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Comment about "BP to start Libya offshore drilling in 2010 " Phone Name Comment 0 Friday, 30th October 2009 - 10:29CET BP to start Libya offshore drilling in 2010 BP will begin exploratory drilling next year on both its onshore and offshore concessions in Libya, the head of the company's operations in the North African country said.

BP Plc plans to start drilling its first well in Libya by the second half of next year, said Hugh McDowell, president and general manager of BP Exploration Libya.

Bruna Hamadi, the wife of Rachid, one of the two Swiss businessmen held in Libya, says she is ready to assume a more public role to secure their release A high-profile media campaign, foreign help, sanctions or quiet diplomacy a ' speculation is rife on how Switzerland should resolve its diplomatic tussle with Libya.

New York, NY - infoZine - The Libyan government should investigate allegations of sexual harassment in a state-run residence for women who had been orphaned instead of charging the journalist who reported the story with criminal defamation, Human Rights Watch said.

Under the auspices of Ahmed Al Dheeb, under secretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Omani Centre for Investment Promotion and Export Development in association with Bank Muscat hosted a seminar - - Exporting To Libya' - at the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry conference room yesterday.

As Libya continues with its political rehabilitation process, slowly coming in from the cold of international isolation, radio has been among the first sectors to feel the new breath of fresh air.

Representatives from around 30 companies are in Libya, visiting Tripoli, Misurata and Benghazi, to follow up on potential contracts.

Libyan leader Moamer Gadhafi may pitch his tent in a New Jersey suburb during a visit to the United Nations.

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi has apologised for the first time for the killing of a British policewoman shot from the Libyan embassy in London in 1984, in an interview released today.

Canadian travellers have been told they're not welcome in Libya, in an apparent reprisal for Canada's near tongue-lashing of Moammar Gadhafi.

A top Libyan minister, in remarks to the Zurich paper Neue Zuricher Zeitung Sunday, said that two Swiss nationals missing for weeks in Libya were "doing well" and rejected Swiss claims they had been kidnapped.

A fresh investigation could be held into the Lockerbie bombing, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported, citing an email from state prosecutors to British victims of the attack.

Libya plans to purchase over 20 warplanes from Russia. Moscow and Tripoli are currently in talks about the package of contracts, Interfax reports.

A 60-day limit for normalising relations between Switzerland and Libya ends on Tuesday, with no sign yet of the two Swiss hostages held by Tripoli.

Libyan Airlines will soon take delivery of its first ATR 42-500. Posted by at October 20, 2009 5:24 a.m. Comments There are currently no comments for this blog entry.

HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani being received by Libyan General Mustafa al-Kharubi, a member of Libya's Revolution Command Council, upon his arrival in Tripoli yesterday Tripoli: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani yesterday held a round of talks with Libyan leader Col Moammar Gaddafi.The talks dealt with bilateral ...

GENEVA: Swiss diplomats arrived in Libya Monday in a bid to rebuild diplomatic ties after a row erupted last year when a son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was arrested in a Geneva hotel.

COALITION senators have vigorously attacked the role being played by the former National Party leader Tim Fischer as ambassador to the Vatican, saying their one-time colleague could hardly find enough to keep himself occupied there.

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has not died, his Scottish lawyer and his brother said Wednesday.

ANY negotiations or settlements with Libyan officials over their supply of explosives to the IRA must be to the satisfaction of victims and relatives, it has been claimed.

Libya is planning to buy more than 20 Russian fighter jets in a billion-dollar arms deal with Moscow, the Interfax news agency reported Oct.

The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been named coordinator of a grouping of tribal, political and business leaders, a Libyan paper said on Friday -- making him the second most powerful figure in the country.

Libya has paid $1.5 billion into a fund for American victims of terrorism from the 1980s, the U.S. State Department said on Friday, removing the last big obstacle to a normal relationship between the two countries.

LONDON: A secret review of the killing of a British policewoman outside the Libyan Embassy in London in 1984 found two years ago that there was enough evidence to charge two Libyans, a report said Friday.

A delegation of MPs will visit Libya within weeks to discuss the compensation demands of IRA victims injured or killed by Semtex supplied by the Gaddafi regime.

LIBYA has freed 88 Islamists with al-Qaeda links from Abu Slim prison in Tripoli.

A secret report into the killing of Wpc Yvonne Fletcher concluded more than two years ago that there was enough evidence to charge two Libyan men in connection with the killing, it has been reported.

The Libyan government on Thursday released 88 members of radical Islamist groups jailed for plotting to topple the government of Muammar Gaddafi, the country's main charity said.

The motion - This House deplores the release of the Lockerbie bomber to Libya,' was carried with 53% votes at the first episode of the sixth series of Qatar Foundation's Doha Debates last night.

BRITISH interests "would be damaged, perhaps badly" if Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was allowed to die in a Scottish jail, David Miliband said today.

IAN Paisley Jr's apparent claim that PSNI officers in Libya were there to spy on the country has been rejected by the chairman of the Policing Board.

Switzerland rarely makes the evening news. That is mostly because nothing much ever happens in this genteel land of bankers and bureaucrats.

Ethiopia is working to free some 200 of its nationals who have been detained for two years in Libya, an Ethiopian government official said on Tuesday.

The Libyan government has replaced the head of the state oil company in a move that industry analysts say indicates Col.

Libya's state-run news agency says a Libyan fighter jet crashed into a house during an international air show in the country's capital, killing the pilot and the co-pilot. The JANA report says three people on the ground were wounded when the Soviet-designed MiG-23 jet crashed early Wednesday in an eastern suburb of Tripoli, destroying most of the ...

Tripoli - A Russian MiG-23 fighter jet crashed into a house in a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli on Wednesday, killing its two-man crew and injuring several people on the ground, witnesses said.

Switzerland rarely makes the evening news. That is mostly because nothing much ever happens in this genteel land of bankers and bureaucrats.

CAIRO [MENL] -- Libya has begun its annual aerospace exhibition. The North African state has launched Lavex-2009 in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration will travel to Moscow, Russia, and Tripoli, Libya, from October 5 to October 10, 2009.

The officials of The Omani Centre for Investment Promotion and Export Development are visiting Republic of Libya from October 3 to 8 to meet leading businessmen in Libya.

Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri accused Libya of torturing to death a militant whose confession was used to justify the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

Comment about "Al-Megrahi attacks Maltese shopkeeper's testimony" Phone Name Comment 0 Lockerbie disaster Al-Megrahi attacks Maltese shopkeeper's testimony Juan Ameen The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing yesterday published documents aimed at casting doubts on the credibility of a key Maltese witness.

Megrahi said: ''My only intention is for the truth to be made known.'' Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, was controversially freed from prison on compassionate grounds earlier this year to return to his native Libya .

CAGED in a filthy cell with more than 50 inmates, a North East oil worker today told of his Libyan jail hell.

Kampala Tripoli is not covertly working with Uganda's cultural leaders to undermine or topple the ruling NRM government, Libyan ambassador Abdalla Bujeldain has said.