20120324 AFP The UN Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution urging Libya's new rulers to probe all alleged abuses, but threw out a Russian proposal calling for a halt to arbitrary detentions.
20120324 AFP Libya has restored full diplomatic relations with Iraq and plans to send an ambassador to Baghdad more than eight years after cutting off ties, Iraq's deputy foreign minister said Friday.
20120321 AFP Libyan schoolgirls stroll the streets of the close-knit neighbourhood of Arada without a second glance at the pile of rubble that was once a house for four families before NATO explosives blew it apart.
20120319 Reuters NATO has failed to properly investigate or provide compensation for civilian deaths caused by its air strikes during the seven-month operation in Libya that helped bring about the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, Amnesty International said on Monday.
20120319 Press TV Press TV journalists, Nicholas Davies and Gareth Montgomery-Johnson, who were held by Libyan militia for less than a month, have been freed, AFP reports, citing the Libyan Interior Ministry.
20120319 Press TV The Libyan government is faced with increasing difficulties in trying to promote security throughout the country, as the number of newly formed armed militia groups grows, Press TVreports.
20120317 AFP Backers and opponents of federalism clashed in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday with guns, rocks and knives, amid conflicting reports on casualties.
20120311 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Libya's two biggest cities on Friday in a show of opposition to moves from some in the oil-producing east to declare autonomy from central rule.
20120310 AFP Investigators probing violations during Libya's conflict said Friday they are giving the UN's human rights chief a list of people who should face international or national justice.
20120306 AFP Thousands of Libyans massed in the eastern city of Benghazi on Monday for the burial of 163 people whose bodies were found in a mass grave, an AFP journalist said.
20120306 AFP A Libyan official said Monday the detention by a militia of two British journalists working for Iran's English-Language Press TV defied the wishes of the interior ministry, which wants them freed.
20120305 Reuters (Reuters) - Two British journalists working for Iran's Press TV who were detained late last month in Libya are suspected of being spies, the head of the militia which is holding them said on Sunday.
20120305 Reuters (Reuters) - Libya's stock exchange is to re-open on March 15, just over a year after the country's conflict forced it to close down, the head of the bourse said on Sunday.
20120305 AFP Australia on Monday said it was "appalled and disgusted" by the desecration of Commonwealth war graves in Libya and was working to determine whether its own soldiers' headstones had been affected.
20120304 AFP Libyan Islamists and independents on Saturday formed a new political party, electing as its leader a Muslim Brotherhood member who was a political prisoner under the regime of dead dictator Moamer Kadhafi.
20120303 AFP Libyan forces who battled Moamer Kadhafi's troops in 2011 committed war crimes and are still targeting alleged backers of the dead dictator and minority groups, a draft United Nations report published on Friday said.
20120228 AFP As Libyans set about rebuilding their nation one year after the outbreak of a revolt that toppled Moamer Kadhafi, thousands of immigrants are trapped in makeshift detention centres, denied the chance to work, but with no way home.
20120221 AFP Fierce clashes between two tribes in Libya's remote southeastern desert have killed more than 100 people over the past 10 days, tribal sources said on Tuesday.
20120221 AFP Residents of the battle-scarred town of Misrata voted on Monday to elect their local council, in Libya's first poll in more than 40 years and held four months after the killing of Moamer Kadhafi.
