Reuters - Three more kg (6.6 pounds) of weapons-capable highly enriched uranium have been removed from Libya, bringing to 20 kg (44 pounds) the total put under international control since the country abandoned its nuclear arms program in 2003, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

AFP - Libya was on the verge of building a nuclear bomb before it decided in 2003 to abandon its programme to produce weapons of mass destruction, its leader Moamer Kadhafi has said, according to the country's official news agency.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, whose country abandoned weapons of mass destruction programs in 2003, says that at one stage Libya had come close to building a nuclear bomb. In a speech to Libyan engineers, Gaddafi says, "It is true that Libya came close to building a nuclear bomb. This is no...

Reuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, whose country abandoned weapons of mass destruction programmes in 2003, said at one stage Libya had come close to building a nuclear bomb, the Libyan news agency reported on Monday.

AP - Spain and four other countries have agreed to take in 51 Africans who have spent a week crammed aboard a small Spanish trawler that rescued them in waters off Malta, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

AFP - US Middle East envoy David Welch held talks with Libyan officials on strengthening economic and financial ties between the two countries, officials said.

AFP - The United States has lifted sanctions on Libyan air transport, an official in Tripoli said, the latest sign of warming ties between the two former foes.

AP - A leading Islamic cleric called on Somalis to prepare to fight Ethiopian troops believed to have entered into Somalia, where Islamic militias now control a significant portion of the country.

Reuters - With the United States set to take Libya off its list of state sponsors of terror, U.S. lawmakers criticized the Bush administration on Wednesday for failing to push Tripoli hard enough make final payments to the families of victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

AP - A House committee went on record Tuesday against any normalization of U.S. relations with Libya until Tripoli pays all compensation due to families of people killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.

AP - A judge Tuesday sped up the retrial of Bulgarian nurses charged with infecting children with the AIDS virus, ruling that the court would convene every week until a verdict was reached.

Reuters - The trial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV was postponed for a second time on Tuesday to give lawyers more time to prepare evidence.

Reuters - The U.S. Senate unanimously urged President George W. Bush to hold off restoring diplomatic relations with Libya unless it continues to make restitution to families of those killed in a flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, nearly 18 years ago.

AP - Families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 said Wednesday that Congress must ensure Libya abides by its agreement to pay the remainder of the $2.7 billion compensation owed to them.

AP - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who is reconnecting his nation to the U.S. and to global energy companies, met for talks about oil Wednesday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is moving his country in a different direction.

AP - Venezuela's anti-American president was given a warm welcome in the Libyan capital Wednesday by Col. Moammar Gadhafi, whose authoritarian regime was removed only this week from Washington's list of countries that sponsor terrorism.

Canadian Press - TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - With the last vestiges of U.S. sanctions swept away, Moammar Gadhafi's bid to bring Libya back into the diplomatic mainstream has scored a stunning success. Gadhafi's next goal: an economic revival funded by the doubling of oil production in the coming decade.

AFP - Libya is basking in a new era of ties with the United States after Washington's announcement of a resumption of full diplomatic relations, emphasising no concessions had been made to ensure the rapprochement.

AP - The restoration of U.S.-Libyan diplomatic relations was criticized Monday by Libyan opposition leaders, who said it would hurt efforts to secure basic freedoms in the Middle Eastern country.

Reuters - The United States restored full diplomatic ties with Libya on Monday, rewarding the longtime pariah nation for scrapping its weapons of mass destruction programs.