said on Monday Libya would grant Italy privileges in investments in oil, gas and other business to reward it for compensating Tripoli for its colonial rule of the North African state. “Libya will benefit from its strengthened...
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News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
A “friendship deal” worth billions of pounds has been signed by the
and Libyan leaders as part of a package of investment and reparations for 32
years of colonial rule. In a ceremony at the weekend in Benghazi, Silvio Berlusconi, the Itali...
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News Source: Financial Times
| about 1 year ago
In a tent outside Benghazi on Saturday, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s centre-right prime minister, returned a headless statue of Venus carted away by Italians decades ago and signed a friendship pact with Muammer Gaddafi, the Libyan leader
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News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
Pope Benedict spoke of the 'emergency' of illegal immigration in his Sunday address to the faithful, and encouraged politicians to tackle the problem. Saturday, Italy and Libya signed a historic agreement that is hoped will improve controls on the...
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News Source: Zawya Political
| about 1 year ago
Italian media on Sunday said an investment package signed by Rome to compensate Libya for damage caused during the colonial era would mean "more oil and less immigrants" for Italy. "Thanks to this accord we will see the number of clandestine migrants...