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Exclusive: Abdurrahim El-Keib says Abdul Senussi, who has fled Libya, was 'directly or indirectly involved' in 1984 murderLibya's interim prime minister said on Friday that his country's former intelligence chief was "directly or indirectly involved" in the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher and knew the identity of her killer.In an interview with the Guardian, Abdurrahim El-Keib sai...

Libyan prime minister Abdurrahim El-Keib lays a wreath at the spot where policewoman Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead in London in 1984.

Meeting interim Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib at Downing Street, David Cameron confirms officers from the Met will travel to Libya to investigate WPc Yvonne Fletcher's murder.

SCOTLAND Yard said it's been given permission to travel to Libya to reinvestigate the 1984 killing of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot by someone firing from inside the Libyan embassy in London during a demonstration.

The new Libyan Prime Minister says he wants to help identify the killer of Wpc Yvonne Fletcher who was shot dead outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984.

London detectives have visas to Libya to investigated the 1984 shooting death of an officer killed outside the Libyan diplomatic offices.

French authorities have launched an investigation into technology firm Amesys, a unit of Bull SA, for alleged complicity in acts of torture in Libya, according to two human-rights groups that said the investigating magistrate's office had informed them of the probe.

Over the course of 2011's momentous Arab Spring uprisings, young women in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in their countries, according to a new study commissioned by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

TUNIS  - Tunisia will extradite former Libyan prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, held since his arrest last September, but was still awaiting "guarantees" of a fair trial in Libya, officials said Tuesday. "The extradition decision has been taken," a justice ministry official told AFP. "There are only the procedures to complete with the Libyan authorities." However a spokesman of ...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Tunisia's Justice Ministry says it will extradite former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi - currently being held in Tunis - back to Libya....

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia will extradite former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's prime minister to Libya and the handover could take place in "days or weeks", Justice Minister Noureddine Bouheiri said on Tuesday.

Ex-prime minister Ali Al-Mahmoudi to be handed over to Libya within "days or weeks," Tunisia's justice minister says.

NATO’S “victory” in Libya, senior U.S. officials recently wrote, was a “model intervention,” a “teachable moment.” “The first lesson is that NATO is uniquely positioned to respond quickly and effectively to international crises,” the U.S. ambassador to NATO, Ivo H. Daalder, and NATO’s supreme allied commander, Adm. James G. Stavridis, wrote in the March-April issue of Foreign Affairs. Read full...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie will be buried on Monday in a quiet ceremony that Libyans hope will allow them to leave behind the controversy that surrounded him in life.

Megrahi was a convicted mass murderer who was cynically traded by the last Labour government in return for commercial opportunities in Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya. If this seems an almost incredible charge, I am afraid it is one that can be sustained by ample evidence.

The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scot land in 1988 that killed 270 peo ple has died, his brother said on Sunday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- For relatives of the people who died in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the death Sunday of the only man who was convicted stirred up questions once again about his guilt and whether others went unpunished....

Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people, has died of cancer in Libya, according to his family.Full Coverage: Lockerbie BombingRoadside Bomb Explodes Near UN Observer Team in Syria

An excellent long read in the new Wired magazine: Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi's Secret Surveillance Network. Matthieu Aikins examines how activists suffered "greatly at the hands of Gadhafi’s spy service, whose own capabilities had been heightened by 21st-century technology." By now, it’s well known that the Arab Spring showed the promise of the Internet [...]

Seven months on from Muammar Gaddafi's butchering in the ruins of Sirte, the fruits of liberal intervention in Libya are now cruelly clear.

World Cup qualifiers featuring Egypt and Libya will be played behind closed doors, football's world governing body Fifa says.

Is the so-called "International Criminal Court" a racist organization? If not, then why is Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor, suddenly fascinated by the prospect of trying war crimes in the DR Congo when an indictment against NATO was thrust before his eyes and he does nothing? And what about the NTC terrorists in Libya?

Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) warmly accepted the international community's military and political support for dislodging the Qaddafi government, and vowed to build a new state that would respect human rights. But it seems to be veering off course. Not only is it rejecting international human rights monitoring and the ICC's jurisdiction, but more troubling still, it has passed s...

