AP - Europe and the United States are preparing to unfreeze billions of dollars in Libyan assets that will be crucial to the country's success after Moammar Gadhafi.
TORONTO — The family of a Canadian woman accused of trying to smuggle the son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi into Mexico says her case is approaching a crucial turning point.
Cynthia Vanier, who’s been sitting in a Mexico prison for more than a year, is currently waiting to make her closing statement before a judge, who will then decide whether to send the case to trial or drop the charges against her.
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, who holds increasing sway over the Italian economy, upset some Italians by urging conversion to Islam during a three-day visit to the home of Roman Catholicism.
[AP] - Oil prices hovered below $104 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as traders eyed gains by Libyan rebels seeking to topple Moammar Gadhafi and restart crude exports from the OPEC nation.
Switzerland’s government has moved to freeze any assets in the country’s banks that might belong to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero met to ready an EU-Africa summit scheduled for later this year, Jana news agency said.The two leaders on Thursday stressed "the importance of preparing the third EU-Africa summit well, so it will contribute to the development of Africa and do away with clandestine immigration" to Europe, the agency said.They also discussed the situation in Iraq and in the Palestinian territories.