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  • Car bomb explodes outside French embassy in Libya leaving two guards seriously injured
    France’s embassy in Tripoli has been hit by what appeared to be a car bomb this morning, injuring two guards. It is the first such attack in the Libyan capital since the 2011 war that ousted former dictator Muammar Gaddafi. ‘There was an attack on the embassy. We think it was a booby-trapped car,’ said an embassy official. ‘There was a lot of damage...
    April 23, 2013 15:25
  • Libyan Official: Egyptian Detainees to Be Deported
    A Libyan  security official says 50 Egyptians, who were arrested in Benghazi last week for allegedly spreading Christianity, are being charged with illegally entering and working in the country and will be deported. A video circulated this week on social networking sites purportedly showing a group of Christian Egyptians with shaved heads and a bearded young man in a...
    March 3, 2013 14:16
  • Saif Gaddafi appears in court charged with trying to escape jail and insulting new Libyan regime’s flag
    The son of former Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi has appeared in court today charged with attempting to escape jail, harming state security and insulting the new regime’s flag. Saif-al Islam, who had been considered the most natural successor to his father before the fall of his regime in 2011, appeared in court in the western town of Zintan where he is being held...
    January 18, 2013 23:14