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Anti-Gadhafi Gunmen Lift Siege Of Ministries

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Gunmen demanding the expulsion of Gaddafi Era Officials from Libya’s New Government appear to have lifted their siege of both ministries in Tripoli. Justice Minister Salah al-Marghani informed BBC the siege had ended at both his ministry and the foreign ministry. The gunmen blocked the buildings two weeks...

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Libya: Defence Minister Barghathi Retracts Resignation

Libya’s defense minister has rescinded his resignation. The army’s chief of staff, however, was sacked as the country’s political problems...

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Egyptian Police Arrest Gaddafi’s Cousin Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam

Close aide and relative of the late Libyan leader, Col Muammar Gaddafi has been arrested by Egyptian authorities. Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam was Tripoli’s...

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Libya Lifts Gaddafi-era Travel Bans

Libya has dropped arrest warrants and trip restrictions slapped by the toppled administration of Muammar Gaddafi versus the murdered dictator’s opponents,...

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Libyan ex-PM’s Trial to Open Today

The trial of Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, late Muammar Gaddafi’s last prime minister, will open in the Libyan capital today, the public prosecutor’s...

Who pocketed Gaddafi’s billions? The USA?

NATO’s military campaign in Libya is remarkable, among other things, for the following two reasons. First – the damage that the air raids by the...

Breaking: Romney slams Obama over attacks on US officials in Libya, Egypt

Protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and pulled down the American flag during a protest over what they said was a film produced in...

American killed in Libya during protests over video

A State Department officer was killed after armed protesters stormed the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, furious about an amateur video that has been...

Libyan Govt. arrests 32 Gaddafi loyalists

The Libyan authorities say they have arrested 32 members of a network loyal to former leader Muammar Gaddafi in connection with Sunday’s twin car bombing in the capital, Tripoli. Two people were killed by the two blasts near the former military academy for women and the interior ministry. An official of Libya’s top security body said the network had been linked to...

Libya’s NTC hands power to newly elected assembly

NTC chief Mustafa Abdul Jalil passed the reins to the oldest member of the legislative body at a late-night ceremony in the capital, Tripoli. The NTC, which was formed during last year’s revolt, has now been dissolved.Crowds in central Tripoli celebrated the first peaceful transition of power in Libya’s modern history. The Assembly held its first meeting straight...