Dozens of Libyan civilians died in NATO air strikes on sites with no apparent military value, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday that called on Canada and other participants in last year's conflict to probe whether laws of war were violated

Tweet Widget Facebook Like The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has failed to acknowledge dozens of civilian casualties from air strikes during its 2011 Libya campaign, and has not investigated possible unlawful attacks, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. (Brussels) – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO...

The future of Libya depends on mercy or revenge.

Question Period: MacKay denied hiding the true cost of the Canadian mission in Libya amid further NDP allegations that the Tories keep two sets of books on military spending — one for them and one for the public

About 4,000 people are still being held in militia detention centres in Libya, often in secret and many are tortured, a UN envoy said.

The top UN envoy in Libya said Thursday there are positive signs that the country is moving toward democracy but longstanding tensions have escalated into armed conflicts, detainees are still being tortured, and there is rising discontent among former revolutionary fighters.

Wien (OTS) - - OMV bietet mit dem Libya Youth Center Kindern und Jugendlichen eine Perspektive für eine sorgenfreiere Zukunft - Bereits vor der offiziellen Eröffnung am 8. Mai konnten 260 junge Einheimische betreut werden - Ausbildung libyscher Freiwilliger im sozialen Bereich erhöht …

Abdulrahman Karfakh was an important agent linking the Canadian engineering firm to the Gadhafi clan. His whereabouts are unknown, and the rebels want him dead or alive

Rentokil Initial is in talks with the Libyan government about resuming its rat-catching contract after a sharp increase in vermin in the country.

TRIPOLI – Libya had sought to question Muammar Gadafy’s former oil boss in a corruption investigation before his body was found in the river Danube in Austria this week, prosecutor general Abdelaziz al-Hasadi said yesterday.

Libya wants the ICC to abandon its legal action against Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and the former intelligence chief so they can be tried in Tripoli.

Scotland's top prosecutor joined the director of the FBI on a mission to Libya to discuss the investigation into the Lockerbie bombing.

The body of a man who was Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s prime minister and oil minister in Libya before he defected last year was found in the Danube River on Sunday.

British Airways plans to resume flights to Libya next week, despite continuing Foreign Office advice against non-essential travel to the country.

THE VALUABLE Libyan market for Irish and EU beef looks set to be reopened after a 16-year ban, Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said yesterday.

International Criminal Court again rejected attempts by Libya to delay handing over one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons, who is wanted for trial.

Jordan has begun training Libyan policemen as part of a plan to reintegrate former anti-Gaddafi rebels back into Libyan society.

Headline Title:  Libya: Central government must protect Kufra residents from militia clashes 23 April 2012 The Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) must take steps to ensure that residents in the south-eastern city of Kufra are protected from reckless fire and receive im...

Much has been said about the role social media has come to play in the global landscape over the last few years. Whether one sees it as the tool of revolutions or not, Facebook, Twitter, and other media played an integral role in organizing the socio-political upheavals in Egypt, Libya, and across the Middle East and North Africa, allowing those oppressed and marginalized by despotic regimes to...

The military campaign, according to the alliance’s own confidential assessment, exposed unsustainable gaps in Europe’s capabilities.

TRIPOLI - Moamer Gaddafi’s son will face justice regardless of whether he is tried in The Hague or in Libya, Int’l Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said on Wednesday. “Judges of the ICC will decide who makes the trial,” Ocampo said. “The interesting thing is that the ICC wants to do justice on Seif (and) Libya wants to do justice on Seif, (so) there ...

Jack Straw was last night under pressure to "come clean" on whether he approved the secret rendition of a terror suspect to Libya - after reports that MI6 had forced him to admit making the decision.

AIR defence surveillance planes last used in action during Nato strikes on Libya

Stephen Goodson has been on the South African Reserve Bank's board from 2003. He holds extremist views on Hitler's Germany and Gaddafi's Libya.

The conflict has ended but many humanitarian needs remain. In recent weeks, the ICRC renewed its agreement with the Libyan authorities for several years, and provided urgent assistance for wounded people following clashes in Sabha and close to the Tunisian border.

Blech, having to write about such horrible things puts a bad taste in our mouths. Moammar Gadhafi's son and former heir is being put on trial in Libya for rape and murder charges, and there is hope for a verdict before mid-June. There IS a problem though, some think that he won't be given a fair trial [...]

