Libya News

Libyan authorities said Monday police aborted an attempt by 115 illegal immigrants to use Libyan territorial waters to sneak into Europe.

"Do you know where you are? Lampedusa - it's a little, little island." Not the usual greeting to ... The interior ministry says of the 3,000 immigrants to arrive on Lampedusa between autumn 2004 and March 2005, 1,647 were flown back to Libya -- the starting point for many crossings -- under a fast-track repatriation deal with Tripoli.2.7

BEIRUT: The Lebanese government will shutdown one or two power plants if Syria agrees to sell ... Finance Minister Jihad Azour said earlier that the total losses of Electricite du Liban (EDL) may reach $800 million at the end of 2005.2.7

Registering overall growth of just over 2% in 2004, the U.S ... GEMS to manage International School of Tripoli GEMS have entered into an alliance to manage International school of Tripoli that has been designed to offer the best international education in Libya.

As part of efforts to bring about democracy and freedom to the more restrictive Arab countries, the Bush administration is cozying up to Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi after he reneged on terrorism and gave ...

I know you want to talk to President Bush about the conflict in Iraq, the war in which your son, ... I could have some people join us - for example, a few of the many Iraqi freedom fighters with whom I've been working for the past several years, many of them women, as well as democracy and human-rights activists from Syria, Iran, Libya, Egypt, ...

TOKYO - A donors conference to coordinate the revival of southern Iraq's once-lush marshlands has been canceled because of the ongoing stalemate in Baghdad over the country's constitution.1.3

MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon. Welcome to the last briefing of the week. I don't have any - that's true, last planned briefing.

The Libyan charge de affairs in Sweden was found dead in his apartment in Stockholm amid official Libyan confirmation that he had committed suicide.

Ohio's House Democrats are considering impeachment proceedings against Republican Gov ... US Senator Richard Lugar visits Libya AFP - Fri Aug 19, 6:13 PM ET TRIPOLI (AFP) - US Senator Richard Lugar arrived in Libya as part of the normalization process between Libya and the United States, a government source said.1.3

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has confirmed that the country's disgraced nuclear scientist ... In February 2004 Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, admitted selling atomic secrets to North Korea, Libya and Iran.4.3

DOHA: The Deputy Emir, Heir Apparent and Deputy Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces, H H Sheikh ... New page in US-Libya ties TRIPOLI: The Libyan and American flags will soon be flying in Washington and Tripoli to mark a new page in diplomatic ties after half a century of enmity, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son said in an interview.3.1

The head of the United Nations in Sudan said Wednesday that one of the main Darfur rebel factions was dedicated to resuming peace talks even though it had asked to postpone a session slated later this month.1.3

Politics: 24 August 2005, Wednesday. The envoys of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly did not hold a planned meeting with Bulgaria's jailed nurses in Libya.2.7

The West African state of Mauritania is establishing for the first time a ministry dedicated to science and education.

A mother who has been to Libya to see her five children for the first time in three years says she will never give up fighting to have them back.2.9

Several hundred former rebel Tuaregs from the west African state of Niger have enlisted in the Libyan army, a magazine published in Niger reports.2.7

LONDON: From the common folk to royalty, many cadets have nostalgic memories of their training at the prestigious Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in Surrey.2.7

Three Libyans, including two intelligence officers, allegedly involved in a plot to assassinate Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz have been pardoned by the new monarch, a Saudi security source said.4.5

Cyril Quantrill, who died on July 29 aged 89, spent four years as a Royal Signals dispatch rider in the Near East, including a spell in the besieged Libyan port of Tobruk, and then in 1955 founded the magazine ...2

Libya's Leader of the revolution, Muammar al-Qathafi, received the participants in the activities of the "Arab -African Cultural Relations, Future Vision" symposium "organized by General Union of Arab Writers, ...2.7

MAN: Ford Motor has officially entered Libya with the appointment of Shaheen Business and Investment Group as its importer responsible for sales, service and distribution and dealer network development in the ...4

The High Committee for Child Care in the Arab Republic of Libya had organized a contest in the art of drawing and artistic expression of children, under the name of .2.7

It remains a source of wonder to me how events get filtered in the public consciousness by press ... Dr Mifsud Bonnici had told her about the report sent by the Maltese government to Libyan leader Gaddafi regarding unknown planes flying over Maltese airspace to Libya.2

Elei Sinai, Gaza Strip - Jewish settler Avi Farhan, determined not to give up his home overlooking ... Farhan, a Libyan-born Jew who left Tripoli for Israel at the age of three in the wake of the 1948 ...2

Posted July 14, 2005, NEW YORK + Corinthia Hotels International, a Malta-based luxury chain that ... Cornithia's hotels are in Belgium, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Libya, Malta, Portugal, Russia, Gambia, Togo, Tunisia and Turkey.1.3

Some 50 Italian companies are represented at the Italian pavilion at this year's Malta International Trade Fair, which closes today.2.7

"The shores of Tripoli," both the words and the tune, are as familiar to most Americans as "Yankee ... Yussef Karamanli, the bashaw of Tripoli (a territory encompassing modern-day Libya), deemed the steady stream of gifts from the United States to be insufficient and in 1801 declared war.1.3

Daily News does not publish on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays ... Foreign affairs and international cooperation minister Mompati Merafhe said this in an interview at the on-going African Union (AU) Summit in Sirte, about 450km from the Libyan capital, Tripoli.3.1

Explore Libya's classical ruins and the nomad Berber culture on a 16-day tour of Libya with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The "Gloriagate" controversy is not bothering the Moro Islamic Liberation Front even as its chair, Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, had recently said peace is "partly at hand" under the Arroyo administration.2.7

Our client, an International Engineering & Construction Contractor is seeking Design Engineers for the Great Man Made River Programme.2