Word: tripoli
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...bluffing. Within days, as throngs rioted in front of Switzerland's embassy in Tripoli, the Libyan government shut down local subsidiaries of Swiss companies Nestlé and ABB, arrested two Swiss citizens, canceled most flights to Switzerland, and, on Thursday afternoon, announced that all Swiss-bound oil exports will be stopped until charges against the Gaddafis are dropped and the Swiss offer their apologies...
...gallon will not increase. Hartl says the country has sufficient reserves to last four and a half months - "enough time to find other sources, such as African and central Asian countries." Meanwhile, a hastily arranged Swiss delegation headed by Foreign Affairs Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey was dispatched to Tripoli yesterday to keep the crisis from escalating further. Given the ire in Libya, that might be one of the toughest tests of diplomacy the normally unctuous Swiss have ever faced...
Each year since Colonel Muammar Gaddafi seized power in 1969, Libya has celebrated the day that he expelled U.S. military personnel from Wheelus Air Base, outside Tripoli. It was widely assumed that Gaddafi would use last week's 16th anniversary of the occasion to make his first live public appearance since U.S. warplanes attacked Tripoli and Benghazi last April. Western reporters were invited to Tripoli and advised to expect a major speech. Gaddafi never turned up. An apathetic crowd of 2,000 Libyans who gathered in Tripoli instead heard a harangue, apparently videotaped earlier, that raised doubts about how much...
...most precious is Ghadames, an old oasis town 380 miles (611 km) south of Tripoli. Until the 19th century, it was one of the principal trading posts of the Sahara, selling everything from ivory to incense to ostrich eggs. Beginning in the '70s, the locals largely abandoned the old town in favor of a new city with wide roads and air-conditioning; they only began returning a decade ago, after investment from the U.N. Development Programme helped to restore some of Ghadames' former charms...
...embrace nations who take the road toward respectability, what do we say to those who take that road in the opposite direction?" asked Sarkozy in Lisbon. Other leaders seem to agree. Last May, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair hailed "completely transformed" relations between London and Tripoli, the "very strong cooperation on counter-terrorism and defense" - and, not incidentally, greater business opportunities for British companies seeking work on the largest oil reserves in Africa, which Libya houses. Similar trips by German and American officials to discuss strategic and business cooperation with the Libyan regime have been regular occurrences over...