Tripoli - Libyan separatists loaded oil onto a North Korean tanker for a second consecutive day on Sunday, ignoring the central government's threats of military action, an industry official said.The separatists are former rebels who have turned against the inter...

Tripoli - Libyan separatists loaded oil onto a North Korean tanker for a second consecutive day on Sunday, ignoring the central government's threats of military action, an industry official said.The separatists are former rebels who have turned against the inter...

Benghazi - Libya threatened to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker at an oil terminal held by militants in the restive east, saying it was being loaded illegally.Separatists blockading Al-Sidra facility attempted to load crude aboard the Morning Glory in the lates...

Benghazi - Libya threatened Saturday to bomb a North Norean-flagged tanker, which is suspected of trying to load an illegal cargo at the Al-Sidra oil terminal, if the vessel does not leave port.Militants blockading the terminal in eastern Libya had been trying to...

Tripoli - Angry protesters in Libya stormed the General National Congress (GNC)) in downtown Tripoli and entered the building Sunday (March 2). Protesters demanded the dissolution of the GNC.

Tripoli - Libyan authorities vowed Monday to pursue a democratic transition in the face of mounting lawlessness after two MPs were shot when protesters stormed the country's transitional parliament.The two General National Congress members were shot and wounded ...

Tripoli - Two members of Libya's interim parliament were shot and wounded by protesters who stormed the General National Congress in downtown Tripoli on Sunday, officials and witnesses said.The GNC, elected after the 2011 armed uprising that toppled autocratic l...

Tripoli - Libya's oil production has dropped to 230,000 barrels per day from 570,000 bpd in early January after the closure of Al-Sharara field in the south, state-owned National Oil Corp said Sunday.The drop is the latest blow to the oil-rich but strife-hit Nor...

Tripoli - Although it is almost three years since Ghadafi ruled in Libya, President Obama claims that Libya is still a threat to U,S, national interests.

Tripoli - Today LIbyans voted for a sixty member commission to draw up a new constitution. Twenty members each will be elected in the three main regions of Libya; Tripolitania in the west, Cyrenaica in the east, and Fezzan in the south.

Tripoli - Libyans go to the polls on Thursday to elect a constituent assembly in the latest milestone in the chaotic political transition from the ousted dictatorship of Moamer Kadhafi.But there was none of the voter enthusiasm that marked Libya's first free ele...

Tripoli - Libya's interim assembly said it was facing an impending "coup" Tuesday after ex-rebel militias gave it a five-hour deadline to hand over power.The potential crisis comes exactly three years after the start of the Arab Spring uprising that toppled dict...

Tripoli - Two powerful militias in Libya demanded that the General National Congress (GNC) members step down as its mandate ran out on February 7th. The GNC extended its term earlier this month, although the move had prompted protests.

Tripoli - According to a local official in the town of Zliten, 92 prisoners managed to escape from a prison in the town due to weak security. Only four guards were on duty when the escape happened.

Tripoli - Small businesses are prospering in Libya's major cities even as the economy at large is being throttled because of security problems and industrial action which has shrunk lifeline oil revenues.Its financial woes combined with lawlessness has so far di...

Happisburgh - Human footprints have been discovered on a beach on the Norfolk coastline in England, said to be more than 800,000 years old. The footprints are the oldest discovered outside the African continent.

This documentary, which runs to nearly an hour and a half, makes a number of outrageous claims about the late Libyan leader. It remains to be seen how many of them are true.

Tripoli - Libya has completely destroyed the chemical arsenal it inherited from Moamer Kadhafi, 10 years after the now slain dictator signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz announced Tuesday.

Benghazi - Ali Zeidan, Libyan Prime Minister, claimed today (February 3) that he had ordered Libyan armed forces to lift the blockade on oil export terminals enforced by protesters in the eastern part of Libya drastically reducing the export of oil.

Paris - A French channel is set to broadcast a 2011 interview in which late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi insults former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and says he funded Sarkozy's election campaign.