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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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 [...]
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,...
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.
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...