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Police say the man who killed two people at a Maryland mall in January had no connection with his victims and may have had a fixation with the 1999 Columbine High School shooting.

Reporters Without Borders reiterates its dismay at the environment in which journalists have to operate in Libya.

One of the problems plaguing Libya is its lack of reliable leadership since 2011 - current PM Ali Zeidan was ousted from power just last night, throwing the country into even more disarray.

Libya's parliament ousted Western-backed Prime Minister Ali Zidan in a Tuesday vote, removing the first democratically chosen leader who had struggled for 15 months to stem the country's spiraling descent into chaos, with divisive political power struggles and rampant militias out of the control of the weak central government.

San Francisco firefighters prevented a five-alarm fire from spreading from a condominium construction site to nearby buildings on Tuesday.

Former Libyan prime minister Ali Zeidan was in Malta for two hours late on Tuesday on a refueling stop before going to "another European country", Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told state-owned television TVM.

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Ali Zeidan has been criticized, opposed, and even briefly kidnapped since taking office as interim prime minister in October 2012.

TRIPOLI: The Libyan parliament ousted Prime Minister Ali Zeidan on Tuesday and named the defense minister as caretaker premier until a permanent replacement has been approved, MPs said.

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A North Korean-flagged tanker that loaded crude oil at a rebel-held port in eastern Libya is now in international waters, rebels at the harbor and a state oil company official said on Tuesday.

TERRORISTS hired by Iran were responsible for the Lockerbie bombing, according to a documentary which will air for the first time today.

As a onetime foreign correspondent who wrote from places like Northern Ireland, Iran, Pakistan, India, Vietnam and the Philippines, I see the riots in Cairo, the assassination in Benghazi and the friction in U.S-Israeli relations as part of one picture: a portrait of the Middle Eastern world preparing for war between Iran and Israel.

Libya has been named as the primary source of the illegal weapons trade that is fueling conflicts in at least 14 countries around the world, a final report from the UN's independent panel on Libya's sanctions announced.

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early Saturday morning, leaving the fates of the 239 people aboard in doubt.

The Smithsonian Board of Regents on Monday named Cornell University President Dr. David Skorton to lead the world's largest museum and research complex in the nation's capital.

Libyan authorities said Monday they had stopped a North Korean-flagged tanker as it tried to leave with an "illegal" shipment of crude oil from a rebel-held port.

Libyan authorities stopped a North Korean-flagged tanker as it left a rebel-held port on Monday with an "illegal" shipment of crude, a military source said.

Libya 's government vowed to prevent a tanker from leaving a rebel-held oil port as it struggles to reassert control over the nation's main source of revenue.