Downing Street believed Nelson Mandela’s attempt to play mediator between it and the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi over the question of compensation after the Lockerbie bombing was “unlikely to be helpful”, documents reveal.
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French authorities arrested Friday a French and a Libyan nationals, after the two threatened to blow up a metro station in Paris.
Italy will allow the Ocean Viking humanitarian ship to dock at an Italian port and disembark 113 people rescued from the waters of the Mediterranean, a French NGO said Tuesday.
The abduction of a former Libyan intelligence operative accused of preparing the bomb that brought down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 and his transfer into US custody raises concerns about a renewed willingness in Washington to flout international law to hunt alleged terrorist fugitives, The Guardian reported.
Africa Intelligence website revealed that Washington is pressing to impose diplomat Kenneth Gluck as deputy head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), to replace Rezidon Zeninga, who will leave next January.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan discussed their two countries’ joint energy projects, especially in the gas sector, in a phone call on Sunday, Russian news agencies cited the Kremlin as saying.
International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Middle East and North Africa has held a meeting in Cairo “to enhance cooperation and strategic planning and partnerships for the year ahead.”
Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, discussed Thursday with Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, developments of the Libyan crisis, on the sidelines of the 2022 Mediterranean Dialogues , held in Rome.
Greece has submitted a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres outlining the background of the illegal Turkish-Libyan memorandum.
Fourteen (14) illegal migrants from Syria, Tunisia and Libya were detained by the Burgas gendarmerie near the Sredets village of Draka, Burgas region, according to Novinite, Sofia News Agency.