ALMOST £1 billion (€1.07bn) of Libyan currency held in Britain will be released to the country’s central bank after the UN Sanctions Committee approved the measure.

TWO men targeted by the Irish and British Governments under international anti-terrorist measures yesterday lost their European legal battle to be removed from a list of suspects.

The United Nations Security Council today voted to revive Iraq’s oil-for-food programme in a bid to avoid a humanitarian disaster in the war-ravaged state.