CAIRO : The cousin and former aide of slain Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi appeared in court on Monday charged with the attempted murder of Egyptian police officers, an AFP reporter said.Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam denied the charges which also included possessing unlicensed weapons and resisting arrest.The ...

TRIPOLI:Libya’s General National Congress, under pressure from militiamen, on Sunday voted through a controversial law to exclude former regime officials from government posts, a move that could see the premier removed from office. Gunmen who had surrounded the foreign and justice ministries ...

ZINTAN,Libya: Saif al-Islam, a son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, appeared in court on Thursday in the town ofZintan, where he had been held since his capture by former rebels in November 2011. Saif al-Islam, at the centre of a legal tussle betweenLibyaand the International Criminal ...

LahoreS 'Ufone-PCB King of Speed' trials for emerging young fast bowlers were held here at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore, which was the last destination of trials for round one. The Ufone–PCB ‘King of speed’ received outstanding response in Lahore as more than 2,500 young fast ...

BENGHAZI (AFP) - A Moamer Gaddafi-era security official has been killed in Libya’s second city Benghazi, local officials said Saturday, in the latest attack highlighting a lack of security in the east of the country. “Lieutenant-Colonel Nasser al-Magrabi was found dead on his farm last ...

TRIPOLI - Libyan officials on Saturday announced the arrest of Mussa Ibrahim, the last spokesman of Moamer Gaddafi, after warning the country was still not fully “liberated” one year after the strongman’s death. “Mussa Ibrahim was arrested at a checkpoint in the town of ...

TRIPOLI  - Slain leader Moamer Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam will go on trial next month in the Libyan town of Zintan, a prosecution official said Thursday, despite an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant. “A committee from the prosecutor general’s office has completed ...

SIRTE  - Residents of Sirte are gearing up to vote in Saturday’s Libyan election, hoping it will help bring prosperity to the war-battered hometown of slain dictator Moammar Gaddafi and erase his legacy.“This is the first step towards security and prosperity of Sirte in the new ...

ANDREW GREENThere’s a place in Africa where Col Muammar al-Gaddafi is still king, but it’s a long way from his unmarked grave deep in the Libyan desert. To get there, you have to travel south through the searing plains of Darfur and the scrubby brush of South Sudan and across the ...

One by one, revelations from the ransacked archives of the old Gaddafi regime in Libya cast fresh doubts on Britain’s boast that it is never complicit in torture. First we heard the claims of the former Libyan dissident Abdelhakim Belhaj who maintains that Jack Straw, as Foreign Secretary, ...

NOUAKCHOTT  - Libya said Wednesday Mauritania had agreed to hand over Muammar Gaddafi’s former spy chief for trial on home soil, turning down rival extradition requests from France and a war crimes court. “We have obtained an agreement from Mauritania to deliver (Abdullah) Senussi ...

NOUAKCHOTT  - Libya's vice-premier said Monday his country was determined to have Muammar Gaddafi's ex-spy chief, also wanted by the International Criminal Court, extradited to stand trial on home soil. "We are determined to get (Abdullah) Senussi back, because this man has committed crimes ...

BANI WALID, Libya  - Diehard supporters of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Gaddafi seized control Monday of Bani Walid in a brazen attack on his one-time bastion that killed five people, officials told AFP.The assault on a base of former rebels who helped oust Gaddafi was the first major ...

THE HAGUE - The Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi possessed mustard gas shells which it had not declared as a member of the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons, the OPCW said Friday. A team of OPCW inspectors had visited Libya this week to check a stock of weapons discovered by the ...

John Swinton, the doyen of the New York press corps, upon his retirement, made the following speech: There is no such thing, at this stage of the worlds history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you ...

After four decades of brutal dictatorship and eight months of deadly conflict, the Libyan people can now celebrate their freedom and the beginning of a new era of promise, President Obama said last week. The capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi prompted him and other US officials to congratulate ...

Was he a mad dog as Ronald Reagan dubbed him, or the King of Kings as some leaders of African nations crowned him, or Brotherly Leader and Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, as he named himself in 1972? Whichever title describes him ...

NIAMEY (AFP) - Muammar Gaddafis son Saif al-Islam and his former intelligence chief, the two most wanted fugitives from the slain despots ousted regime, were poised Tuesday to cross the border into Niger, a Tuareg official said. The pair, wanted by the International Criminal Court, had been ...

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's new Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said Sunday that the reputation of Libya's new leaders had been "stained" by the killing of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Hammond urged an investigation into the death of Gaddafi, who was captured alive during the fall of his hometown ...

During the late evening of 10/20/11 the White House, the Office of the Secretary of State, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Libyan Embassy in Washington, DC received a faxed communication from an American organised international legal team currently preparing their departure to ...

SIRTE, Libya (AFP) - Anti-Gaddafi fighters launched an all-out assault on Wednesday against the ousted strongmans remaining holdouts, now pinned into a small corner of his hometown Sirte. The fighting was concentrated in the outer streets of Sirtes Number Two neighbourhood, with both sides trading ...

SIRTE (AFP) - Fighters of Libya's new regime launched a fresh assault on the desert oasis of Bani Walid on Sunday as fighting died down in the city of Sirte, the other main holdout of Moamer Gaddafi diehards. "We have resumed combat operations and we have advanced from the northern front as well as ...

Interpol put ousted Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi's son al-Saadi on the equivalent of its most-wanted list on Thursday, and said he was last seen in Niger. The international police agency said in a statement that it has issued a red notice for al-Saadi Gaddafi, based on a request by the National ...

LIBYA (AFP) - Fighters of Libyas interim rulers brandished new weapons Tuesday outside the oasis town of Bani Walid, where residents were fleeing fearing clashes with forces of Muamer Gaddafi. Talks were underway through mediators for the surrender of Gaddafi diehards but so far there is no result, ...

BENGHAZI (AFP) - Moamer Gaddafis forces launched surprise fightbacks on three fronts Monday, even as a son of the fallen Libyan strongman fled to Niger along with more than 30 others from his inner circle. The ferocious counterattacks on a Ras Lanuf oil refinery, near Gaddafis hometown of Sirte and ...

Muammar Gaddafi has issued an audio message encouraging Libyans to take up arms against the fighters battling his loyalists and accusing the National Transitional Council (NTC), currently running the country, of being a front for Western powers. The message from the deposed Libyan leader was ...

Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is believed to be in the desert town of Bani Walid about 150 (95 miles) southeast of Tripoli, a top military commander of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Thursday. Abdel Majid Mlegta, coordinator of the Tripoli military operations ...

A woman has captured Colonel Gaddafi - in Plasticine. Leicester-born artist Karen Caldicott, 51, who now lives in New York, makes famous faces from the childs play putty. Her work also includes eight inch-high sculptures of Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Hillary Clinton and Apple boss Steve Jobs. ...

Watching from afar as Moammar Gaddafis control crumbles in Libya, I was reminded of the events of March 1974. Its hard to remember today, but there was a time when the Libyan leader commanded great respect in the Middle East, and that spring he was at the height of his power. The mercurial ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Moamer Gaddafi's forces fired a Scud missile from the stronghold of Sirte on Sunday but the weapon landed in the desert without causing any casualties, a US defence official said Monday. "We think it was targeted at Brega," a town southwest of Benghazi that is now partially under ...