20111211
Reuters
(Reuters) - Senior figures in Libya's new leadership have written a letter to the United Nations asking it to release funds still frozen three months after the country's civil war ended, the central bank chief said on Saturday.

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Mexico uncovered and stopped an international plot to smuggle late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi into the country using fake names and false papers, authorities said Wednesday.

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Militias outside the control of Libya's central government are holding vast stores of tanks, rockets and small arms in the city of Misrata, an arsenal that will test the ability of the country's new rulers to assert their authority.

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's eight children led lives ranging from security chief and U.N. goodwill ambassador to playboy and professional footballer, often earning reputations for extravagance and violence to rival their father's.

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Militias in the Libyan city of Misrata have built up a vast arsenal of weapons, presenting the country's new rulers with a test of their ability to assert their authority over disparate armed groups.

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Scores of Libyan judges and lawyers protested in Tripoli on Wednesday against lawless behavior in the capital by former rebel groups, whom they said should now leave the city and return to their home towns.

20111204
Reuters
(Reuters) - One local official was killed and a militia base reduced to ruins in a clash between rival armed groups near the Libyan capital, the latest flare-up of tension between militias that is destabilising the new Libya.

20111128
Reuters
(Reuters) - Several hundred Berbers marched into the courtyard of the Libyan prime minister's office Sunday to express their anger at the country's new cabinet, which does not include anyone from their large ethnic group.

20111128
Reuters
(Reuters) - Several hundred people from one of Libya's biggest ethnic minority groups pushed their way to the doors of the prime minister's office on Sunday to press their demands for greater representation.

20111127
Reuters
(Reuters) - About 100 Libyans surrounded a Tunisian passenger aircraft at one of the capital's airports Saturday, delaying its takeoff in a protest at the government.

20111127
Reuters
(Reuters) - Every revolution has its losers. Libya's new rulers, who swept to power three months ago in a revolt against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule, have promised the country a brighter future. In the biggest cities, celebratory gunfire and the war-cry "God is great" can still be heard daily.

20111127
Reuters
(Reuters) - Libyan tribal leaders met on Saturday in the hope of easing tensions between clans in a country where the new central government is still weak, weapons abound and rival militias sometimes lock horns.

20111127
Reuters
(Reuters) - About 100 Libyan women took to Tripoli's streets on Saturday in a silent march to demand more support from the country's new government for victims of rape during the eight-month war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.

20111127
Reuters
(Reuters) - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi stole ancient Roman artifacts when they fled Tripoli, bundled them into sacks and planned to sell them abroad, Libya's new rulers said on Saturday as they displayed the haul for the first time since its recovery.

20111126
Reuters
(Reuters) - Sudanese weapons and ammunition sent through Egypt helped Libya's former rebels oust Muammar Gaddafi and take control of the North African country, the head of Libya's interim ruling council said on Friday.

20111126
Reuters
(Reuters) - Libya's new oil minister is seen as the right kind of technocrat, deeply experienced yet not too closely tied to the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi, to help restore the OPEC member's economic lifeline after eight months of war.

20111126
Reuters
(Reuters) - After playing a central role in the revolt that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, members of Libya's long-oppressed Berber minority, known among themselves as Amazigh, thought they had finally won a voice.

20111126
Reuters
(Reuters) - One of the most senior figures in Libya's outgoing government has denounced its leaders as an unelected elite, supported by "money, arms and PR," and warned that 90 percent of Libya is politically voiceless.

20111126
Reuters
(Reuters) - The Libyan revolt that ousted Muammar Gaddafi has led to a shake-up of the OPEC member's main industry oil, ushering in a new set of faces, led by newly-appointed oil minister Abdulrahman Ben Yazza.