My daughter Denise wants to run away with the circus, and I don’t know what to do.

Margaret Thatcher accused the Irish Government of doing nothing to help extradite a priest who allegedly worked for the IRA, state papers have revealed.

About 100 migrants are missing at sea and feared dead after their boat capsized east of the Libyan capital Tripoli.

A former Naval Service ship, auctioned off to a private broker, has ended up in Libya under control of a man who has been described as his country’s most potent warlord.

Joanne Betty Conlon’s pictures of Limerick in the late 1980s and early 1990s inspired author Kevin Barry to dip into his own memories of that era in his hometown

UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has sidestepped calls to apologise for his comments about clearing bodies from a Libyan city.

The Government has rejected calls for a UK reparations fund for victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA attacks.

Crude headed for its longest run of gains this year as Libya’s biggest oil field suffered another outage while Russia signalled it is weighing an extension of Opec-led production cuts.

The US has bombed an Islamic State camp in Libya, in an effort to kill one of the masterminds behind last summer’s massacre of tourists on a Tunisian beach.

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Six months after the attacks, Tunisia is trying to rebuild its broken tourist industry, says Eoghan Corry.

Two Libyans thought to be involved in carrying out bombing

It’s easy to muster compassion for people fleeing wars, but Europe also needs an influx of workers to counteract its falling birth rates, says Ian Buruma 

Five North African men have been arrested on suspicion of multiple homicide and human trafficking following the catastrophic loss of more than 200 migrant lives, including children, off the coast of Libya on Wednesday.

Hundreds of desperate refugees were charged between $1,200 and $1,800 (€1,100-€1,650) for a place on board the boat which capsized in the Mediterranean.

ITALIAN police yesterday arrested three Libyans and two Algerians accused of human trafficking and multiple homicide in connection with the presumed death by drowning of more than 200 migrants after a ship capsized in the Mediterranean on Wednesday. 

Good evening. Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on IrishExaminer.com today.

Former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi met Irish government officials in late 2010 about a potential €1.4bn Bank of Ireland investment — but pulled out because he did not feel “comfortable” with our control of the financial crisis.

My hat goes off to Victoria White (Irish Examiner, April 23) for pointing out the hypocrisy in Europe’s stance on ‘illegal’ migration.

Italy’s Coast Guard is taking nearly 1,000 migrants to southern ports from several different boat rescues, but 10 migrants died at sea.

They were created by imperial powers, but war and terrorism is posing risks to the shape and future of many nations, writes Shlomo Avineri

A Dubliner who helped overthrow Libyan dictator Colonel Gadaffi has been elected Mayor of the country's capital Tripoli.

The United Nations Security Council yesterday called for an immediate end to hostilities in Gaza as the Palestinian death toll passed 500.

Germany’s US and European allies welcome Berlin’s promise of a more robust foreign and security policy, but with no appetite at home for troops to fight, it may mean little more than extra logistical help and tougher rhetoric.

Dozens of asylum-seekers on a boat that sank near the Italian coast last month with the loss of 366 lives were raped and tortured in Libya before starting their journey, the police said yesterday.

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was abducted by gunmen who snatched him from his hotel and held him for several hours in apparent retaliation for a US special forces raid that captured an al Qaida suspect in Tripoli last weekend.

France has claimed that al-Qaida-linked extremists have been defeated in the key city of Gao in north-eastern Mali.

CIA security officers went to the aid of State Department staff less than 25 minutes after they got the first call for help during the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, intelligence officials have said.

Libyan government forces have captured Muammar Gaddafi’s ex-spokesman outside a besieged town, the prime minister’s office said today as Libyans marked the anniversary of the ousted dictator’s death.

Libya’s president ordered all of the country’s militias to come under government authority or disband, a move that appeared aimed at harnessing popular anger against the powerful armed groups following the attack that killed the US ambassador.

BEFORE he “resigned” last August, Fawzi Abd al-Aali, the former Libyan interior minister, said: “They are armed, I am not going to fight a losing battle and kill my men over a demolished shrine.”

Demonstrators yesterday attacked the US embassies in Yemen and Egypt in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and US warships headed towards Libya after the US ambassador there was killed in related violence this week.

Chanting “death to America,” hundreds of protesters angered by an anti-Islam film stormed the US Embassy compound in Yemen’s capital and burned the American flag today, the latest in a series of attacks on American diplomatic missions in the Middle East.

The US ambassador to Libya and three guards have been killed by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.

A film attacking the prophet Mohammed sparked assaults on US diplomatic missions during which an American was shot dead as protesters burned the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

The man accused of helping in some of the worst crimes committed by ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi has been extradited back to Libya after fleeing to Mauritania.

Libya's National Transitional Council has handed power to a new assembly following the first free elections since the fall of Gaddafi.

Libyans, relieved that their first free national election in 60 years had survived violence and protests, celebrated the chance to draw a line under Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship and forge a brighter future for their country.

Libyans started voting today in the first parliamentary election since last year’s ousting and killing of long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi, taking a major step forward in the country’s tumultuous transition to democratic rule.

Fears of militia violence and calls for a boycott threatened today to mar Libya’s first nationwide parliamentary election.

Attackers set off a bomb next to a wall of the US Consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi today, the US State Department said.

Abdel Baset al Megrahi — a former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing — died at home in Tripoli yesterday nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack’s 270 victims.

A human rights organisation has called on Nato to compensate survivors of airstrikes in Libya which it says killed dozens of civilians.

Libya’s rulers have passed new laws aimed at punishing the loyalists of the country’s deposed ruler, Muammar Gaddafi.

The details of some of Colonel Gaddafi's opponents who had fled to Britain were given to Libyan spies by MI5, it was reported today.

Mauritania said today it has arrested former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, who was one of the most prominent figures from the ousted regime of Muammar Gaddafi and is wanted by the International Criminal Court.