Tripoli

Tripoli

• Top Libyan official: Benghazi explosion accident

  Libya's deputy prime minister says an investigation has indicated that a deadly explosion in Benghazi last week was an accident and not an attack. 

• Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city

  Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported. A security ... 

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  Deadly bomb strikes civilian area in east Libya

  A deadly car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in a busy area packed with civilians in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, destroying part of the ... 

• BP withdrawing some staff from Tripoli

  Oil company BP says it is temporarily withdrawing some nonessential and non-Libyan staff from its office in Libya's capital following similar action ... 

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  Anti-militias protesters attacked in Libya

  Scores of Libyan militiamen descended on rally in the nation's capital, Tripoli, kicking and beating protesters who had taken to the streets Friday ... 

• Officials: US forces on alert in response to Libya

  Marines and other U.S. forces in Europe are on a heightened state of alert in response to a deteriorating security situation in the Libyan capital of ... 

• UK withdrawing some staff from embassy in Libya

  Britain's Foreign Office says it is temporarily withdrawing some staff from its embassy in the Libyan capital in light of recent political unrest. 

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  Libya's new charter can shoot down contentious law

  A new law that excludes former officials of the Moammar Gadhafi era from public office is dividing Libya and deepening the turmoil plaguing the ... 

• Libya's defense minister rescinds resignation

  Libya's defense minister on Tuesday rescinded his decision to resign in protest over the continuous show of force by militias that stormed government ... 

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  Libya militias not backing down from protest

  A number of Libyan militias refused to back down on Monday from their protests outside government buildings, despite passage of a sweeping law that ... 

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  Anti-militia protest attacked in Libya

  Hundreds of Libyan pro-democracy advocates marched in Tripoli on Friday, denouncing militias' recent blockade of government buildings and coming under ... 

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  Gadhafi's son appears in Libya court; case delayed

  Wearing a sky-blue safari suit and a pair of sandals, the imprisoned son of slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi made his second court appearance this year ... 

• Gunmen surround Libya Foreign Ministry

  Libya's prime minister warned of a perilous security situation Sunday after armed men stormed the Interior Ministry and a state-owned television ... 

• Bomb hits Libya police station in Benghazi

  An explosion hit a police station in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday, a day after militants killed a pro-government militiaman in an ... 

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  Car bomb at French Embassy in Libya wounds 3

  A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside the French Embassy in Tripoli, wounding three people and partially setting the building on fire in the worst ... 

• Libyan prime minister's abducted aide is freed

  A senior Libyan official says that the prime minister's chief of staff has been freed after eight days in captivity by a militia. Deputy Prime ... 

• Libya PM says security weak as aide still missing

  Libya's prime minister says his country is "weak" as militias continue to run prisons and abduct people, including his chief of staff now missing for ... 

• Libya says it should be allowed to try spy chief

  Libya has formally applied to the International Criminal Court to be allowed to put Moammar Gadhafi's former spy chief on trial in Tripoli instead of ... 

• Libyan PM's chief of staff feared abducted

  The Libyan prime minister's chief of staff has disappeared and may have been abducted amid a series of confrontations between the government and ... 

• Protesters end siege of Libyan PM's office

  About 200 militiamen and protesters demanding the resignation of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan have ended their day-long siege of his office, a ... 

• Former rebels besiege Libyan premier's office

  About 200 former rebel fighters in Libya have besieged the prime minister's office, demanding that he resign. The militia members, who did not ... 

• Rights group to Libya: Stop destroying town

  An international rights group on Wednesday urged the Libyan government to halt the "systematic destruction" of a town whose residents backed ousted ...