Turkey’s prime minister has urged the United Nations not to impose sanctions on Libya, warning today that the Libyan people would suffer most, not Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.

Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is arming civilian supporters in order to quash dissent in Tripoli with checkpoints and roving patrols, the capital’s residents claimed today.

Libyan protesters and security forces battled for control of Tripoli’s city centre overnight, with snipers opening fire and Muammar Gaddafi supporters shooting from speeding vehicles, witnesses have said.

Libya is in talks with the British government about a potential compensation deal for victims of Tripoli-backed IRA terrorism, it was revealed today.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she’s excited about a landmark trip she will make to Libya today, becoming the highest-ranking American official to visit the North African country in more than a half-century.

IN light of the current disproportionate response of the Chinese government in occupied Tibet, various individuals and organisations in Ireland who have expressed concern over similar occurrences in other parts of the world should now give voice to their revulsion at these excesses.

they tend to do when one of theirs has fallen, world leaders converged from near and far for the state funeral of Ronald Reagan who gently steered the Cold War towards a peaceful end.

Libya’s return to the international fold was under threat today amid claims that leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi approved plans to assassinate the ruler of Saudi Arabia.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday shook hands with Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in the latest stage of the international rehabilitation of the man once branded "the mad dog of the Middle East".

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was flying into Tripoli today for controversial talks with Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.