<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Tripoli: News &amp; Videos about Tripoli - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Tripoli</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Tripoli from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:59:39 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Tripoli: News &amp; Videos about Tripoli - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/WORLD/africa/09/09/libya.lockerbie.bomber.appearance/tztop.megrahi.gi.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Tripoli</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Tripoli from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Lockerbie bomber appears, looking weak and dazed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/09/libya.lockerbie.bomber.appearance/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/09/libya.lockerbie.bomber.appearance/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Lockerbie bomber made a brief public appearance at a hospital in Libya Wednesday, looking weak and unable to engage in what was going on around him.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Analysis: Distrust debunks Lockerbie deal theories</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/08/24/oakley.lockerbie/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/08/24/oakley.lockerbie/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An act of compassion or an undercover deal? What is the truth about the release of Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi from the Scottish prison where the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing was incarcerated?</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Take fight to the pirates</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/09/wilkerson.pirates/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/09/wilkerson.pirates/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>It is well past time to take a serious look at piracy off the coast of Africa.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Desperation, smuggling the backdrop to migrant tragedy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/31/libya.migrants.plight/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/31/libya.migrants.plight/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Desperation, sophisticated smuggling operations and the emergence of a small Italian island as a migrant destination provide the sad backdrop to Monday's tragedy on the Mediterranean Sea -- the capsizing of a boat carrying African migrants from Libya to Italy.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hundreds feared dead off coast of Libya</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/31/libya.boat.sinks/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/31/libya.boat.sinks/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>High winds and heavy seas capsized a boat filled with African migrants heading for Europe off the coast of Libya Monday -- with more than 200 feared dead, the International Organization for Migration in Geneva, Switzerland, said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Libya pays $1.5 billion to settle terrorism claims</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/31/libya.payment/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/31/libya.payment/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Libya has paid $1.5 billion to the families of terrorism victims, overcoming the final obstacle to full relations with the United States, the State Department said Friday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Libya Pays $1.5B for US Terror Victims</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1855646,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1855646,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Libya has paid $1.5 billion into a fund to compensate the families
 of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Official: Libya gives U.S. money for terror victims</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/us.libya.compensation/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/us.libya.compensation/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The United States has received "a substantial amount of money" from Libya to settle claims by American victims of terrorism, a senior U.S. official announced Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>2 American Journalists Missing in Lebanon</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1848504,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1848504,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Two American journalists vacationing in Lebanon have not been heard from since Oct. 1 and are believed missing, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two U.S. journalists missing in Lebanon</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/08/lebanon.missing.americans/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/08/lebanon.missing.americans/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The U.S. Embassy in Beirut is asking for assistance in locating two missing American journalists who were on vacation in Lebanon and have not been heard from since they left the Lebanese capital last week.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>US Embassy: 2 Americans Missing in Lebanon</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1848238,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1848238,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon says two Americans are missing in
 Lebanon and is appealing for information on their whereabouts</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deadly explosion rocks Lebanese city</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/29/lebanon.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/29/lebanon.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A blast targeting a bus carrying Lebanese soldiers went off near an entrance to the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Monday, killing four soldiers, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>5 Killed in Northern Lebanon Explosion</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1845328,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1845328,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A car bomb exploded Monday near a military bus carrying troops going to work in northern Lebanon, killing at least five people and injuring 25 others, Lebanese security officials said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rice meets with Libya leader</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/09/05/libya.us/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/09/05/libya.us/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Friday with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who asked for the latest news on the hurricanes plaguing U.S. coasts in recent weeks.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rice in Libya: A Rare Mideast Success  
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1839269,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1839269,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Meeting with Gaddafi signals the successful conclusion of a diplomatic process that tamed a bad actor
