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  World leaders give their annual speeches at the UN

  World | September 28, 2014 8:35 IST

  United Nation: World leaders gathered on Saturday for the fourth day of the annual ministerial meeting of the U.N. General Assembly to address the state of their countries and the world. Here are highlights from

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  Narendra Modi has united Hindus against terrorists: Shiv Sena

  National | September 07, 2014 12:45 IST

  Mumbai: Reacting strongly to Al Qaeda chief Al-Zawahiri's statement that the terror outfit would intensify attacks against India, the Shiv Sena on Saturday said it was nursing a pipe dream."Al-Zawahiri has threatened that the Al

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  Boat carrying 100 migrants capsizes off Libya

  World | August 31, 2014 20:01 IST

  Tripoli (Libya): A boat carrying more than 100 migrants capsized off the coast near the Libyan capital, a coast guard official said Sunday.Abdel-Latif Mohammed said the coast guard found the damaged rubber boat off the

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  UN Security Council urges for immediate ceasefire in Libya

  World | August 28, 2014 7:25 IST

  United Nations: The UN Security Council on Wednesday adopted a resolution on Libya, calling for an immediate ceasefire while expanding sanctions on those who involved in the violence there.The 15-member council "called on all parties

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  Libya's Tripoli airport captured by Islamist militants

  World | August 24, 2014 7:23 IST

  Tripoli: Libya's Islamist militants' coalition Libya Dawn announced on Saturday that they have taken the Tripoli international airport, a crucial stronghold for the Zintan pro-secular militias, a TV report said.An Al Nabaa TV report showed

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  44 Indian nurses from war-torn Libya arrive in Kerala

  India | August 05, 2014 10:42 IST

  Kochi: The first batch of 43 Keralite nurses, stranded in strife torn Libya, arrived in Kochi today.The nurses, working in various hospitals in Libya, had reached Tunisia, from where they reached Dubai to take the

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  Swaraj discusses situation in Libya, return of Indians

  India | July 30, 2014 19:40 IST

  New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today chaired a high-level meeting on the situation in Libya during it was decided to send a Joint Secretary-level officer to facilitate the return of Indians from the

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  Indian nurses now caught in conflict in Libya, Chandy seeks Swaraj's help

  World | July 30, 2014 8:56 IST

  New Delhi: In a near replay of the incidents in Iraq, large numbers of Indian nurses are caught in spiralling violence in Libya, where rival militant groups seek to control the capital's international airport, and

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  40 inmates escape from prison in Libya

  World | December 01, 2013 11:36 IST

  Tripoli: About 40 inmates have fled their prison with the aid of some gunmen in the southern Libyan city of Sabha, media reported Saturday.The inmates escaped at dawn Friday after the prison came under attack

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  Eight killed in firing on anti-militia protesters in Libya

  World | November 16, 2013 7:56 IST

  Tripoli : A group of militiamen Friday opened fire on hundreds of demonstrators here, who demanded the former to leave their headquarters in southern Tripoli, killing at least eight people and wounding 40 others, a

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  Know how Libyan tyrant Gaddafi had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction

  World | November 12, 2013 6:42 IST

  New Delhi: Following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq  by US forces in 2003, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi announced that his nation had an active weapons of mass destruction program, but was willing to

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  Gaddafi's harem: Dictator forced thousands of girls to work as sex slaves

  World | October 26, 2013 14:01 IST

  New Delhi: A French journalist Annick Cojean has in her book, Gaddafi's Harem, revealed for the first time how women were abducted, imprisoned, raped and abused by the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi during his brutal

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  Kerry: Capture of terror suspect in Libya legal

  World | October 07, 2013 9:47 IST

  Bali, Indonesia : U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday defended the capture of a terrorism suspect by American forces in Libya, saying complaints about the operation from Libya and others are unfounded.Kerry said

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  Libya bristles at US raid that captured militant

  World | October 07, 2013 7:20 IST

  A suspected Libyan al-Qaida figure nabbed by U.S. special forces in a dramatic operation in Tripoli was living freely in his homeland for the past two years, after a trajectory that took him to Sudan,

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  US commandos raid Libya, Somalia; capture Al Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Liby, Somalian raid unsuccessful

  World | October 06, 2013 20:42 IST

  Cairo/Tripoli/Mogadishu: American commandos assisted by FBI and CIA agents raided Tripoli and a Somalian coastal town, and captured an Al Qaeda leader  Abu Anas al-Liby. The US Navy SEAL commandos pre-dawn attack on Somalia however

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  Attack on Russian Embassy in Libya, Diplomats evacuated

  World | October 03, 2013 19:25 IST

  Moscow: Russia says it has evacuated all of its diplomats and their families from Libya a day after a mob attack on the Russian Embassy there.Russia said none of the embassy staff was hurt in

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  Indo-Arab trade meet in Bangalore on Friday

  India | August 22, 2013 8:08 IST

  Bangalore: The Indo-Arab Chamber of Commerce (IACC) is hosting a trade meet Friday here to explore investment and business opportunities in India and the Gulf region by its members, entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises."About

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  Watch how Gaddafi lived like a monarch (in pics)

  World | August 22, 2013 6:20 IST

  New Delhi: As the Battle for Tripoli reached a climax in mid-August 2011, former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi lost his life and all his properties were  forfeited by rebels. After the end of Gaddafi's

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  Know more about Gaddafi's wives and his children (see pics)

  World | August 19, 2013 5:59 IST

  New Delhi: Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi ruled the oil-rich nation in North Africa  from 1969 till 2011, for a long stretch of 41 years. He was the  “Brother Leader” of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from

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  Watch rare pics of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi

  World | August 14, 2013 6:11 IST

  New Delhi: This Libyan tyrant ruled Libya for 42 years. Muammar Gaddafi was born in a tent near Qasr Abu Hadi, a rural area outside the town of Sirte in the deserts of western Libya.  He