: The democratic transition in Libya has reached a “crucial stage”, said Italy’s Foreign Minister, Giulio Terzi, while opening the Italy-Libya economic forum in Rome today, Thursday. He underlined that the development of the relationship between Rome and Tripoli is linked to the evolution in Libya freed from Muammar Qaddafi’s regime. The Italian Foreign Minister added, addressing the delegation headed [ Read More ]
Libya’s oil ministry has reached agreement with the country’s army chief and defence and interior ministries to secure exporting terminals, Oil Minister Abdelbari Al-Arusi said, after several protests have caused shipping disruptions. Oil installations have become a focal point of protests in Libya and the administration is still struggling to impose order after the July elections in a divided country [ Read More ]
No Progress With The Benghazi Investigation 11/01/2013 11:26:00 Four months after a brutal assault on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi killed the ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, politicians in Washington are still railing over how diplomats were left vulnerable to attack. In an analysis of why the investigation is going nowhere TIME magazine referred to the political furore, which [ Read More ]
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Libyan former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi faces execution if he is not extradited by Libyan authorities to The Hague to stand trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC), his lawyers warned on Thursday. Senussi is wanted by the ICC on suspicion of orchestrating brutal reprisals during the 2011 uprising that led to the fall and death of Muammar Gaddafi, who [ Read More ]
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