Libya

Libya releases Swiss businessmen

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Two Swiss businessmen seized in Libya in August have been handed over to the country's Swiss embassy, officials say.

Libya 'began talks over justice for Wpc Yvonne Fletcher in 1992'

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009

Exclusive: British prosecutors had been told more than two years ago that they had sufficient evidence to charge two Libyans over the killing of WPc Yvonne Fletcher according to a leaked report.

Libya hands Swiss businessmen back to embassy

IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday

Two Swiss businessmen prevented from leaving Libya for more than a year have been handed back to the Swiss embassy in Tripoli.

• Swiss: Pair detained in Libya delivered to embassy - Seattle Times
• Swiss: Pair detained in Libya delivered to embassy - Miami Herald
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Swiss: Pair detained in Libya delivered to embassy

MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Two Swiss businessmen detained by Libya over a spat involving leader Moammar Gadhafi's son have been handed over to their embassy in Tripoli, Switzerland's Foreign Ministry said Monday.

• Swiss: Pair detained in Libya delivered to embassy - San Diego Union
• Swiss: Pair detained in Libya delivered to embassy - Miami Herald
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Swiss: Pair detained in Libya delivered to embassy

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday

Two Swiss businessmen detained by Libya over a spat involving leader Moammar Gadhafi's son have been handed over to their embassy in Tripoli, Switzerland's Foreign Ministry said Monday.

• Swiss: Pair detained in Libya delivered to embassy - Miami Herald
• Swiss: Pair detained in Libya delivered to embassy - kansascity.com
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South Africa: Farmers Sample What Libya Offers

All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday

CHARL Senekal holds up a clod of Libyan soil and lets it trickle through his fingers. Behind him endless rows of neglected olive trees stretch into the distance. "This place is easy to fix," says the jovial barrel-chested farmer. "We could turn it into a paradise."

New Envoy Sent to London

All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday

Kenya has posted a new high commissioner to the United Kingdom. Ephraim Waweru Ngare, 60, was transferred from Libya, where he was the ambassador. Mr Ngare arrived in London on Friday morning on a flight from Nairobi accompanied by his wife.

Nigeria: Death Row Returnees Send SOS to Yar'Adua

All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday

OVER 1,000 Nigerians on death row in Libya prisons who were recently repatriated, following the intervention of a Nigeria-based civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), have sent a Save Our Soul (SOS) message to President Umaru Yar'Adua.

Libyan Returnees Seek Yar'Adua's Intervention

All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday

A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has appealed to President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to intervene in the plight of returnee Nigerians from Libya by putting in place machineries that will reintegrate them into the society.

Mezze @ Jalan Kasah, Medan Damansara

Lots of CRaVings (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

Ask me what Mediterranean food is and to be honest with you, i really don't know how to answer you. However, ask me to wikipedia it and you would probably also never realise Mediterranean food actually covers food from so many countries: Europe - Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and Turkey Asia: Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine...

If I was a Country called Malawi......

Watipaso Mkandawire of Chihoro Village (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009

Statistics and Tertiary Education A guy called Mark Twain claimed that Benjamin Disraeli once said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics”. With that in mind, I browsed through the education statistics documented by UNESCO. The statistics provide very elaborate information that I am sure countries use to determine public policy as well as public expenditure. For...

Jebel Nafusa

Jonathan Fryer (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009

I spent most of today up in the Jebel Nafusa or western mountains of Libya, one of the few regions of the country I have never visited before, or at least the eastern part of the region (having camped in Ghadames some years ago). Just an hour or so’s drive west from Tripoli, one enters [...]

Vote on Report of Fact Mission on Gaza Conflict The draft resolution on follow-up to the Report of

Daily Dreamtime (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009

Vote on Report of Fact Mission on Gaza Conflict The draft resolution on follow-up to the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (document A/64/L.11) was adopted by a recorded vote of 114 in favour to 18 against, with 44 abstentions, as follows: In favour : Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh,...

• UN endorses the Goldstone Report - Jews sans frontieres

AudioBooks Dahl Roald

Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009

Roald Dahl was inspired by a meeting with C. S. Forester, Roald Dahl's first published work was Shot Down Over Libya, a story about his wartime adventures, which was bought by the Saturday Evening Post and propelled him into a career as a writer. His first children's book was The Gremlins, about mischievous little creatures that were part of RAF folklore.

Company with links to Tony Blair adviser...

Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009

Company with links to Tony Blair adviser in Libya tourism dealA secretive company run by the brother of Tony Blair’s main adviser is profiting from being a key player in the development of Libya’s lucrative tourist industry, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. By Holly Watt in Hamilton, Bermuda and Robert WinnettPublished: 7:01AM GMT 07 Nov 2009Lord Powell: Lord Powell, a former aide to Baroness...