Libyan leader Moammer Gadhafi addresses General Assembly at United Nations
Libyan leader Moammer Gadhafi addresses the 64th General Assembly at the United Nations on September 23, 2009 in New York City. UPI /Monika Graff
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At least 15 Libyan soldiers were killed and five others were wounded Saturday in an attack on a military checkpoint southeast of Tripoli, Libya, officials said.
"Tainted" death sentences given to former regime officials illustrate the "state of disarray" in Libya's justice system, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
A Russian woman whose alleged killing of a Libyan military officer led to a rush on the Russian Embassy in Tripoli was once a pro powerlifter, officials said.
Libya's interim government is struggling to crank up oil production again after weeks of shutdowns enforced by armed militias and protesting oil workers slashed output from 1.4 million barrels per day to below 200,000 bpd, virtually zero, in September.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Tuesday she was alarmed by the level at which torture took place in Libyan detention centers.
Libya's seemingly endless security crisis has crippled its all-important energy sector, slashing production from 1.4 million barrels per day to as little as 250,000 bpd, and driven off urgently needed foreign investment to develop Libya's battered oil sector.
Libya wants to see members of the former regime of Moammar Gadhafi returned from countries where they found shelter after the war, the prime minister said.
The four-day seizure of an upscale shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, in which dozens of people were killed by a platoon of diehard jihadists of the Somalia-based al-Shabaab group is a fearsome indication of how Islamist terrorism is swelling across Africa.
A Libyan move to set up a commission tasked with examining the human rights record of the Gadhafi regime is a step in the right direction, a U.N. official said.
Syria has provided an outline of its chemical weapons stockpile, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Friday.
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