20101025
africanews

Tunisia and Libya over the weekend signed an executive cooperation programme in Tunis in the domain of health, Tripoli post said.

20101023
africanews

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez arrived in Libya on Friday for talks expected to focus on boosting economic ties. Chavez met with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi shortly after landing in the capital of Tripoli.

20101015
africanews

The United States of America has taken another step forward in bilateral relations with Libya after Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew J. Shapiro travelled to the North African nation for consultations with officials from the government.

20101010
africanews

A Tripoli-based aircraft firm Libyan African Aviation Holding Company has ordered three regional jets worth $131.5 million from Bombardier Inc, a Canadian manufacturer of commercial aircraft.

20101001
africanews

After months of diplomatic tension between Libya and South Korea, sparked by accusations of spying on Muammar Gaddafi, both countries have agreed to renew ties once again.

20100919
reuters

VALLETTA (Reuters) - Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing "remains a sick man", although he is in better shape than might be expected, according to a victim's father who visited him in Tripoli.

20100918
reuters

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya has opened an investigation into an incident last week in which one of its patrol boats opened fire on an Italian fishing vessel and has also suspended the boat's captain, the foreign ministry said.

20100914
africanews

Libya has apologised for opening fire on an Italian fishing boat off its coast using a vessel supplied by Rome, Italy's interior minister said, promising an investigation into the incident. The shooting has embarrassed Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government, who has cultivated close ties with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and struck a deal with Tripoli to curb the arrival of African migrants into Italy.

20100830
africanews

Gaddafi causes upset in Italy Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's attempt to convert dozens of young women to Islam during a visit to Italy led to an angry reaction from Italian media. Gaddafi invited a large group of young women hired by a hostessing agency to an event at a Libyan cultural centre in Rome on Sunday and tried to convert them to Islam.

20100829
reuters

ROME (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi arrived in Rome on Sunday for a two-day visit that has aroused a mixture of curiosity and controversy over Tripoli's growing influence in the Italian economy.

20100820
reuters

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya kept a low profile on Friday after Britain warned against any repeat of the celebrations a year ago that greeted the release of a Libyan intelligence agent convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

20100809
reuters

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Libya's government announced it will pay compensation to some people it had wrongfully imprisoned, the latest step in an effort to draw a line under a history of human rights abuses.

20100809
reuters

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Libya has freed an Israeli photographer held by its security services for five months, as part of a secret Austrian-mediated deal involving aid for the blockaded Gaza Strip, an Israeli official said on Monday.

20100808
reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland launched a scathing attack on U.S. politicians on Sunday saying they were in no moral position to lecture Scottish ministers over the Lockerbie bomber's release.

20100727
africanews

France's government vowed to step up the fight against Al-Qaeda in northern Africa after militants killed a French hostage in the Sahel desert region. "The fight against terrorism continues and it is going to strengthen, particularly against AQMI," Prime Minister Francois Fillon told Europe 1 radio.

20100716
reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - The Scottish government denied on Friday it had any contact with oil firm BP before its decision last year to release the Libyan man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing.

20100716
reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Britain may wish to explain the circumstances leading to last year's release of a Libyan convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and what role, if any, BP Plc may have played, to U.S. lawmakers investigating the matter, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.

20100705
reuters

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya is allowing more than 260 prisoners from neighbouring Niger to return home on Monday, Libyan state news agency Jana reported.

20100613
bbc

A Swiss businessman, held in a Libyan jail for four months, has arrived back in Zurich.

20100610
Afrol

The UN refugee agency UNHCR today confirmed it was entering into dialogue with the government of Libya to avoid closing its activities in the important transit country, following a leave order on Tuesday.