Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday expressed Britain’s “unconditional admiration” for the families of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing on the attack’s 25th anniversary. Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on December…
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The family of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, on Friday told the BBC they hope to appeal against his conviction. Megrahi, who died from cancer in Tripoli last year after…
Lebanese authorities decided Monday to place Tripoli under army control for six months after a wave of sectarian killings linked to Syria’s war left 11 dead in the main northern city. The decision was taken at a meeting between President Michel Sleiman…
An explosion killed at least 10 people and wounded 15 at a weapons depot in southern Libya Thursday that may have been linked to common theft, an official said. General Mohamed al-Dhabi told AFP: “A group of unknown people tried to attack the depot,…
Four soldiers were killed on Thursday in and around Libya’s violence-wracked eastern city of Benghazi, the cradle of the revolution that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011. And in the south, an explosion killed at least 10 people and wounded many…
BERLIN, Germany, November 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Foreign Minister Westerwelle issued the following statement today (16 November) on…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU),…
WASHINGTON, November 17, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC November 16, 2013…