</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Italy Pays Reparations to Libya</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1838014,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1838014,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Rome agrees to massive payout for colonial injustices. But could the deal set a precedent for other former powers?</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>100-Passenger Darfur Plane Hijacked</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1836331,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1836331,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A man waving a knife hijacked a jetliner carrying about 100 people Tuesday in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, forcing it to land at a World War II-era airfield in the heart of the Sahara Desert in neighboring Libya</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rice to meet with Libyan leader Gadhafi</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/26/rice.mideast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/26/rice.mideast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will make a historic visit to Libya next month, senior Bush administration officials said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S., Libya deal closes book on Lockerbie</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/14/lockerbie/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/14/lockerbie/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Libya will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to victims of terrorist attacks involving Americans in an agreement signed and finalized Thursday, the U.S. State Department said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Libya, US Settle all Terror Lawsuits</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832789,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832789,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Libya and the United States settled all outstanding lawsuits by
 American victims of terrorism on Thursday, clearing the way for the
 full restoration of diplomatic relations</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>12 killed in Tripoli explosion, source says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/13/lebanon.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/13/lebanon.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An explosion targeting a bus rocked a business district in central Tripoli Wednesday morning, killing at least 12 people and wounding 50 others, a senior member of Lebanon's internal security forces told CNN.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bomb in Lebanese City Kills 18</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832337,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832337,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A bomb ripped through a bus during Wednesday morning rush hour in a
 northern Lebanese city, killing 18 soldiers and civilians, security
 officials said</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bomb in Lebanon Rips Through Bus
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832296,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832296,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A bomb ripped through a bus carrying civilians and members of the military during morning rush hour in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Six die in Lebanon fighting</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/26/lebanon.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/26/lebanon.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Six people have been killed and 52 wounded since Thursday night in battles between pro- and anti-government forces in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, security forces told CNN.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>At least 4 dead in Lebanon clashes</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/25/lebanon.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/25/lebanon.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least four people were killed in a gunbattle between opposing forces in northern Lebanon Friday, a senior security source told CNN.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Libya Flips Over Swiss Detention</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1826237,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1826237,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Gaddafi shuts off the oil after his son and daughter-in-law are questioned for beating servants </description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lebanon officials reverse decisions that set off violence</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/14/lebanon.crisis/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/14/lebanon.crisis/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lebanon's Cabinet on Wednesday reversed two decisions that triggered violence among anti-government Hezbollah militants last week: the firing of the chief of security at Beirut's airport and the order that Hezbollah's telecommunications system come under state control, according to a statement released by Cabinet members.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 21:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. to continue military aid to Lebanon</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/14/lebanon.unitedstates/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/14/lebanon.unitedstates/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, the acting commander of U.S. Central Command, spent Wednesday in Beirut, Lebanon, to discuss the security crisis with officials there and assure them that U.S. military aid will continue, a U.S. military official said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 16:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Clashes continue in Lebanon for 5th day</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/12/lebanon.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/12/lebanon.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>More clashes erupted in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli on Monday, as fighting between the Hezbollah militia and its rivals who support Lebanon's Western-backed government entered a fifth day.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah-led forces take revolt to mountains above Beirut</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/11/lebanon.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/11/lebanon.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Hezbollah-led revolt to topple Lebanon's U.S.-backed government triggered new fighting Monday in the northern port city of Tripoli.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 11:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>When Sarkozy Met Gaddafi</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1693121,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1693121,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The Libyan leader's first trip to France in 34 years has been greeted by outrage. What do they hope to get out of the visit?</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Libya to sit on Security Council</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/10/16/libya.un/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/10/16/libya.un/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Four years after renouncing terrorism and abandoning its WMD programs, Libya Tuesday won a two-year term on the U.N. Security Council.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Beirut Routs Bin Laden Allies
