UN Authorises No-fly Zone Over Libya
18 Mar 2011: The United Nations Security Council has voted on a resolution authorising military intervention in Libya to protect Libyan citizens, including the enforcement of a no-fly zone. The members of the UNSC voted with 10 in favour, none against the resolutionLibya and EU fix up Schengen dispute
29 Mar 2010: Libya lifted a visa ban on citizens of 25 European countries on Saturday after EU president Spain said a Swiss-instigated visa blacklist against 188 Libyans in those countries had been scrapped. The end to the visa ban and the Schengen zone blacklist willUS paid reward to Lockerbie witness papers claim
02 Oct 2009: Two key figures in the conviction of the Lockerbie bomber were secretly given rewards of up to $3m (£1.9m) in a deal discussed by Scottish detectives and the US government, according to legal papers released today. The claims about the payments wereWhy Libya Welcomed Megrahi
03 Sep 2009: When Abdel Baset al-Megrahi landed in Tripoli following his release from Scotland last week, the world saw a single event in two very different ways. Through the prism of the Western media, Americans saw a terrorist being given a hero's welcome by aLibya delays Gaddafi oil plan
06 Mar 2009: Libya's executive and legislative bodies have voted to delay an oil distribution scheme of Muammar Gaddafi, the state news agency Jana has reported. The Libyan leader, who has advocated handing out oil revenues directly to the people to beat endemicLibya releases Muslim Brotherhood members
03 Mar 2006: Libya released all 84 jailed members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement who had been held since the late 1990s, Libyan officials said. "All the 84 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were released today ... amid celebrations in front of the prison in10 Killed in Libya Protest, Italian Minister Unrepentant
18 Feb 2006: ROME/TRIPOLI, February 18, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) Italian Institutional Reform Minister Roberto Calderoli was unrepentant on Saturday, February 18, as Libya blamed him for sparking deadly protests that claimed the lives of ten people byLibya to host Sudan-Chad summit
06 Feb 2006: Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi is to host a mini-summit aimed at easing tensions between Sudan and Chad where both governments accuse each other of backing insurgents, Libyan officials have said. The leaders of Sudan, Chad, Congo Republic, which headsLibya confident as US firms return
26 Jan 2006: Libya expects the United States to remove it from its list of state sponsors of terror now that American companies are returning to Libyan oilfields, a Libyan oil official has said. Tarek Hassan-Beck, of Libya's National Oil Company, said he was "positiveMore US oil firms return to Libya
01 Jan 2006: Three US oil companies are resuming their oil and gas operations in Libya after a 19-year absence. ConocoPhilips, Marathon Oil and Amerada Hess had their exploration contracts suspended in the 1980s after the US imposed sanctions on Libya. But since theFund set up for Libya HIV children
24 Dec 2005: Bulgaria and Libya have agreed to set up a fund for families of Libyan children with HIV, as the international community tries to save five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for infecting youngsters with the virus. The United States, Britain and theLibya defends immigration record
26 Nov 2005: Libya says it has prevented some 40,000 would-be migrants from crossing the Mediterranean Sea and reaching Europe in the last year. It said there were currently one million immigrants in Libya itself, many of them trying to get into Europe. Libya has beenLibya to release 131 prisoners including Muslim Brothers
23 Aug 2005: Seif al-Islam, son of the Libyan leader Muammar al-Qathafi and chairman of al- Qathafi group for charity societies, said that the government will release 131 political detainees including members of the banned Muslim Brothers groups by the beginning ofAl-Qadhafi's son: US to open embassy
22 Aug 2005: The son of the Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi has said the US will open open an embassy in Tripoli within days and that Libya will be removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism by year's end. Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi, who runs the QadhafiUS oil firm returns to Libya
30 Jul 2005: Occidental Petroleum Corp says it has become the first US oil company to resume production in Libya since the US imposed economic sanctions nearly two decades ago over the country's alleged support to terrorism. The Los Angeles-based company has wonslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
