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The Security Council today extended for another year the United Nations mission assisting Libya, as preparations in the North African country turn to upcoming parliamentary elections due to be held in June.

"Our Constitution is in actual operation. Everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes ."

A tanker that loaded oil at a Libyan port held by rebels is still sailing in the Mediterranean Sea, a government minister said on Sunday, contradicting claims by the rebels that it had reached its destination.

Libya's ousted prime minister gave his first interview since he left the country, saying in the televised appearance aired Saturday that he doesn't recognize parliament's dismissal of him and will contest the decision he called invalid.

A referendum , an act of pure democracy in which the people choose what they want to do, in which people express their desires governing their own future in a free and fair manifestation of public will.

When US basketball player Alex Owumi signed a contract to play for a team in Benghazi, Libya, he had no idea that his employer was the the most feared man in the country.

In the resolution adopted today, the 15-member Council wrote that as an immediate priority, the UN Support Mission in Libya would ensure the success of the democratic transition process in the country, which has been under way since the toppling of Muammar al-Qadhafi three years ago.

CAIRO Confrontation deepened Sunday between Libya's weak central government and a rebel militia that has launched a brazen bid to sell crude oil and seize the profits for itself.

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While the world's attention has been focused on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, the conflict in Syria has continued unabated, and with it the suffering of the Syrian people.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdel-Atti said on Friday that men in military uniform took the 70 from their homes in Tripoli.

UN says Libya is Fueling Wars: Gulf and Western Powers Should be Held Accountable.

Blair's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan claimed the lives of more than 600 members of the armed services, and hundreds of thousands of civilians in those benighted countries When our boys finally come home from Afghanistan for Christmas, it will be the first time in 100 years that this country has not been at war.

North Korea on Thursday denied any responsibility for an oil tanker that loaded crude from a Libyan rebel-held port and fled the OPEC member state's attempt to seize it, saying the vessel that carried its flag was linked to an Egyptian firm.

The news that Libya's parliament dismissed Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from office on Wednesday after the government failed to stop armed groups in eastern Libya from exporting oil independently should not surprise anyone - over the past year, the country has slipped deeper into chaos.

Under the inept leadership of President Barack Obama and the bumbling diplomacy of Secretary of State John Kerry, the US is stumbling towards Cuban Missile Crisis redux.

Could there be a worse week for new revelations about the 1988 Lockerbie tragedy to be unveiled? The report claiming that Iran rather than Libya was the culprit in the atrocity should raise eyebrows around globe.

UN experts say arms trafficking from Libya following the fall of Moammar Gaddafi, is fueling conflict, insecurity and terrorism on several continents.

This month on the anticorruption front, a New York court orders two former Siemens executives to pay record civil penalties in a bribery case involving the company's Argentina business; Canada prosecutes former executives from an engineering giant for bribery in Libya; and a European chemical company pays nearly USD 50 million to settle bribery ... (more)

TRIPOLI, Libya - The ousted prime minister fled Libya to Europe after parliament voted him out, leaving behind a country that risks being torn apart as the fault line between its eastern and western regions broke open Wednesday to a degree unseen since the 2011 civil war that ousted longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi.