Saif Gaddafi’s mention of court gives hope for IRA victims
Jason McCue, lawyer for the IRA victims and their families,
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Hundreds are killed in clashes in Libya as pressure mounts on leader Colonel Gaddafi amid reports he could make a speech “shortly”. Channel 4 News hears from an eyewitness to the violence.
Colonel Gaddafi’s son vows the Libyan regime will fight until the “last man standing”, as an engineer in Tripoli tells Channel 4 News the city is shaking.
The Libyan government’s extreme use of force threatens to fan the flames of dissent, writes former British Ambassador to Libya, Sir Richard Dalton, for Channel 4 News.
There was one bright spot in the Prime Minister’s day at the UN on Thursday. Colonel Gaddafi did not bother to turn up for the security council meeting. It’s just a coincidence that Libya happens to hold one of the rotating seats on the council at the moment but we all expected it was a…
Quick update on Gaddafi’s accommodation whilst he is enjoying his first visit to New York: Having been denied permission to erect his huge Bedouin tent anywhere in the city he’s had to sleep in the office block that also serves as Libya’s diplomatic HQ at the UN. We saw him leave there this morning serenaded…
No wonder New Yorkers hate it so much when the UN General Assembly comes to town. I myself have sore feet after I had to make a 12 block detour to get back to my hotel room, all because Colonel Gaddafi was arriving in town and New York’s finest took this as an excuse to…
Here’s an African love story. Adebe married her childhood sweetheart, Daniel, in Addis Ababa when she was 22. The trouble was, although Daniel was born in Ethiopia, he was of Eritrean stock, and when the two countries went to war, he was deported to Asmara, the Eritrean capital, where he was forced to join the…
Jason McCue, lawyer for the IRA victims and their families,
Thirty-seven years after police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead outside the Libyan Embassy in London, one of her fellow officers has brought a civil case to the High Court in a bid to have someone held to account for the incident.
A showdown between Kalifa Haftar’s forces and militia supporting the government in the capital could plunge Libya into another spasm of violence.
Dozens die as Libya’s worst bomb attack since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi hits a police training centre where hundreds of recruits were gathering for a morning meeting.
Libya confirms the names of two men Scottish and US prosecutors want to interview about the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
David Cameron’s foreign policy record has been criticised by a top military figure and a high profile Conservative, Lord Ashcroft has claimed in his explosive biography.
The death sentences passed down on eight Gaddafi era officials, including the dictator’s son Saif al Islam, are unlikely to cause much outrage in Libya. In fact, they may be a cause for celebration.
As Italian prosecutors arrest the captain and a crew member of the boat on which as many as 900 people may have drowned, Italian police are also cracking down on people smugglers.