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• Libya begins payments for terrorism victims
WASHINGTON - Libya has started making payments into a $1.8 billion fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s, another step in the full normalization of long-strained ties between Washington and ...
• Oil falls below $83 on global slowdown fears
On Thursday, the head of Libya’s national oil company, Shukri Ghanem, called on oil producing nations to cut output. “OPEC is trying to jaw-bone the price up, but they’ll have to come into the market because no one is going to be believe just ...
• Sudan's army kills 6 blamed in abduction
... drivers and guides across a barren stretch of the Sahara Desert. They were seized by gunmen on Sept. 19 while on a desert safari in remote southwestern Egypt. Their abductors took them to Sudan. Reports followed that they were then taken to Libya, or ...
• Sudan: Safari hostages taken to Libya
CAIRO, Egypt - A group of kidnappers who abducted a 19-member European tour group during a desert safari moved their captives from Sudan to Libya on Thursday in a new complication to the week-old hostage ordeal, the Sudanese government said. Sudanese ...
• Al-Qaida in North Africa issues new threats
Tunisia he blamed for its social reforms and promotion of rights for women, while he ridiculed Libya's Moammar Gadhafi for his recent diplomatic turnaround in favor of the U.S. Islamists lost the war against the secular-leaning Algerian army in part ...