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| Libya’s Interior Minister Forced to Resign Over Security Criticism After Attacks on Mosques |
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Libya’s interim interior minister Fawzi Abdelali has resigned after members of the newly-elected parliament accused his forces of neglect when attackers bulldozed Sufi's Al-Shaab Al-Dahman mosque and shrine on Saturday while police stood by in the latest in a string of assaults on Sufi places of worship. They also condemned the acts of violence.
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| Low Turnout at Zliten Local Council Elections |
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There has been a low turnout at the elections of the Local Council in Zliten. The number of registered voters reached 74 thousands but only 14 thousand participated comparing to the number of participants in the July National Congress elections which reached 59 thousand.
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| Opinion: Libya: Advice to Gaddafi Loyalists - by S.R.H. Hasmi |
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It is time for Gaddafi loyalists to give up because they are in no position to reverse the progress that has been made in the meantime and their struggle is not for a just cause anyway. By persisting in their terrorist acts, Gaddafi loyalists are only doing great harm to themselves as well as to their near and dear ones.
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| Islamist Hardliners Blamed for Demolition of Mosque in the Heart of Tripoli |
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Islamist hardliners have been blamed for the demolition of the mausoleum of the large Al-Shaab Al-Dahman mosque near the centre of Tripoli in broad daylight on Saturday, an act that has been condemned by Government officials.
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| UN-Arab League Envoy on Syria Crisis Says he is 'Scared' of Prospect |
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At a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York and his first meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon since agreeing last week to replace Kofi Annan as the Joint Special Representative of the UN and Arab League on Syria, Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi said he was "honoured, flattered, humbled and scared" at the prospect of leading international efforts to broker peace in Syria's worsening 17-month conflict.
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| Former Malta PM Dom Mintoff Laid to Rest |
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Amid Emotional scenes in the main street of the capital Valletta during a state funeral at the end of two days of mourning, on Saturday morning, Malta's former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff , Malta's longest serving prime minister, who died on Monday, aged 96, was laid to rest at the island's main cemetery.
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| Opinion: Only Way for Libya Now is Forward – by Muftah Al-Mabrouk |
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I have often wondered why some people fail to resign themselves to reason and try to make the best of what's there. In Libya, some loyalists of the former dictator Muammar Gaddafi seem to believe that the February 17 Revolution was just a passing phase. They were so lost in the corruption that prevailed, that they believe that their good old days would return. No way!
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| Libyan Dress (Part 1) |
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Coming out of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, Libya's values of hospitality, community and the honoring of elders have been revived into society. Facets of tradition rise to the surface on special occasions like Eid, including the wearing of traditional dress. For men, the Eid holidays are one of few chances to wear Tripoli's tradition on their backs.
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| Opinion: The Missing Option to Defuse Iran Threat - by Nicola Nasser |
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To keep “all options on the table” in the US - Israel plans to change the incumbent Syrian and Iranian regimes and neutralise what both countries perceive as an imminent “threat” is a formula missing the only feasible option to defuse their perceived threat peacefully, which is obviously much cheaper in money and human souls.
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| Libyan Government Confiscates 100 Tanks from Gaddafi Loyalists |
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Libyan government forces have confiscated 100 tanks and almost 30 rocket launchers from a militia loyal to former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and interior ministry spokesman said.
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| Malta Pays Homage to Former PM Dom Mintoff |
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The respect the people had for former prime minister and leader of the Labour Party in Malta Dom Mintoff was proved over the past two days when they they first paid homage to him at a cortège on thursday, and then filed in their thousands past his coffin to pay their last respects as he was lying in state at the Presidential Palace in the Maltese capital, Valletta on Friday.
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| Court Declares Norwegian Mass Killer Breivik Sane, Sentences Him to 21 Years in Jail |
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A Norwegian court has declared Anders Behring Breivik who had admitted admitted killing 77 people and wounding more than 240 others sane and sentenced him to 21 years in jail. It was on July 22 last year that Breivik bombed central Oslo and then opened fire at an island youth camp.
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| Two Athletes to Represent Libya in 2012 London Summer Paralympic Games |
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LIBYA is to be represented by two athletes, Hamza Al Hamali, and Abdulrazag Al Babaa at the London 2012 Summer Paralympic Games that start this coming Wednesday, August 29, with what is once again expected to be a spectacular opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in the Olympic Park that a few weeks ago hosted the London 2012 Olympic Games. This latest event will last until September 9.
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| Total E & P Eager to Invest Widely in Libya, Takes Advantage of Libyan Economic Surge this Year |
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Vice President of TOTAL E&P; North Africa said despite security concerns in Libya TOTAL has managed to work in Tripoli as well as on the fields, both safely and efficiently. The surge of Libyan economy by 117 percent this year is to be met by re-starting exploration activities.
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| Pakistan Firms Secure Reconstruction Bids from Libya |
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As Libya now focuses decisively on the reconstruction and the rebuilding of the country, the Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (Unisame) of Pakistan, said it has received requests from big construction companies who have managed to secure bids for reconstruction work in Libya, and who need small and medium enterprises (SMEs) subcontractors to carry out the supplementing jobs in civil, mechanical and electrical engineering on contract basis all over the country.
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| Libyan Group Sues Malta Company Over €64m Import Deal |
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A Libyan association on Wednesday filed a court application in the Maltese courts to have the accounts of a Maltese company frozen after a €63.6 million deal turned sour.
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| 7 Libyans Among Prisons Pardoned in Tunisia |
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Seven Libyans are among 26 prisons pardoned by the Tunisian interim President Moncef Markouzi on the occasion marking the end of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, last Sunday, the country's Department of Media and Communications has announced.
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| Car of Egyptian Diplomat Blown Up in Benghazi, Nobody Hurt |
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Just a day after deadly bomb attacks in the capital Tripoli killed two people, and on the day that a group of supporters of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi confessed to the criminal acts after being arrested, were arrested, in Benghazi on Monday, a car belonging to an Egyptian diplomat was blown up near his home in the eastern Libyan city Benghazi.
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