Rice in historic trip to one-time enemy Libya

TOP US diplomat Condoleezza Rice will make a landmark trip to Libya this week, the first by a US secretary of state in more than half a century.

Her trip is a tangible sign of warming US-Libya relations, which first began to thaw when Tripoli gave up its weapons of mass destruction program in 2003.

“It is a historic stop,” said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack. “It certainly does mark a new chapter in US-Libya relations.”