Libya News

As SA prepares for the funeral of former president Nelson Mandela, a report has revealed a "strained relationship" that existed between the struggle icon and Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.

A search is on in the mountains of rural northwestern Nevada for a couple and four children who went to play in the snow Sunday and haven't returned.

A training seminar on the treatment of wounds caused by mines, bullets, shrapnel and other weapons closes today in Benghazi.

A U.N. nuclear team will visit Libya this month to assess the safety of thousands of barrels of milled uranium - known as yellowcake - amid concerns about the country's deteriorating security situation, a U.N. official said on Monday.

Torture and ill-treatment were routinely used by the state to terrorize the Libyan people under al-Gaddafi's brutal rule.

Writing at his "West Tripoli" blog, Mohamed al-Hefiyan warned in a post named "Road to Kandahar" that the ongoing conflict between Islamist fighters and army forces could lead to a Taliban-like regime in Libya.

TRIPOLI: Libya has lost more than $7bn and faces new competition from Algeria and Nigeria in oil markets due to strikes at oilfields and ports drying up exports, Oil Minister Abdelbari Al Arusi said.

Since the fall of Moammar Gaddafi, Libya has been ruled by chaos. Only a month ago Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was briefly kidnapped.

This report is the result of Timetric's extensive market research covering the life Insurance market in Libya.

One person was killed and five wounded in Libya's eastern city Benghazi on Sunday when a car bomb exploded at a funeral for an assassinated army officer, security and medical sources said.

African migrants wait for work in Tripoli that might pay eventually to take them to Lampedusa in Italy.

Tuesday's hearing held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on the 2012 Benghazi attack presented a third round of eyewitness testimony from the fateful night of September 11 to 12 of year.

A Petro Air Embraer ERJ-170, registration 5A-SOC performing a test flight from Tripoli Mitiga to Tripoli Mitiga with 2 crew, overran the end of runway 29. There were no injuries, the aircraft received minor if any damage.

"We need to make a range of arrangements to restore Derna to its normal condition with the presence of army and police, to open army centres and support the security directorate.

The 33-year-old educator from Austin, Texas, was gunned down Thursday as he went on a morning jog outside his home in the Libyan city of Benghazi.

Libyan officials say an American teacher has been shot to death while jogging in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi.

Researchers say the official noisemakers for next year's World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil will be significantly quieter than the vuvuzela horns that caused so many headaches in 2010.

Researchers say the official noisemakers for next year's World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil will be significantly quieter than the vuvuzela horns that caused so many headaches in 2010.

Around 300 Islamists took to the streets of the Libyan port of Benghazi on Friday demanding the fall of the government and an end to strikes and sit-ins stopping crude exports - the first sign of public opposition to the blockades in the oil-rich east.

TRIPOLI: Masked gunmen abducted the representative of the Tunisian national carrier in southern Libya on Friday before releasing him several hours later, a local source said.