SAUDI Arabia is withdrawing its ambassador to Libya in what the kingdom called a measured response to reports that Tripoli had plotted to assassinate its crown prince.

The EU ended 11 years of sanctions against Libya and eased an arms embargo today to reward the North African country for giving up plans to develop weapons of mass destruction.

European Union foreign ministers are today expected to drop 11-year old sanctions against Libya and ease a separate arms embargo to reward the North African country for abandoning plans to develop weapons of mass destruction.

EU ambassadors gave provisional approval to a partial lifting of sanctions, including an arms embargo, against Libya yesterday.

EU ambassadors gave provisional approval to a partial lifting of sanctions, including an arms embargo, against Libya today.

The European Union is considering partially lifting sanctions against Libya and was moving toward easing its arms embargo against the country.

Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan would consider a takeover bid from Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Libya had more than 25 tons of mustard gas and the materials to make thousands of tons of sarin nerve gas, international inspectors revealed.

LIBYA has agreed to allow snap UN nuclear arms inspections, just a day after declaring it was giving up plans to build an atomic bomb.

UN diplomats said they would give France more time to reach agreement on its demands for new compensation from Libya for a 1989 bombing of a French airliner before voting to lift sanctions against the North African country. But they stressed that France needs to move quickly.

UN diplomats said they would give France more time to reach agreement on its demands for new compensation from Libya for a 1989 bombing of a French airliner before voting to lift sanctions against the North African country. But they stressed that France needs to move quickly.

LIBYA will pay $10m (€9.1m) to each of the 270 victims of the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing after accepting civil responsibility for the blast, Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham said.

Libya is willing in principle to pay compensation to relatives of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing but is still considering the amount, a minister in Colonel Gaddafi’s government said today.