Word: libyans
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...billion Cost of the Libyan government payroll...
...Since Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program, he has become a friend of the West. Should he be? After years of isolation, Libya is trying to warm up its relations with the international community. Giving up weapons of mass destruction was very important. There are significant interests connected with oil production in Libya and it has joined in the struggle to restrict illegal migration from Africa to Europe. These are real interests to the U.S. and Europe. But for Libya to fit in completely in the framework of normal international relations - which we would also like...
Ports 1961 is the brainchild of Tia Cibani, 33, a designer of Italian-Libyan parentage and Canadian citizenship whose international background and itinerant lifestyle inform the look of her eclectic and coolly modern clothes...
...reach European shores. And with tragic predictablity, the lovely waters have turned lethal. Officials fear that as many as 60 people perished in the open sea near the rocky island over the weekend in two successive wrecks of rickety, overloaded fishing boats that had set off from the Libyan coast...
...Still, it is evident that Europe needs a better strategy than relying on the good will of sunbathers. Italian officials responded to the deaths off Lampedusa by calling on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to live up to agreements to tighten patrols along his country's coastline. Many believe Gaddafi cynically uses the threat of "opening the spigot" on the droves of sub-Saharan Africans gathering on Libyan shorelines in order to gain concessions on outstanding diplomatic questions, including Italian reparations for past colonial injustices. Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo P?rez Rubalcaba is traveling today to Senegal and Mauritania to meet with...