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Seif al-Islam Gaddafi speaks to the media at a press conference in a hotel in Tripoli, Libya., February 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
February 3, 2026, 11:15 pm
Son of late Libyan dictator Gaddafi said killed in his home outside Tripoli
Circumstances of Seif al-Islam Gaddafi’s death not immediately clear; father Muammar ruled country for 40 years before being killed in 2011 civil war that plunged country into chaos
By Agencies
FILE: France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy leaves his residence to present himself to La Sante Prison for incarceration on a five-year prison sentence on October 21, 2025. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
November 10, 2025, 4:40 pm
French court frees former president Nicolas Sarkozy from jail, pending appeal
Ex-leader set to go free 20 days after beginning 5-year sentence over a scheme to secure campaign funds from Gaddafi’s Libya, with appeal meaning he’s again presumed innocent
By Alexandre Marchand and Eleonore Dermy
France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy (C), with his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, leaves his residence to present himself to La Sante Prison for incarceration on a five-year prison sentence, on October 21, 2025. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
October 21, 2025, 12:08 pm
Ex-French president Sarkozy starts 5-year prison sentence over funds from Gaddafi scandal
Sarkozy to be held in isolation, will get 3 visits a week, prison officials say; supporters gather outside former leader’s home, as he maintains his innocence in affair
By Nicolas Gaudichet and Phenix Kim
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy leaves in front of his wife French-Italian singer Carla Bruni after the verdict in his trial for illegal campaign financing from Libya for his successful 2007 presidential bid, at the Tribunal de Paris courthouse in Paris, on September 25, 2025. (Julien De Rosa/AFP)
September 26, 2025, 4:06 am
French ex-president Sarkozy sentenced to 5 years for seeking funds from Gaddafi
France’s former head of state convicted of criminal conspiracy for attempting to raise campaign money from Libyan strongman, with sentence to take effect immediately
By Juliette Jabkhiro, Lucien Libert and Ingrid Melander
In this undated 1969 photo, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, left, is seen with Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, in Suez, Egypt. (AP Photo/ Farouk Ibrahim)
April 29, 2025, 8:06 pm
Egypt’s Nasser said in 1970 he had ‘no interest’ in Palestinian cause, recording reveals
Audio released by Nasser’s son of conversation with Libya’s Gaddafi said to raise questions among president’s critics over his publicly militant persona
By Lazar Berman and AFP
Left: Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announces he is seeking arrest warrants from the court’s judges for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, along with Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif and Ismail Haniyeh, on May 20, 2024 (ICC); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video address, May 20, 2024. (Screenshot/ GPO)
May 20, 2024, 8:37 pm
Legal earthquake: ICC charges against Netanyahu would be unprecedented in court’s history
Court may take weeks or months to approve warrants. Gravest charges of crimes against humanity relate to humanitarian crisis in Gaza, alleged use of starvation as tool of war
By Jeremy Sharon
In this photo provided by Turkey's IHH humanitarian aid group, rescuers retrieve the body of a flooding victim in Derna, Libya, Wednesday, Sept.13, 2023. Search teams are combing streets, wrecked buildings, and even the sea to look for bodies in Derna, where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed thousands of people. (IHH via AP)
September 15, 2023, 4:03 am
Flooding death toll soars to 11,300 in Libya’s coastal city of Derna, aid group says
Search efforts underway following massive flood in coastal city fed by breaching of two dams in heavy rains caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel
By AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at joint statement with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on September 3, 2023 in Cyprus (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
September 5, 2023, 1:39 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 5: PM talks pipelines in Cyprus; no deal on judicial overhaul
Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn discusses latest compromise efforts, plus PM’s trip to Cyprus; Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani looks at Libyan Jewish perspective
By ToI Staff
Libyans burn tires as they protest in Tripoli on August 28, 2023, after news broke of a recent meeting between the country's foreign minister and her Israeli counterpart. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP)
August 29, 2023, 4:19 pm
Libya’s anti-Israel protests fueled by rage at unelected leaders clinging to power
Though Israel certainly isn’t popular, citizens have more to worry about than normalization, which is seen as a ruse by the elites to win Western support while avoiding elections
By Lazar Berman
Libyan-Italian psychologist David Gerbi (left) during a visit to Tripoli, Libya, in 2011 (Courtesy)
August 29, 2023, 10:30 am
Recalling ‘cruelty’ of former homeland, some Libyan Jews cast wary eye on contacts
Several exiles say little to gain from Israel ties, others want access to community’s forsaken heritage sites, and one man reveals his own role in years of high-level interaction
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush (right) and Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, pictured February 6, 2023 at the Vittoria Naval Shipyard in Adria, northeastern Italy, at a ceremony to hand over to the Libyan authorities a newly-built TS-LCG 300 class patrol boat. Tajani is said to have helped arrange Mangoush's August 2023 meeting with Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in Rome. (MARCO SABADIN / AFP)
August 29, 2023, 1:04 am
FM Mangoush seen as scapegoat for an Israel meet all Libya’s rival leaders knew about
Libya’s first female foreign minister, sacked and believed to be in Turkey, has been used as ‘the fall person for decisions they all partook in,’ says one analyst
By AFP
Libyan Minister of Media, Culture and Antiquities Omar Al-Gawairi, (left) with Israeli Communications Minister Ayoub Kara, (center) and the Chairman of the Union of Libyan Jews, Raphael Luzon, (right) in Rhodes, Greece, on June 30, 2017. (Ayoub Kara/Facebook - used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 28, 2023, 8:02 am
Peace with Libya is doubtful, but contact, aided by local Jews, started years ago
Raphael Luzon claims he initiated the first bilateral meeting that led to the top-level meeting in Rome last week, which Tripoli now disavows
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, alleged to have made the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, with the loss of 270 lives in 1988, in custody at the Alexandria Adult Detention Center, December 12, 2022, in Alexandria, Virginia. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP)
December 18, 2022, 6:02 am
Libyan militia held suspected Lockerbie bombmaker before he was handed over to US
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, explosives expert for Libya’s intelligence service, was captured in mid-November nighttime raid in Tripoli, Libyan officials reveal
By Samy Magdy
In this Nov. 14, 1991, file photo, then-Assistant Attorney General Robert Mueller points to a photo of the reconstructed wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people. (AP/Barry Thumma)
December 12, 2022, 2:30 am
Lockerbie bomb suspect announcement puts spotlight back on decades-old investigation
US authorities have long pursued those behind 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103, though only sought Abu Agila Mas’ud after he admitted to building explosive following 2017 arrest in Libya
By ADAM GELLER
The abandoned Jewish synagogue, known as Dar Bishi, in the Old City of Tripoli, Libya's capital, April 12, 2015. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP via Getty Images)
December 8, 2022, 8:11 am
Libyan Jews whose graves were bulldozed during Gaddafi era remembered in Rome
Names of 1,800 deceased memorialized on series of marble plaques in Italian Jewish cemetery after former North African dictator destroyed nearly all Jewish grave sites
By David I. Klein
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