The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor conceded on Tuesday that the captured son of Muammar Gaddafi may be tried in Libya rather than in The Hague, meaning he faces the death penalty if convicted.
Saif-al Islam Gadhafi, the son of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, can and will be tried for crimes against humanity in Libya, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo conceded on Tuesday.
Tunisia's Islamist-led ruling coalition will keep the country's ministers of defence and finance and the central bank governor in their posts when it announces a new government, a senior coalition source told Reuters on Monday.
Libya's prime minister-designate said on Monday he was ready to name a government to steer the country to its first fully democratic elections but gave no details of a line-up that may involve a delicate power balance in a fragile new state.
Moammar Gadhafi information minister Abdullah al-Senoussi was captured alive by Libyan fighters in the south on the country on Sunday.
Moammar Gadhafi's brother-in-law and spy chief, Abdullah al-Sanussi, was captured Sunday near the city of Sabha in the southern Libya desert after being on the run for around three months, the new government said.
Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam has been captured in Libya's southern desert, scared and with only a handful of supporters, by fighters who vow to hold him in the mountain town of Zintan until there is a government to hand him over to.
As Libyan's celebrate Saif al-Islam's Friday capture, it brings to mind the question of what happened to all of Gaddafi's children.
The son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is being held by Zintani rebels, authorities confirm, and will face trial for crimes against humanity. But will Saif al-Islam be tried in Libya, or by the International Criminal Court? And what role did al-Islam, once a Western-styled reformer, play in the brutal repression of the February uprisings?
Saif al-Islam, the wanted son of deceased Libyan dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi, has been detained, along with several of his bodyguards, in the southern desert near Obari, Libya's interim justice minister and other officials confirmed Saturday.
Moammar Gadhafi's son and heir apparent Saif al-Islam has been detained in the southern desert, Libya's interim justice minister and other officials said on Saturday.
U.S. presidential hopeful Herman Cain believes the Taliban is involved in the new Libyan government, the candidate indicated Friday.
How would a no-fly zone affect the Syrian uprising?
The Arab League and Turkey have called for urgent measures to protect civilians from Assad’s brutal crackdown.
Libya has told Egyptians they will need visas to enter the country, Egypt's state news agency said on Wednesday, after Egypt imposed travel restrictions on Libyans during the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
Libya's wartime rebel prime minister said his country faces a lengthy and dangerous power vacuum where foreign powers may exploit rival militias on the streets and he called for a dramatic acceleration in plans for full elections.
A budget crunch in Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarchy, has reached a critical stage with the government struggling to maintain spending on HIV/AIDS, education and the elderly, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.
Newt Gingrich is the latest of the anti-Romneys: the constantly churning field of candidates who, for a few days or weeks, are trumpeted as the definitive conservative challenger to Mitt Romney before falling back into the abyss. But can he maintain his lead where others didn't?
Syrian army defectors attacked an intelligence complex on the edge of Damascus early Wednesday, the first such reported assault on a major security facility in the eight-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
Herman Cain, the Republican Presidential runner, had another 'oops' moment. This time he was interviewed by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and was asked, “So you agreed with President Obama on Libya, or not?”
Libya's National Transitional Council is furious that Niger offered amnesty to Moammar Gadhafi's son Saadi Gadhafi.
Former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's obsession with virgin bodyguards is known to the whole world, but the recent revelation by one of Gadhafi's close associates is something more than just obsession.