Some say the former head of Libyan African Portfolio fund is in Africa. Others insist he is hiding out in Paris under the protection of powerful allies

TRIPOLI/DUBAI, April 4 (Reuters) - International firms are keen to enter Libya's telecommunications sector, one of the major business opportunities created by last year's uprisings in the Arab world....

"The crisis in Libya & Syria created a serious problem to the Indian farmers because of non-availability of phosphatic and potassic fertilizers," Mukherjee said.

TRIPOLI, LIBYA — At the entrance to Tripoli’s main landfill, Mustafa al-Sepany stands in combat fatigues, wearing an expression that says no trash trucks will get past him. For four months, none has, leaving the country’s capital city wallowing in uncollected garbage. Read full article >>

IT WAS no more than an inflatable dinghy. But 72 – 50 men, 20 women, and two babies – had clambered aboard, crowded on top of each other by the people smugglers, for the “18-hour” journey from Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa. March 26th, 2011.

This time around, President Barack Obama won’t be making any recess appointments. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday he received assurances from the White House that the president wouldn't bypass the Senate and install any of his nominees while Congress is out of town the next two weeks for its Easter break. In turn, Republicans allowed Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Ne...

"War in Libya," the work of Reuters' photojournalist Goran Tomasevic, won China's international press photo contest.

McCardell, whose husband had business dealings with Gadhafi regime, expected to land another diplomatic post in Arab-speaking world

DAVID ELKINS Amnesty International (AI) released a scathing report late last week calling for an investigation into civilian deaths from airstrikes during the 2011 Nato-led military intervention in Libya, which began one year ago Monday. “It is deeply disappointing that more than four months since the end of the military campaign, victims and relatives of those killed by Nato airstrikes ...

DAVID ELKINS Amnesty International (AI) released a scathing report late last week calling for an investigation into civilian deaths from airstrikes during the 2011 Nato-led military intervention in Libya, which began one year ago Monday. “It is deeply disappointing that more than four months since the end of the military campaign, victims and relatives of those killed by Nato airstrikes ...

Abdullah al-Senussi has been pursued by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity during last year’s struggle between rebels, Moammar Gadhafi

A U.N. panel set up last year to enforce an arms embargo in Libya has opened an inquiry into allegations that France and Qatar armed Libyan rebels involved in the overthrow of Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi's government, according to confidential report by the panel. The eight-member panel has made no ruling on whether the allies of the rebel Libyan government violated sanctions -- and it r...

Sunday Times had on March 11 reported that as militiamen in Libya recently went about destroying the Benghazi War Cemetery that has the graves of 40 Indian soldiers killed during WW II, New Delhi had remained unconcerned about the incident that drew howls of protest from the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Nine northern African countries including Libya, Algeria and Egypt agreed today to work together to secure their borders in a move to clamp down on militia clashes and weapons smuggling in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings.

itwbennett writes "French computer company Bull Group is looking to sell off the Internet spying software business of its subsidiary Amesys. The Eagle system, which was 'designed to build databases supporting lawful interception activities on the Internet,' has an interesting pedigree, having been 'developed for Libya after signing a 2007 contract with the regime there,' according to the WSJ." ...

FROM China to Libya and Iran, the new foreign affairs minister is out of step.

1935: The world's first parking meters appear. T.E. Lawrence dies in a motorcycle accident. The nation of Libya is formed. In other news, "Everyday Science and Mechanics" magazine published their vision of the future of reading. Hello, iPad grandpa. More »

Over the past decade, the overwhelming majority of NATO "kills" in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya have been unarmed civilians.

LIBYA says it has unearthed a mass grave with 157 bodies of rebel fighters and civilians.

Most recently in Libya, before that in Kosovo, western powers claimed on the basis of dubious facts that a humanitarian disaster was unfolding.

Release Time:  For Immediate Release The Oval Office 3:41 P.M. EST PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Well, I want to welcome Prime Minister Thorning-Schmidt to the White House and to the Oval Office.  This is the first time that we've had a chance to meet, but obviously we've been very impressed with the first five months of her prime ministe...

