s son arrives from Niger to face corruption charges as delegates meet in Rome to discuss Libya's future Saadi Gaddafi, one of Muammar Gaddafi's most flamboyant sons, has been extradited from Niger to stand trial in Libya in what will be seen as a major coup for Tripoli. Photographs showing the 40-year-old in blue prison garb having his head shaved were posted on social media on Thursday morning hours...
Saadi Gaddafi, son of toppled Libyan Prime Minister Muammar Gaddafi, has been extradited from Niger to Libya ...
Government says former ruler’s son has been transferred from Niger on charges of embezzlement and making armed threats ...
s authors call on governments and international tribunals to give greater protection to education, and say the UN, regional peacekeepers and all sides in conflicts should refrain from using schools or universities for military purposes. In 24 countries, researchers found that armed forces – both state and non-state – used school buildings as bases, weapons caches, prisons and even torture chambers,...
s capital, killing all 11 crew and passengers on board, Tunisian authorities said. Libyan media are reporting that a jihadist leader is among the dead. Sheikh Daouedi held an official post as Libya's assistant secretary of state for martyrs, and was on the military flight to seek medical treatment in Tunis. The Antonov aircraft went down after the pilot tried to land in farmland near Grombalia, south...
s future by laying out the rights and duties of citizens, protecting minorities, defining the legal system and deciding on the form of government. But the problem is that each institutional innovation since 2011 has been accompanied by hopes that it would lead to a normal and, above all, a truly national political life, and none have made much difference. The hard truth is that power in Libya has been...
s tale of the European immigrant experience Did Catherine Keener not sleep for weeks before shooting her role as Lee, the traumatised photographer on the run from personal tragedy in this drama by Mark Jackson? Because boy, does she look exhausted. Holed up in a Sicilian hotel, bruised and twitchy and ignoring the ringing phone, Lee is given a remarkably black and nervy energy by Keener, her whole...
s spokesman, Adel al-Ghiryani, said that Hadiya, also known as Abu Ubeida al-Libi, had travelled to Egypt for medical reasons but was detained there. Ghiryani also denied his group was involved in the kidnapping of the Egyptians. An Egyptian security official said authorities had detained Hadiya because he was the guest of the country's Muslim Brotherhood group, which has been declared a terrorist...
We must encourage education and tolerance if we are to bring about peace in the Middle East and the rest of the world The last weeks have seen a ghastly roll call of terror attacks in the obvious places: Syria, Libya, Iraq and Lebanon, as well as Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and Pakistan. Also suffering are places where we have only in recent years seen such violence: Nigeria, and in many parts of central...
s Revolutionaries, said on Friday its leader, Shaban Hadia, had been arrested in Egypt, where he had travelled with his family for medical treatment. Another of the group...
s prime minister, Ali Zeidan, has vowed to stay at his post after five Islamist ministers quit his government in protest at persistent lawlessness in the country. Following three weeks of wrangling over a censure motion against Zeidan, the Islamists failed to secure the 120 votes required to pass it in the 194-member general national congress. Zeidan accused the Justice and Construction party – the...
Mohamed Karah becomes latest official to be killed in Libya, dying from a gunshot wound to the head, say security sources A chief of staff in the Libyan army has been killed in clashes with gangs south of Tripoli, according to Libyan security sources. Mohamed Karah died on Sunday from a gunshot wound to the head, after participating in an offensive against gangs who had been stealing cars and blocking...
Tom Rogan: Shrill politics is preventing good decision making, and doing a disservice to honorable Americans like Ambassador Stevens Tom Rogan ...
emails to anti-Gaddafi rebel Abdel Hakim Belhaj lays bare principle of open justice It was an extraordinary hour of courtroom drama. The UK's most secretive court had behaved unjustifiably in refusing to hear one of the parties to a complaint – and its members knew it. The only person who could get the court off the hook it had fashioned for itself was the very advocate who, even now, was laying into...
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s most secretive court has held a rare public hearing following claims that it was slow to examine allegations that GCHQ has been spying on lawyers representing victims of a UK-Libyan rendition operation. The investigatory powers tribunal agreed to the hearing only after the lawyers mounted high court proceedings to force the tribunal to order that the fruits of any such surveillance be withheld from...
s refugee agency, the UNHCR, in southern Europe said the agency had sent a letter of protest last week to judicial authorities in Sicily over what it said amounted to a prolonged detention of people in urgent need of assistance. In one of the worst tragedies of its kind in the Mediterranean, more than 300 Eritreans died when the boat carrying them from Libya caught fire and sank off the coast of Lampedusa...
Shooting of Hassan al-Droui, deputy industry minister, is first assassination of a member of transitional government since Gaddafi ouster ...
family. De Salis, who had been working in Tripoli, Libya, for six years, was remembered as a "decent and incredibly loyal man". A statement released through the Foreign Office said: "The family of Mark De Salis are shocked and devastated to hear about Mark's death in Libya. Mark had been working in Tripoli in Libya for six years. He worked for First Engineering and was currently working as a power...
Security official says military troops have two members of al-Helal basketball team at University of Benghazi campus A Libyan security official says military troops have detained two Americans in Benghazi. The official says the two Americans are basketball players and members of the city's al-Helal team. He says they were detained late on Thursday at the University of Benghazi campus. The official...