Libya News

Lawyers defending UK government departments from charges of assisting in the rendition of a Libyan man say they will consider paying him damages.

Libyan security services defused several car bombs and other explosives in the past two days, Prime Minister Ali Zidan said on Sunday .

Libya's interior minister has submitted his resignation, two official sources said on Tuesday, after months of efforts to curb armed groups who helped topple Muammar Gaddafi but have since stalled the transition to democracy.

Apostolova's appointment was announced Tuesday by Catherine Ashton , High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

In this Jan.23, 2013, file photo U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham pounds her fist as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

The scandal is disappearing, they say, in the wake of admittedly troubling reports that Republican sources in Congress oversold tendentious paraphrases of administration e-mails as verbatim quotes, coloring with editorial prejudice the account of how the administration crafted its Benghazi talking points.

Secretary of State John Kerry is vowing that the Obama administration will spare no expense or effort to protect U.S. diplomats serving overseas.

Experts say the officer who killed a Long Island college student and a home invasion suspect on Friday was confronted with a split-second choice.

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Our Libyan Embassy and Consulate had experienced violence in the past. The ambassador had repeatedly requested that security be upgraded, but been denied by superiors in Washington, although not for lack of funds.

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Lawlessness in Libya is a result of lack of security for judges and lawyers and the detention of 8,000 people without charges, a legal aid group said.

The president and CEO of The Associated Press says the government's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional" and already has had a chilling effect on newsgathering.

Senator Rand Paul said that the diplomatic facilities in Libya should be under the guard of military command rather than relying on local militia for security, and compared the "war-torn country" to Iraq.

Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai has set the tone for his party's election campaign, saying the terrain "will be determined by those that are able to give answers to Zimbabwe's challenges". Tripoli - A bomb exploded on Saturday in a Tripoli street housing the Algerian, Greek and Saudi embassies, lightly damaging a car, hours after a soldier was ... (more)

Why are so many buildings around the world collapsing daily? What does it take to destroy a building's supporting structure, causing it to collapse without warning? The answer is simple: Planet X in the solar system is closing the gap between itself and Planet Earth.

Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to Connecticut hospitals, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested... Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in ... (more)

Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported.

Why was a diplomatic outpost left so poorly protected? Should the Pentagon have rushed jets or special forces to the rescue when the assault began? Did President Barack Obama's administration obscure the true nature of the terrorist attack to help him get re-elected? Congressional Republicans are poking for evidence of incompetence and cover-up in ... (more)

Fox News contributor and Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer pushed new and old falsehoods about the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, by misrepresenting recently-released emails that prove that government agencies drafted talking points without references to terrorism in order to protect the ongoing investigation into the ... (more)

In the most comprehensive media training programme to reach eastern Libya, IWPR has been working with newsrooms and individual reporters to raise standards and skills.