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| Libya Elected to UN Security Council |
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Libya has been elected to nonpermanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the years 2008-09 on Tuesday citing support of the African Union and good relations with Washington.
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| Putin Tells US Not to Attack Iran |
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President Vladimir Putin has said "We should not even think of using force in this region" and made clear to Washington that Russia would not accept military action against Iran and he invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Moscow for talks.
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| Lockerbie Victim's Father Offers Half Million Sterling for the Defence of Al-Megrahi |
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The father of a Lockerbie bombing victim made an astonishing £500,000 offer to help free Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Libyan accused of his daughter's murder.
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| Libya Looks Certain to be Elected to UN Security Council |
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Libya is most likely to be elected this week to the UN Security Council. Libya faces not contest as it and Burkina Faso have been endorsed by the African Union for the two Africa seats that will fall due for the period 2008-2009.
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| Iraqi Resistance Fighters Form a United Political Council |
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Six main Iraqi insurgent groups announced the formation of a "political council" aimed at "liberating" Iraq from U.S. occupation in a video aired Thursday on Al-Jazeera television, the Associated Press reported.
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| Bulgarian Medics: We have No Right to Ask for Compensation from Libya |
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Speaking in Brussels to reporters after a visit to the European Parliament, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who infected 438 Libyan children with HIV in a Benghazi children hospital said they waived their right to seek redress from Libya upon their release from prison in July said they "Yes, we signed such papers," Dr Ashraf al-Hazouz told journalists at the European Parliament, where the group attended meetings with the assembly's political groups and president.
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| EU Seeking Quick Start to Cooperation Talks With Libya |
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European Union foreign ministers are to call for a quick start to talks with Libya on a cooperation agreement covering a wide area from trade to migration, according to draft documents seen by Reuters.
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| Young Libyans Harvest Top Qur'an Recitation Prizes around the Islamic World |
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The General Authority of Endowment and Alms Affairs has announced that Libyan students of Qur'an have achieved prominence in the many competitions held in Arab and Muslim countries during the holy month of Ramadan.
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| Turkish PM to Ask Parliament Approval for Iraq Incursion |
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Turkey's prime minister will ask parliament to authorize a military push into north Iraq to fight Kurdish rebels amid Turkish anger on Thursday at a US vote branding Ottoman Turk killings of Armenians genocide.
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| Spanish FM: Education Key to Fighting Islamophobia in Europe |
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Islamophobia gathered pace in the West with the end of the Cold War, long before the September 11, 2001 attacks against the US, participants at a two-day OSCE conference that began in Spain Tuesday said.
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| Gaddafi Tells Old Comrades They should Take Part in Running the Country |
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Gaddafi tells his comrades, Al-Rifaq, to contact each other and prepare for taking part in running the government so they again as they prepared for the revolution in the 1960s can today do their part in solving the country’s problems.
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| CIA Reportedly Offered $2m to Lockerbie Witness |
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The American CIA offered $2m to the Crown's key witness in the Lockerbie trial and his brother, the British electronic newspaper, theherald.co.uk said quoting sources close to the case.
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| Elder Statesmen Call for Rapid Deployment of Darfur Peacekeepers |
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A group of elder statesmen led by South African Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu, on a mission to foster peace in Sudan, called on Thursday for the rapid deployment of a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur.
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| Libya Mediates Chad Govt., Rebels Peace Deal |
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Libya-mediated peace talks in Tripoli have yielded a provisional deal between the Chadian government and several armed rebel groups, senior officials in the Chadian capital said.
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| Hamas Warns of Catastrophic Gaza Medicine Shortage |
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Hamas warned on Thursday of a humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip which it has run for more than three months due to a dire shortage of basic medical supplies.
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