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A source close to Libya's ruling National Transitional Council denied that spokesman of the fallen Muammar Gadhafi administration had been arrested.
The European Union, the World Bank and Switzerland pledged to facilitate recovering the assets of former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family, the official press agency TAP reported Thursday.
Moussa Ibrahim, spokesman of the fallen administration of Muammar Gadhafi, has been arrested, a local Libyan television reported Thursday.
Tunisian prosecutors have received a request from the new Libyan authorities to extradite Muammar Gadhafi's former prime minister, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, and are therefore keeping him in jail, Mahmoudi's lawyer said on Thursday.
Somali pirates have released a Greek owned bulk carrier with 24 crew members in the Gulf of Aden, about 490 nautical miles southwest of Oman, EU anti-piracy taskforce said on Thursday.
Libya's new rulers said on Wednesday they believed fugitive former leader Muammar Gadhafi was being shielded by nomadic tribesmen in the desert near the Algerian border.
Although the whereabouts of fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi remains a mystery, a spokesman of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) said that he know where two of Gaddafi's sons are.
The ruling authorities of Libya is willing to cooperate in the investigation on the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the interim government's Justice Minister Mohammed al- Allagi said Wednesday.
An extremely rare South China tiger has been killed by another on a South African reserve dedicated to saving the species from extinction, the conservation group behind the project said.
An email, saying it was sent by a Nigerian militant group based in the oil-producing Niger Delta, said on Wednesday it would bomb the capital Abuja on Independence Day on October 1.
Muammar Gadhafi is believed to be hiding near the western Libyan town of Ghadamis under the protection of Touareg tribesmen, a senior Libyan military official said.
The death toll from clashes after a soccer match in Western Sahara on Sunday has reached seven, Morocco's MAP official news agency reported on Tuesday, in the desert territory's worst bout of violence since November.
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