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1658604,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1658604,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>But the conditions that fostered them in Lebanon remain -- and a concerned U.S. is shipping more military aid to the Siniora government
</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Call girls drop charges against Gadhafi's kin</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09/03/gadhafi.nephew/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09/03/gadhafi.nephew/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two call girls have dropped assault charges against the nephew of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Terror leader possibly dead after siege at refugee camp in Lebanon</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/03/lebanon.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/03/lebanon.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The leader of an Islamist militant group may be among the 39 insurgents killed as Lebanese forces overtook a Palestinian refugee camp where militants had holed up and staged attacks for months, according to a Lebanese official and media reports Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lebanon takes control of refugee camp</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/02/lebanon.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/02/lebanon.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Lebanese military took control Sunday of a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon after fighting with Islamist militants who tried to flee, the government announced Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Islamist's home seized in Lebanon</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/01/lebanon.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/01/lebanon.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lebanese troops seized control of a top Islamist militia leader's home in northern Lebanon on Saturday, Lebanese military officials said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Has Libya Really Reformed?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1649277,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1649277,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In the wake of its release of six Bulgarian prisoners, Gaddafi Jr. talks to TIME about the country's diplomatic rehabilitation</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lebanon launches assault against militants</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/12/lebanon.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/12/lebanon.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Lebanese army pounded a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon with heavy artillery Thursday in what one high-ranking Lebanese security source described as a final bid to oust the Islamist militants entrenched inside.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Behind Sarkozy's Libya Coup</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1646141,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1646141,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The French President looks set to win the freedom of six improperly imprisoned foreign medical personnel. 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representative said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lebanon keeps up siege on militants in Palestinian camp</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/02/lebanon.conflict/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/02/lebanon.conflict/index.html</guid><description>Six Lebanese soldiers were killed during intense fighting as the army battled again Saturday to rout militants from a Palestinian refugee camp north of Tripoli, a military spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lebanon's Prime Minister: Syria is Threatening my Country</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1627222,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1627222,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In an exclusive interview, Fouad Siniora says his government has evidence of Damascus' hand in Lebanon's recent spate of 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EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hezbollah to Lebanese army: Stay out of refugee camp</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/25/lebanon.nasrallah/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/25/lebanon.nasrallah/index.html</guid><description>The leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, has warned the Lebanese army not to enter the Palestinian refugee camp north of Tripoli where it has been confronting Islamic militants.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 00:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lebanon to receive weapons shipment from U.S.</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/24/lebanon.violence/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/24/lebanon.violence/index.html</guid><description>Lebanese forces battling Islamic militants inside Lebanon will be resupplied by a shipment of U.S. military ammunition, which is expected to arrive within two days, senior U.S. officials told CNN on 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EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lebanese minister pleads for money and weapons</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/21/lebanon.haddad/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/21/lebanon.haddad/index.html</guid><description>Lebanon's economy minister on Monday asked for money and resources to help Lebanese forces battling members of an Islamic militant group in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 21:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Camp conditions 'breeding ground' for militants</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/21/lebanon.sidebar/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/21/lebanon.sidebar/index.html</guid><description>Squalid living conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps are partly to blame for the rise of the Islamic extremist group Fatah al-Islam, says Lebanon's former ambassador to the United Nations.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 18:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon: Facts and figures</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/21/lebanon.camps/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/21/lebanon.camps/index.html</guid><description>Smoke billowed Monday from a Palestinian refugee camp as Lebanese forces battled Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda for a second day near the northern city of Tripoli.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 09:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Explosion rocks Beirut; battles rage near Tripoli</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/21/lebanon.violence/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/21/lebanon.violence/index.html</guid><description>In Lebanon, an explosion filled the Beirut sky with plumes of black smoke as fighting also continued in the north of the country between Lebanese soldiers and militants at a Palestinian refugee camp.