Cairo: Little in Libya ever gets done in a timely manner. In commerce and government, bureaucratic inertia and a lack of accountability delay even the most mundane of administrative tasks. Which is why it was so telling these last few weeks that Libyans defied the pessimists, shrugged off security worries and quickly registered the populace ahead of a historic June 19 parliamentary vote. And why it is so alarming that...
12:59 AM, May 31, 2012
Tripoli: The administration of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was running a covert programme to conceal weapons in Libyan embassies across the globe, a senior official in the new government said on Thursday. The weapons included handguns, grenades and bomb-making materials and were shipped using the diplomatic bag. They may have been intended for use in assassinations on Libyan dissidents abroad, or for operations against the embassies' host countries. The...
11:59 AM, Mar 09, 2012
A case is being built to justify a Libya-style military intervention in Syria. Even the Arab League has suspended its observer mission in Syria. Will the country go the Libya way? Watch CNN-IBN's global affairs show, World View, on Saturday at 10 pm to know the answer. ...
09:40 AM, Feb 26, 2012
A case is being built to justify a Libya-style military intervention in Syria. Even the Arab League has suspended its observer mission in Syria. Will the country go the Libya way? Watch CNN-IBN's global affairs show, World View, on Saturday at 10 pm to know the answer. ...
05:22 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Aden: Yemen sealed President Ali Abdullah Saleh's exit from power on Tuesday by electing his deputy to shepherd the country away from the brink of civil war. Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the sole, consensus candidate, billed the vote as a way to move on after months of protests against Saleh's 33-year rule, but the president's sons and nephews still command key army units and security agencies. "Elections are the...
04:54 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Tripoli: Slain dictator of Libya, Moammer Gaddafi's bloodied shirt and wedding ring have been put up for $2 million (Rs 10 crore) auction. The disgraced dictator was wearing the silver ring and bloodied beige shirt when he was dragged from a drainpipe near his home town of Sirte before being beaten and shot. Libyan national Ahmed Warfali is apparently asking for $2 million (Rs 10 crore) for the items after...
08:26 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Sidi Bouzid: Tens of thousands of people packed a provincial town square to celebrate the first anniversary on Saturday of Tunisia's democratic revolution in the place where it began, unleashing a tide of popular revolt that has transformed the Arab world. The festive mood in Sidi Bouzid was tempered somewhat, however, by reminders that democratic change in Tunisia has yet to ease poverty and high unemployment - bread and butter...
08:24 AM, Dec 18, 2011
United Nations: The UN Security Council on Friday ordered assets of two Libyan banks that had been under the control of Muammar Gaddafi to be unfrozen, clearing the way for the return of more than $ 40 billion to help the new government rebuild the country. The transitional government had asked the council's committee monitoring sanctions against Libya to lift the asset freeze on the Central Bank of Libya and...
08:49 AM, Dec 17, 2011
Algiers: A lawyer for Muammar Gaddafi's daughter said on Wednesday he had written to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to ask if an investigation had been launched into the killing of her father and brother. A copy of the letter, said that Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim were "murdered in the most horrific fashion with their bodies thereafter displayed and grotesquely abused in complete defiance of Islamic...
01:30 AM, Dec 15, 2011
Tripoli: The man whose arrest in February sparked Libya's revolution was sworn in as a minister in the new interim government on Sunday but said he had been hesitant about taking on the new job. Fethi Tarbel, Libya's new sport and youth minister, wiped away tears after he took he swore a pledge of allegiance to Libya with one hand placed on the Koran, the Muslim holy book. Standing in...
01:40 AM, Dec 05, 2011
Tripoli: Dozens of Libyan religious leaders on Monday urged authorities to disarm former rebels and form a national army, backing the transitional government's struggle to exert control over the militias that overthrew dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The fighters are widely admired for their role in bringing down the Gaddafi regime, but the clerics' statement reflected concern over the militias' refusal to submit to the central authority. Dozens of militias have held...
03:10 AM, Nov 29, 2011
Tripoli: About 100 Libyan women took to Tripoli's streets on Saturday in a silent march to demand more support from the country's new government for victims of rape during the eight-month war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi. Their mouths covered with duct tape, women both young and old marched for an hour to Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib's office and later met him to discuss their demands. Wearing pink scarves and carrying...
04:31 AM, Nov 27, 2011
Egypt remains tense as its enters its 6th day of unrest. Military police poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Wednesday in hopes of stopping clashes between protesters and police. ...
09:21 AM, Nov 24, 2011
While Egypt military rulers have hinted at a referendum on transfering power to a civilian government, winds of change in Libya as Interim PM Abdel al-Kib announced his new cabinet where 2 key posts have been given to the ex-rebels. ...
10:54 AM, Nov 23, 2011
Tripoli: Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) on Tuesday named a new government featuring several surprise appointments that suggested the line-up was aimed at trying to soothe rivalries between regional factions. Earlier, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor conceded that the captured son of Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam, may be tried in Libya rather than in The Hague, meaning he faces the death penalty if convicted. In forming a government, the...
01:23 AM, Nov 23, 2011
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