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/ 28 November 2010
The diary of a Roman model has provided a compelling insight into bizarre "cultural visits" arranged by Colonel Moammar Gadaffi.
Months after reluctantly handing over the AU presidency, Libya’s Moammar Gadaffi has tried once again to stamp his authority on the body’s agenda.
Israel on Sunday vowed to prevent a Libyan aid ship from running the Gaza blockade after it appeared to be heading for the besieged enclave.
Steve Irwin crew throws rotten butter during confrontation with Italian and Libyan fishermen over endangered bluefin tuna catch.
Libya has ordered the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, to close its operations there, a UN spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Relatives of some of the South Africans killed in the Libya air crash this week will begin the difficult task of identifying remains on Friday.
Eleven people with ties to South Africa have so far been identified as among the victims of the Afriqiyah Airways crash in Tripoli.
A nine-year-old Dutch boy, the sole survivor of the Tripoli plane crash that killed 103 people, lost his parents and brother in the accident.
Doctors say the boy who miraculously survived a plane crash that killed 103 people in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, is in satisfactory condition.
It was reported on Thursday that at least nine South Africans died when a Libyan plane crashed while landing on Wednesday morning.
The brother of DA MP Anchen Dreyer, Frans Dreyer, has been identified as one of four South African passengers who died in the Libyan air crash.
The SA government is working through the passenger list of a plane that crashed in Libya to verify if there were South Africans aboard.
Airbus has confirmed that an Airbus flying from Johannesburg crashed in Tripoli, Libya, on Wednesday morning.
A Libyan plane arriving from SA crashed on Wednesday at Tripoli airport, killing all 105 people on board, it was reported.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi has suggested that Nigeria be broken up into several states along ethnic lines like the former Yugoslavia.
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/ 22 February 2010
Libyan police surrounded the Swiss embassy in Tripoli on Monday after issuing a deadline for Switzerland to hand over two nationals.
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/ 31 January 2010
One of the world’s most respected clerics is to put pressure on the Libyan government to reveal what it knows about a political activist.
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/ 3 December 2009
Libya has struck a blow in its spat with Switzerland by sentencing two businessmen to jail in apparent retaliation for the arrest of Gadaffi’s son.
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/ 12 November 2009
Two Swiss businessmen prevented from leaving Libya for more than a year will be tried for tax evasion and visa irregularities, Libya said on Thursday.
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/ 26 October 2009
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi said ”we are sorry” for the 1984 killing of a British policewoman outside the Libyan embassy in London.
Britain secretly offered to pay £14-million pounds to Libya as a part of a deal to end its support for the IRA, said a report on Monday.
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/ 23 September 2009
Moammar Gadaffi pitched his tent on an estate belonging to Donald Trump in suburban New York on Tuesday, according to reports.
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/ 22 September 2009
Wednesday brings excruciating embarrassment for the United Nations. It will honour the worst man left in the world.
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/ 21 September 2009
The EU should demand that Italy stop forcing African migrant boats back to Libya, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
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/ 15 September 2009
Shokri Ghanem has left his post as chairperson of Libya’s state oil firm, confirmed a source in the country’s Parliament.
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/ 15 September 2009
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi’s reformist son is trying to use the homecoming of the Lockerbie bomber to boost his waning prestige.
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/ 8 September 2009
Saif al-Islam al-Gadaffi, the Libyan leader’s second son, is a powerful mover and shaker in Libya and abroad, despite occupying no official position.
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/ 7 September 2009
Libya will not pay compensation to the families of people killed by Irish republican bombs they say were made using Libyan-supplied explosives.
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/ 2 September 2009
Gordon Brown said on Wednesday his government had put no pressure on Scotland to release the Lockerbie bomber to improve trade links with Libya.
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/ 2 September 2009
Libya’s celebrations marking Moammar Gadaffi’s four decades in power got off to a spectacular start on Wednesday with a colourful extravaganza.
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/ 1 September 2009
Libya launched a week of lavish events on Tuesday celebrating Moammar Gadaffi’s 40 years in power despite a near total boycott by Western leaders.
Delegates from the 52 countries that make up the African Union gathered on Monday to address their continent’s crises during a one-day summit.