It is well past time to take a serious look at piracy off the coast of Africa.
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.
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.
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.
Libya has paid $1.5 billion into a fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s
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.
Two American journalists vacationing in Lebanon have not been heard from since Oct. 1 and are believed missing, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday
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.
The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon says two Americans are missing in Lebanon and is appealing for information on their whereabouts
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.
It is well past time to take a serious look at piracy off the coast of Africa.
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.
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.
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.
Libya has paid $1.5 billion into a fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s
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.
Two American journalists vacationing in Lebanon have not been heard from since Oct. 1 and are believed missing, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday
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.
The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon says two Americans are missing in Lebanon and is appealing for information on their whereabouts
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.
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.
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.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will make a historic visit to Libya next month, senior Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
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.
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
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.
A bomb ripped through a bus during Wednesday morning rush hour in a northern Lebanese city, killing 18 soldiers and civilians, security officials said
A bomb ripped through a bus carrying civilians and members of the military during morning rush hour in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli
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.
At least four people were killed in a gunbattle between opposing forces in northern Lebanon Friday, a senior security source told CNN.
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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.
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.
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.
The Hezbollah-led revolt to topple Lebanon's U.S.-backed government triggered new fighting Monday in the northern port city of Tripoli.
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Four years after renouncing terrorism and abandoning its WMD programs, Libya Tuesday won a two-year term on the U.N. Security Council.
But the conditions that fostered them in Lebanon remain -- and a concerned U.S. is shipping more military aid to the Siniora government
Two call girls have dropped assault charges against the nephew of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said Monday.
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.
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.
Lebanese troops seized control of a top Islamist militia leader's home in northern Lebanon on Saturday, Lebanese military officials said.
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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.
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The death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV have been commuted to life in prison, Libya's foreign minister said Tuesday
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The Lebanese army fired heavy artillery into the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Tuesday, in what it says could be the final push to force Islamist militants from the camp, military sources said.
Two Red Cross workers were killed Monday at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon as Lebanese forces and Islamic militants battled, a Red Cross representative said.
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.
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Lebanese soldiers -- backed by gunboats, heavy artillery and rows of tanks -- entered a Palestinian refugee camp that has hosted days of fierce fighting north of Tripoli, a military source said Friday.
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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.
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 Thursday.
Battered by days of fighting between Islamic militants and the Lebanese army, many Palestinians are fleeing a refugee camp near Tripoli, Palestinian and Red Crescent officials said.
Some 2,000 Palestinians have fled a refugee camp near Tripoli after three days of fighting, according to the Red Crescent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Eleven people were killed and an Italian consulate was burned in Libya on Friday night during protests to denounce the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, sources in Libya said.
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Saudi Arabia says it is withdrawing its ambassador to Libya and ordering out its envoy in response to reports that Tripoli plotted to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.
For the first time in more than 25 years, a U.S. secretary of state has met with the Libyan foreign minister.
U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson is waiting in Tripoli for a meeting with Libyan officials to discuss the north African nation's role in the crisis in Sudan.
The mystery surrounding U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, the 24-year-old American who resurfaced in Lebanon after disappearing in Iraq, brought me to Tripoli. Tripoli is Lebanon's second-largest city, some 60 miles north of Beirut, where the military translator grew up.
U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, who disappeared from his unit in Iraq last month and was depicted on a videotape as having been captured by insurgents, arrived Thursday evening at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, the State Department said.
The brother of an American Marine who had been taken hostage in Iraq asserted Tuesday that his brother, Cpl. Wassef Hassoun, has been freed.
The United States resumed direct diplomatic ties with Libya on Monday after 24 years, the State Department said.
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...
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.
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 country, the White House said.
The United States is poised to lift sanctions against Libya in the coming days in response to the country's progress in dismantling its weapons of mass destruction program, State Department officials said Tuesday.
Libya can be an important partner in fighting terrorism if it fulfills its pledge to give up weapons of mass destruction, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has said following a historic meeting with Moammar Gadhafi.
British PM Tony Blair has praised Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi for his decision to renounce terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
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.
The Bush administration put off plans to lift travel restrictions on Americans to Libya after the country's prime minister said Tripoli was not responsible for the Pan Am 103 bombing and accepted blame only to "buy peace" with the West, a senior State Department official said Tuesday.
The Bush administration will lift nearly 20-year-old U.S. travel restrictions to Libya to reward Tripoli for ending its weapons of mass destruction programs, an administration official said Monday.
A U.S. diplomat has been sent to Tripoli, establishing the first diplomatic presence in Libya in decades, a State Department official said Tuesday.
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.
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.
A delegation of U.S. politicians has met with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi during a landmark visit to Tripoli.
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