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...came here just to look for jobs," Agustin told Time last week on a crowded downtown sidewalk, where he washes cars for small change. "Now, since we don't have work, we don't have money. Without money, we cannot get to Europe. It's easy to get into Libya; it's hard to get out." Getting out of Libya - and Africa as a whole - could get harder still. More than 11,000 illegal African immigrants have arrived in Sicily so far this year. The vast majority set off from the Libyan ports of Zlitan and Zuwarah, and land...
...LIFTED. U.S. trade sanctions against LIBYA; after it agreed to eliminate its nuclear-weapon and long-range-missile programs; in Washington, D.C. Long an enemy of the West under leader Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libya has admitted responsibility for the 1988 downing of a Pan Am jet in which 259 people died, along with a spate of other terrorist attacks in the 1980s. The U.S. relaxed most sanctions against Libya last April, but still considers it a "state sponsor of terrorism." The recent agreements could result in direct air service between the two countries and the possible importation of Libyan...
Students can pressure their university endowments to think twice about investing in companies with commercial activity in Sudan, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and Libya. Congress has already introduced bipartisan legislation (H.R. 5061) that would limit Sudan’s access to US capital markets and mandate disclosure of all US commercial activity in Sudan. And in August, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the Center for Security Policy, released a report entitled “The Terrorism Investment of the 50 States” demanding more security responsible investing by America’s top public pension systems...
...estimated 16,000 troops it has stationed in Lebanon since 1976. A Sept. 2 U.N. Security Council resolution called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon. The withdrawal was part of a wider redeployment exercise involving a total of 3,000 soldiers. The Thaw Continues LIBYA In a further sign of Tripoli's diplomatic rehabilitation, E.U. ambassadors agreed to lift both trade sanctions and a ban on arms sales to Libya. The decision, which must be ratified at a meeting of E.U. Foreign Ministers in mid-October, came two days after U.S. President George W. Bush formally lifted...
...Gross survived a mandatory vote of confidence in parliament, winning by just 101 votes to 99. Gross replaced fellow Social Democrat Vladimír Spidla, who resigned in June following the party's poor performance in European elections. Gross, at 34, is Europe 's youngest premier. Stemming the Tide LIBYA Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for talks on ways to stop illegal immigrants from Africa using Libya as a launch pad to reach Italy . A day earlier, a boat believed to have departed from Libya and carrying 275 migrants was intercepted off the coast...