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According to Majdi Al-Bedoui, vice president of Egypt's General Federation of Trade Unions, approximately 1 million Egyptian workers are expected to

April 19, 2021 A high-profile visit by Libya’s new interim prime minister, complete with economic accords, has cheered Turkey up, but Ankara's interests in the war-torn country remain far from guaranteed amid a flurry of rival diplomacy ahead of Libya’s elections in December. The formation of a new unity government in Libya earlier this year has eroded Turkey’s decisive influence over Tripoli under the previous administration, which drew on Turkish military support to save Tripoli from falling and then make gains on the battlefield against rival eastern forces, backed by Egypt, the Unit...

Victims of Libyan sponsored IRA attacks have compiled a dossier on the case for compensation after the Government refused to publish its own report into the issue. Those injured and bereaved by weapons supplied by former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi expressed outrage last month when the Foreign Office said the report it commissioned would remain confidential. The late Colonel Gaddafi armed the IRA with the powerful Semtex plastic explosive used in multiple Troubles bombings such as those targeting Harrods in 1983, the Remembrance Day ceremony in Enniskillen in 1987, Warrington in 1993 and ...

VICTIMS of Libyan-sponsored IRA attacks have compiled a dossier on the case for compensation after the Government refused to publish its own report…

When the Arab Spring protests began 10 years ago, I was covering the Pakistani army’s war against the Pakistan Taliban. It seemed a world away from what I knew as the peaceful streets of Cairo and Tripoli. In fact, when the protests began, my colleagues and I watched the news unfold on Al Jazeera in disbelief that it was happening at all. The day of February 17 – now remembered as the Day of Revolt in Libya – began small. A few gathered in Benghazi, in eastern Libya, inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Then, more people started to arrive. Within a few hours, there were thous...