Washington, May 24 (ANI): HSBC's controversial 1.9 billion-dollar settlement deal with American authorities over money laundering charges, has been stalled after a row between the Department of Justice and the judge overseeing the case.

London, May 16 (ANI): The White House has released e-mails related to the attack on the US diplomatic mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi on 11 September 2012.

London, May 6 (ANI): Libya's parliament has passed a law banning officials from the Gaddafi era from holding political office.

London, Apr. 29 (ANI): Diplomats have warned of growing Islamist violence against western targets in Libya as blowback from the war in Mali, following last week's attack on the French embassy in Tripoli.

Beijing, Apr. 25 (Xinhua-ANI): A Libyan captain and a Turkish on a Libya-flagged ship were arrested by the Turkish police on suspicion of loading weapons for Libya, local media reported Thursday.

New Delhi, Apr. 12 (ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed will be paying a three-day visit to Libya beginning on April 14 during which he is scheduled to meet his Libyan counterpart and other high dignitaries.

Washington, Apr 10 (ANI): Libyan weapons are spreading at 'an alarming rate' to new territory in west Africa and the eastern Mediterranean including Syria and the Gaza Strip, a U.N. has panel said.

London, Apr. 7 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was told that Iraq had only a trivial amount of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and that Libya was in this respect a far greater threat.

London, Apr. 3 (ANI): Late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's daughter has been granted asylum in Oman after she was thrown out of her Algerian safe-house because she repeatedly set it on fire in fits of anger.

Islamabad, Mar 39 (ANI): Libyan deputy Prime Minister Awad al-Barassi has revealed two British activists of Pakistani origin with a humanitarian convoy destined for the Gaza Strip were subjected to a brutal gang rape by five men in front of their father in eastern city of Benghazi.

Muscat:, Mar. 26 (ANI): Oman has granted asylum to late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's widow and her family on humanitarian grounds, an official at the foreign ministry has said.

Sydney, Mar. 25 (ANI): A ship that was originally ordered for deposed Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi has been changed into a luxury cruise service in Italy by the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).

London, Mar 20 (ANI): A close aide and cousin of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been arrested in Egypt.

Tripoli, March 15 (Xinhua-ANI): An unknown armed group set fire to the building of an Egyptian Coptic church on Thursday in Benghazi, Libya's second largest city, according to witnesses.

Washington, Mar. 6 (ANI): Shortly after the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya was attacked in September 2012, a phone call was made from the area to al Qaeda leader.

Damascus, March 3 (Xinhua-ANI): Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has stressed that his departure will not stop the fighting in Syria, adding that it's "nonsense" to suggest that the conflict in the country is about the president and his future.

London, Mar 1 (ANI): The new Libyan government has poured cold water on hopes of British police expecting a more open investigation in to the Lockerbie bombing case after Muammar Gaddafi's ouster, saying the case is now 'closed'.

Washington, Feb 27 (ANI): The weapons that helped Libyan rebels oust dictator Muammar Gaddafi have been put up for sale at auctions in Egypt's lawless Sinai Desert, where shadowy buyers purchase firearms for Al-Qaeda and Hamas operatives, it has emerged.

London, Feb. 19 (ANI): Western diplomats have accused Russia of breaking a pledge to stop supplying arms to the Syrian regime.

London, Feb. 19 (ANI): Egypt's telecoms ministry has refused to block access to YouTube and has filed an appeal to reverse a court order asking it to do so.

London, Feb 16 (ANI): The rise of Salafist-associated political violence has become a major threat to the revolution in the Islamic world, a report has said.

Cairo, Feb. 10 (ANI): A court in Cairo has ordered the government to block access to the YouTube website for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world.

London, Feb. 4 (ANI): The CIA has allegedly that it has always known that Iran and not Libya was behind the deadly 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which came down over Lockerbie, Scotland causing the deaths of 270 people.

London, Jan. 30 (ANI): Muslim patrols stalking streets in Britain could become 'a lot more dangerous' and perhaps even lead to maiming or killing, the head of an anti-extremism organisation has warned.

Washington, Jan. 30 (ANI): Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has discussed about her biggest regret at the dignitary post under President Barack Obama since 2009.