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  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    Terrorism
    US charges new suspect over 1988 Lockerbie bombing

    Justice department unseals indictment accusing Libyan man of building explosive device

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    ReviewPolitical books
    How autocracies endure

    The Arab uprising fuelled hopes of sweeping change. Three books explore why that did not happen as expected.

  • Wednesday, 3 June, 2020
    David Gardner
    In Libya the west is strengthening its adversaries

    Halfhearted interventions have made a bad situation worse

  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    Libya
    Libya oil output set to hit lowest level since Gaddafi’s fall

    NOC head says blockade by strongman Haftar has forced shutdown

  • Friday, 12 April, 2019
    Person in the News
    Khalifa Haftar, Gaddafi’s old foe, plays for power

    The strongman who controls eastern Libya has moved to seize Tripoli

  • Thursday, 10 May, 2018
    UK politics & policy
    UK apologises for ‘appalling’ treatment of Libyan

    MI6 assisted Gaddafi regime in detention of Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar

  • Friday, 13 April, 2018
    Syrian crisis
    The danger of repeating past mistakes in Syria

    We must not confuse a military response with the need to intervene for humanitarian reasons

  • Wednesday, 21 March, 2018
    French politics
    Sarkozy under formal investigation over Libyan funds

    Ex-French president faces probe over alleged Gaddafi donations

  • Tuesday, 20 March, 2018
    World
    Sarkozy in police custody over alleged Libya funds

    Former French president summoned in probe into financing of successful 2007 election

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    Just as Mao meeting was all about the Soviets, these talks will be all about China

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    Emerging markets
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  • Wednesday, 2 August, 2017
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    SocGen net profit down 28% in Q2 on legal costs
  • Friday, 26 May, 2017
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Libya’s civil war comes home to Manchester

    Terror attack puts focus on failed state whose troubles have been overshadowed by Syria

  • Friday, 26 May, 2017
    Terrorism in UK
    Imam at Manchester bomber’s mosque fought in Libya

    ‘A lot of people’ from mosque took part in revolution against Muammer Gaddafi

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2017
    InterviewOil
    Libya seeks oil investment to back output surge

    Mustafa Sanalla says production could jump almost 70% if he can attract more money

  • Friday, 11 November, 2016
    ReviewTelevision
    HyperNormalisation — documentary review

    Adam Curtis’s film takes in Trump, Assad and much besides but lacks coherence

  • Thursday, 29 September, 2016
    Financial services
    Och-Ziff to pay $413m to settle Africa bribery probe
  • Sunday, 18 September, 2016
    Fund management
    The week’s news in brief: September 19

    US prosecutors pursuing alleged bribery in Africa have Och-Ziff, the hedge fund, in their sights

  • Wednesday, 14 September, 2016
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    Why Cameron’s Libya effort was disastrous Premium

    The former UK prime minister has repeated many Iraq war mistakes, writes Sebastian Payne

  • Tuesday, 6 September, 2016
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    Putin’s balance sheet in the Middle East

    All in all the president’s record looks good, but with achievements that keep the US off balance

  • Monday, 1 August, 2016
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    US launches air strikes against Isis in Libya

    Bombing raids to aid advances by UN-backed government forces

  • Wednesday, 20 July, 2016
    World
    Three French soldiers killed in Libya

    First acknowledgment by Paris that special forces operate there

  • Thursday, 14 July, 2016
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    National Crime Agency is seizing Wembley house to settle unpaid tax bill

  • Sunday, 12 June, 2016
    World
    Libyans seek western arms to take Sirte

    Isis snipers have taken position in the city armed with rifles that can hit targets 2km away

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2016
    UK politics & policy
    Prosecutor drops Libya charges against MI6

    Insufficient evidence of role in renditions to warrant prosecution, says CPS after reviewing case

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