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 07:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sunday, May 20</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/20/sunday/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/20/sunday/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>(CNN) -- Two humpback whales have turned back downstream toward San Francisco Bay after a week lost upriver near Sacramento, Calif., authorities said Sunday. </description><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 02:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Saturday, May 19</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/19/saturday/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/19/saturday/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>From Journalist Tom Coghlan in Kabul</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 06:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Third day of air travel chaos in UK</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/12/22/bt.britain.flights/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/12/22/bt.britain.flights/index.html</guid><description>Thick, freezing fog is causing havoc for Christmas travelers in Britain for a third day, with hundreds of flights cancelled at airports.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>More arrests in German bomb plot</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/25/lebanon.germany/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/25/lebanon.germany/index.html</guid><description>Two more people were detained on Friday in connection with a recent failed attempt to bomb two trains in Germany -- bringing the number of arrests in the case to four, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Second train bomb suspect held</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/24/lebanon.germany/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/24/lebanon.germany/index.html</guid><description>The German federal prosecutor's office in Berlin said a second suspect in last month's failed attempt to bomb two trains has turned himself in.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Libya: Now open for business</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/31/magazines/business2/Libya_openforbusiness.biz2/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/31/magazines/business2/Libya_openforbusiness.biz2/index.htm</guid><description>A nation emerging from international pariah status is a blank slate for investors.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your e-mails: Stories from the crisis</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/24/feedback.emails/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/24/feedback.emails/index.html</guid><description>CNN.com asked readers affected by the attacks in the Middle East to share their stories. 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Wassef Hassoun, has been freed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. renews diplomatic ties with Libya</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/06/28/libya.us/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/06/28/libya.us/index.html</guid><description>The United States resumed direct diplomatic ties with Libya on Monday after 24 years, the State Department said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Libya's Black Gold Rush With sanctions lifted, Big Oil is lining up to do business with Qaddafi.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/06/28/374397/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/06/28/374397/index.htm</guid><description>Squinting against the harsh Libyan sun, the American oilmen emerge from a line of idling black Mercedes sedans and make their way into a low-slung building near Tripoli's sleepy international airpo...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Libya to end deals with WMD states</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/05/13/libya.armstrade/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/05/13/libya.armstrade/index.html</guid><description>Libya has told the United States it will halt military trade with countries believed to be proliferating weapons of mass destruction, the State Department said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2004 22:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. lifts most sanctions against Libya</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/04/23/us.libya.sanctions/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/04/23/us.libya.sanctions/index.html</guid><description>The Bush administration lifted most U.S. sanctions against Libya on Friday, opening the way for U.S. investments and commercial activities but still forbidding air travel and some exports to the 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has said following a historic meeting with Moammar Gadhafi.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair praises Gadhafi WMD decision</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/24/blair.libya/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/24/blair.libya/index.html</guid><description>British PM Tony Blair has praised Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi for his decision to renounce terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. lifts travel ban to Libya</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/26/libya/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/26/libya/index.html</guid><description>The Bush administration on Thursday lifted the U.S. government's 23-year-old ban on travel to Libya a day after Tripoli reaffirmed its responsibility for the 1988 Pan Am 103 terrorist bombing.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:27:00 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Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. establishes diplomatic presence in Libya</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/10/us.libya/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/02/10/us.libya/index.html</guid><description>A U.S. diplomat has been sent to Tripoli, establishing the first diplomatic presence in Libya in decades, a State Department official said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Key facts: Libya sanctions</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/02/10/libya.sanctions.facts/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/02/10/libya.sanctions.facts/index.html</guid><description>The U.N. Security Council on September 12, 2003 lifted sanctions against Libya, triggering the release of up to $2.7 billion to the families of the 270 people killed in bombing of a Pan Am airline over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>West brings Libya in from cold</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/02/06/uk.libya/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/02/06/uk.libya/index.html</guid><description>U.S. and UK officials have met a Libyan delegation for talks on bringing the former pariah state in from the cold, ahead of a landmark visit by Tripoli's foreign minister to Britain next week.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. team in talks with Gadhafi</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/01/26/libya.us/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/01/26/libya.us/index.html</guid><description>A delegation of U.S. politicians has met with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi during a landmark visit to Tripoli.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:37:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>