The deaths of Marie Colvin, Anthony Shadid and other journalists is tragic. But to pull back from war zones would leave untold the stories that must be chronicled.Marie Colvin and I covered our first combat together in 1986, after the U.S. bombed Libya. She was 30, pretty, ambitious and talented. She soon had Col. Moammar Kadafi and his aides in her thrall and parlayed her many scoops for Unite...

Libya's Olympic chief is targetting the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro for the country's first medal as he attempts to overcome the years of sporting neglect.

New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, who twice won the Pulitzer Prize and was captured in Libya last year, dies on assignment in Syria.

HAD THINGS worked out little differently, Eamon Zayed might have spent the last few weeks in Equatorial Guinea with Libya at the African Cup of Nations.

Ihaab Boussefi's two goals weren't enough to send Libya through to the quarter-finals of the African Cup of Nations despite a 2-1 win over Senegal on Sunday.

The west Africans leave the tournament in shame as they lose their third game to the north Africans who also fail to go through to the last eight.

Libya 2 Zambia 2:Libya kept alive hopes of a fairytale showing in the African Nations Cup by holding Zambia to a 2-2 draw in their Group A match in Bata on Wednesday.

Libyan prime minister says involvement will not threaten Libyan sovereignty and that no Italian troops will be present.

Newsnight has learned that the SAS troops were on the ground in Libya, alongside the anti-Gaddafi forces.

In a chaotic Libya or a post-war Iraq, achieving individual safety and the most basic of health care might seem to be the best any government or aid organization could hope for. But areas in transition and those still tending to the societal wounds of war are actually well poised to combat chronic conditions, such [...]

Those premonitions about NATO and Libya might yet prove correct, but, for now, they’re certainly wrong

Those premonitions about NATO and Libya might yet prove correct, but, for now, they’re certainly wrong

Spot the odd one out: Libya, Iran, Switzerland. For oil refiners, it's a cruel trick question. All three spell trouble.

The challenges in Libya are far greater than those faced by its neighbours in Tunisia and Egypt

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Nato on Tuesday said it was ready to investigate claims of civilian deaths during the Libya air campaign should it receive a request from the country’s new authorities.Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin has said he will take up the issue with the UN Security Council this week after estimates in The New York Times that Nato-led air attacks killed from 40 to more than 70 people in ...

NATO, fresh from its battlefield success in Libya, is focusing on the next front: cyberwar.

Early Saturday, Leon E. Panetta became the first U.S. defense secretary to visit Libya, arriving to assess a government trying to unite rebel groups that ousted Col. Qaddafi.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited Libya Saturday for meetings with the head of the country's new government, promising to provide assistance while avoiding dictating a path forward for the country.

Bloomberg’s Robert Tuttle, Anthony DiPaoloa and Eduard Gismatullin report this afternoon that BP (BP) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) plan to resume exploration for oil in Libya, after being approached by the Libyan government to do so since the conclusion of the country’s revolution, citing remarks by the companies. BP had been “‘on the verge’ of [...]

PM to service personnel: the nation owes you a very big thank you

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - To the people of Benghazi, the faded colonial facades are as significant as the burnt-out buildings and bullet holes.

In general, I like the bulk of Politico's coverage of campaigns -- as someone who's not a DC insider, I learn a fair amount from their coverage.  Every once in a while, however, Politico betrays a worldview that political process is always more important than substance.  As someone who appreciates process, there are still limits on this formulation.  Exhibit A for this is today's Jonathan M...

Bangladeshi migrant workers are set to return to Libya following the civil war

The Nubian Aquifer, the font of fabled oases in Egypt and Libya, stretches languidly across 770,000 square miles of northern Africa, a pointillist collection of underground pools of water migrating, ever so slowly, through rock and sand toward the Mediterranean Sea... from the New York Times (Registration Required)

Egypt and Libya can look to the past to help build a more stable future.

Aerial bombing, first unleashed in Libya, has seen tremendous technological change.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Herman Cain suggested Friday that the Taliban were playing a role in Libya's new government. The comment initially was seen as another foreign policy misstep from the Republican presidential candidate, but aides later pointed to a one-time Libyan rebel leader who fought in Afghanistan to back up Cain's claims....

Spanish integrated oil company’s Argentine subsidiary offsets falls in production in Libya during the third quarter

Have you made up your mind on the morality of our intervention in Libya? So fast? Not even the pope or moral theologians are so sure of when ...