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| Libya Ex-Rebels Deny Attempt to Kill Army Officer, Say Ready to Withdraw If Government Protects Facilities in Tripoli |
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Libyan ex-rebels have denied attempts to kill a senior army officer, saying the national army does not even exist and has no vital role in the process of protecting strategic facilities in the capital or on the Libyan borders.
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| UN Climate Meeting Approves Landmark Deal |
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At the end of a marathon session, a United Nations climate conference in Durban, South Africa, reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a complex and far-reaching programme meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change for the coming decades.
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| Polluters Won, People Lost Greenpeace Africa Says |
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On the closing of the latest round of UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa, Greenpeace today declared that it was clear that our Governments this past two weeks listened to the carbon-intensive polluting corporations instead of listening to the people who want an end to our dependence on fossil fuels and real and immediate action on climate change.
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| Libya: Over a 100 Surgeons to Hone Skills |
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More than 100 surgeons will enhance their skills treating gunshot- and blast-wounded patients in a seminar that will be held at the Abu Salim Hospital in Tripoli December 12 to 14. The training is being co-organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Libya’s Ministry of Health.
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| Libya Ready to Forgive Fighters Who Fought on Al Qathafi's Side |
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The head of Libya's National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil said Saturday that the Libyan authorities are ready to forgive the forces who fought on the former dictator Muammar Al Qathafi's side during the conflict that eventually toppled his autocratic regime.
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| NATO Praises Success in Libya, Says It would Provide Assistance when Tripoli Asks for It |
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At the NATO foreign ministerial meeting in Brussels held December 7-8, the alliance's Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed NATO's success in Libya, saying in his opening remarks on the first day of the meetings that “the Libyan people can now look to their future with hope.”
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| Tunisia Assembly Adopts Provisional Constitution |
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Five days after a tumultuous debate, and a month and a half after its first post-revolution election, Tunisia's 217-member constituent assembly has adopted a provisional constitution that will allow the country to name a government.
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| Military Trying to Undercut Egypt Elected Legislators Authority |
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist that successfully got the people's vote in the recent elections and is set to dominate the new parliament, is accusing the country's military rulers of trying to undercut the authority of elected legislators even before the house is seated.
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| Australian FM Predicts Promising Future for Libya |
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At the end of a day-long visit to the Libyan capital, Tripoli, where he met the country's new leaders, Australian foreign minister Kevin Rudd said he was surprised to find a calm Tripoli and predicted a "promising" future for Libya.
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| All But Britain Agree to Join New EU Treaty |
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In the hope of solving Europe's debt crisis, on Friday, 26 of the 27 member countries - including the 17 in the Eurozone, are to join EU's ambitious treaty tying their finances together. But opposition led by Britain's prime minister, David Cameron created a deep rift in the union.He vetoed the EU deal to solve the eurozone crisis.
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| It is Official! Putin United Russia Party Wins 53% ov Vote in Russia Elections |
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Russia's Central Election Commission has officially declared Vladimir Putin's United Russia winner of last Sunday's parliamentary (Duma) election. It said that the party won nearly 53 percent of the seats, that is down by 11 percent from the 64 percent four years earlier.
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| US Wants to Help Libya Rebuild Military |
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The United States is trying to find a way how it can help Libya rebuild its military, which the US military considers essential to unify the country and bring rival militias under national control.
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| Involvement in Operation in libya Cost Britain £212m |
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British defence secretary Philip Hammond has confirmed that military operations in Libya during the eight-month long conflict had cost Britain £212m ($333m), and praised the operation in Libya that led to the overthrow of Muammar Al Qathafi.
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| Libya to Allow British to Investigate Lockerbie, Killing of WPC |
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Libya has given British police the go-ahead to visit the country to conduct investigations into the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher. the British foreign minister Alistair Burt said while announcing the breakthrough after talks during a two-day visit to Libya with the country's interim interior minister Fawzy Abdela’ali.
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| Exclusive: NATO Has No Evidence Younis Betrayed the Revolution |
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NATO spokesperson confirmed that NATO has no evidence that Major General Abdul Fatah Younis betrayed the February 17 revolution.This should put more pressure on the transitional government in Libya to re-investigate the major general's assassination.
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