Libyan prisoners held in Guantanamo prison will be returned home to Libya soon according to Minister of Foreign Affairs Ashour Ben Khayal. He added that a number of contacts had also been made with other countries holding Libyan prisoners to (Continue Reading…)
During Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule, professional sport was actively discouraged in Libya but, in London this summer, one young athlete hopes to win his country’s first Olympic medal. He may be the fastest man in Libya but Mohamed Khawaja has (Continue Reading…)
Investigators are carrying out DNA tests on remains that could belong to Lebanese Imam Musa Sadr, who mysteriously disappeared in Libya more than 33 years ago, an official at the ministry of missing persons told AFP on Saturday. “We are (Continue Reading…)
The International Criminal Court prosecutor asked judges on Thursday to report Libya to the UN Security Council over its failure to extradite Seif Gaddafi. But the Libyan Justice Minister said Libya would not send Seif to the ICC and instead (Continue Reading…)
The optimism that we as Libyans felt at the end of the Gaddafi rule is being replaced by a return to a regime of ME ME ME. On February 17, 2011 we were all united with one thought, to overthrow (Continue Reading…)
MONTREAL — Police on Friday raided the Montreal headquarters of an engineering firm that had dealings in Moamer Kadhafi’s Libya and was loosely linked to a failed plot to smuggle the ex-dictator’s son into Mexico. The Canadian company is cooperating (Continue Reading…)
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people has been transferred to hospital after his health deteriorated, according to his brother. Megrahi was taken from his Tripoli home to a private hospital, (Continue Reading…)
The photographer André Liohn, who got an early start on covering the civil war in Libya and stayed in the country through the killing of Muammar Gaddafi, was recently asked not to use that term—civil war—to describe the conflict. Liohn (Continue Reading…)
AMSTERDAM- The International Criminal Court prosecutor asked judges on Thursday to report Libyato the U.N. Security Council over its failure to extradite Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late Libyan leader. Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked a panel of judges to reject (Continue Reading…)
AMMAN — Jordan’s Private Hospitals Association said on Thursday Amman is demanding Tripoli pay around 100 million dinars ($140 million) in bills for tens of thousands of Libyans hospitalised in the kingdom. “Jordan wants 100 million dinars from Libya, for (Continue Reading…)
