ICC confirms indirect talks with Gaddafi son

THE HAGUE, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) — The international Criminal Court (ICC) was having indirect conversations with Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif Al-Islam for him to face justice in the Hague, the ICC confirmed on Friday. Like his father and former intelligence chief Abdullah Al-Senussi, Saif Al-Islam was indicted with crimes against humanity in Libya by the [...]

Islamist Party Ready to Form Government in Algeria

  Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party Ennahda has begun talks to form a coalition government with centre-left parties ahead of announcement of official results in the country’s landmark election. Preliminary results from the Sunday’s legislative election have put the party formerly banned under the ousted regime in a commanding lead, but still unclear whether it would [...]

Libya: NTC Asks NATO to Extend Stay

Tripoli—Head of Libya’s interim National Transitional Council (NTC) has urged NATO to stay involved in Libya until end of this year to prevent loyalists of former leader Muammar Gaddafi from leaving the country. Speaking during a meeting with the military alliance in the Qatari capital of Doha on Wednesday, interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said [...]

UN Security Council adopts resolution to end Libyan mandates

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) — The UN Security Council voted unanimously here Thursday to pass a resolution that will provide for the termination of the no-fly zone and civilian protection mandates adopted earlier this year for Libya. Resolution 2016, submitted by Russia and Britain and approved by all 15 council members, revokes at the [...]

Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam spotted in Nigerien territory: military source

NIAMEY, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) — Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam who is being sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC), was on Wednesday morning spotted in north Arlit (about 400 km north of Agadez) in the Nigerien territory, military sources have said. Saif al-Islam who was being escorted by pro-Gaddafi fighters, had already established contacts with [...]

No confirmation on who shot Malaysian journalist in Somalia.

  Beyondheadlines Foreign Reporter No confirmation could be reached of, who fired the shots that killed Malaysian Bernama cameraman in Mogadishu Somalia on 2nd September this year. Noramfaizul Mohd Nor 39, working as a cameraman for Bernama the official Malaysian Government News Agency, was shot dead on second day of Eid which raised great public sentiment and sympathy for [...]

Libyan Rebels Announce to Move Government to Tripoli

TRIPOLI, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) — Libyan rebels announced late Thursday to transfer their leadership from Benghazi to the capital Tripoli. Doha-based TV channel Al-Jazeera quoted the announcement by a senior official of the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) at a press conference as saying that the NTC has transferred its executive committee’s work to Tripoli. [...]

Libyan Rebels Search for Gaddafi in Tripoli as NATO Continues Airstrikes

Libyan rebels enter the suburb of Tripoli, capital of Libya (Courtesy: Xinhua/Hamza Turkia)

BENGHAZI/TRIPOLI, Libya, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) — Libyan rebels vowed to capture Muammar Gaddafi as NATO continued airstrikes on Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli early Tuesday. Gaddafi’s era is over and the real victory of Libyan revolution lies in the capture of him, said Mustafa Abdul Jalil, head of Libya’s National Transitional Council, at a press conference [...]

Egypt Starts Landmark Trial of Ex-President Mubarak

(Courtesy: Xinhua/Reuters

CAIRO, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) — Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak appeared in court in Cairo on Wednesday in the first session of his trial along with ten other defendants. He became the first president to stand trial in the history of Egypt and also the first ever since the mass protests began to sweep the [...]

Libyan Rebel Forces Chief Killed, Refugee Exodus Continues

File photo of Abdel Fattah Younes

BENGHAZI, July 29 (Xinhua) — Libyan rebels were mourning the killing of its military leader amid an intensified conflict with troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, as the country’s humanitarian situation worsens with a new wave of refugee exodus. Abdel Fattah Younes, Gaddafi’s former security minister who defected to the opposition Transitional National Council (TNC) and [...]

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