U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said that he had nothing to announce about his country’s call for the Libyan outgoing government headed by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh to extradite more Libyans “involved” in the Lockerbie bombing case.
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The visit of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency William J. Burns to Libya was surrounded by a halo…
Bernard Kalb, a former American television reporter for CBS and NBC who quit his job as a State Department spokesman to protest a U.S. government disinformation campaign against Libya, died Sunday at the age of 100, VOA reported.
Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Health Minister of the Libyan outgoing Government of National Unity (GNU), Ramadan Abu Janah, has met with Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy to Libya, Leslie Ordman.
Oil prices were little changed on Friday as the market balanced a weaker U.S. dollar and mixed U.S. jobs reports, but both crude benchmarks ended the first week of the year lower due to global recession concerns, reported Reuters.
The Libyan Parliament has issued a decree considering the agreement concluded between Libya and the United States in 2008 as a final settlement of the Lockerbie case from a civil and criminal point of view.
Libyan Parliament Spokesman Abdulla Bleihiq said the Parliament session Monday in Benghazi ended with the immunization and prevention of future extradition of any Libyan citizen by any party.
Oil prices were little changed on Wednesday as a larger-than-expected draw in U.S. crude stocks offset worries about rising COVID-19 cases in top oil importer China, Reuters reported.
US Embassy in Libya said Tuesday “transfer of Abu Agila Masud al-Marimi to U.S. custody to stand trial on charges related to the bombing of Pan Am 103 was lawful and conducted in cooperation with Libyan authorities“
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.