Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy starts five-year jail term
Sarkozy was convicted of criminal conspiracy for seeking campaign funds for 2007 election from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.
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CIA chief visits Libya after Lockerbie suspect handover
William Burns makes a rare trip to Libya, meeting the country’s interim prime minister and his rival, Khalifa Haftar.
UN postpones decision on ambassadors from Myanmar, Taliban, Libya
UN recognising ambassadors from Myanmar’s military, the Taliban, and Libya’s east would be seen a conferring legitimacy.
Libyan man suspected of making Lockerbie bomb in US custody
Man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 taken into US custody.
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Libyan court reinstates Saif Gaddafi as presidential candidate
Court in Sebha overturns electoral commission’s decision to nullify Saif al-Islam’s candidacy for December polls.
![Saif al-Islam, who is wanted by the ICC for alleged war crimes, had registered to run in the next month's elections [File: Khaled al-Zaidy/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-11-14T000000Z_740327296_RC2BUQ9W8N6K_RTRMADP_3_LIBYA-ELECTION-GADDAFI.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Gaddafi’s son to run for president of Libya
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi registered as a presidential candidate for the December 24 poll, the electoral commission says.
In Libya, a Gaddafi makes a play for power
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former leader Muammar Gaddafi, is trying to overcome his past before elections.
Photographing the final days of Gaddafi and his last stronghold
A photojournalist describes capturing some of the most memorable moments of the war in Libya.
![Anti-Gaddafi fighters from Benghazi engage in a firefight with snipers who are loyalists to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi during a street fight in Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, Libya, on October 19, 2011 [Mauricio Lima]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ML02.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)