Muammar Gaddafi

ZURICH (Reuters) - Engineering giant ABB said on Friday its lawyers would appeal on behalf of Swiss employee Max Goeldi, who has been held in Libya for over a year and was handed a jail term for immigration offences this week. Goeldi and a second Swiss businessman, construction company employee Rachid Hamdani, were sentenced to 16 months in prison in Libya on November 30. They face a second trial this month on new charges, a judicial source in Libya told Reuters on Wednesday. "ABB has instructed its lawyers in Libya to launch an appeal on behalf of Max Goeldi against the verdict announced against ... Read Full Story

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has accepted an Arab League request to calm tension between Egypt and Algeria sparked by their soccer World Cup play-off matches, Libyan state media reported Tuesday. Egypt and Algeria have each accused the other of failing to protect their citizens and property from attacks by rival football fans. Cairo withdrew its ambassador to Algiers last week and Algeria has demanded an explanation from Cairo. Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa called Gaddafi on Monday and asked him to intervene in his role as chairman of the African Union and drawing on "the high, distinguished position that the ... Read Full Story

ROME (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported on Monday. "Seeking 500 attractive girls between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 meters (5 foot, 7 inches) tall, well-dressed but not in mini-skirts or low cut dresses," read the ad by the Hostessweb agency and quoted in Italy's Corriere dell Sera newspaper in its story. Some 200 women showed up at a Rome villa, having been told they would receive 60 euros ($90) ... Read Full Story

ROME (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported Monday. "Seeking 500 attractive girls between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 meters (5 foot, 7 inches) tall, well-dressed but not in mini-skirts or low cut dresses," read the ad by the Hostessweb agency and quoted in Italy's Corriere dell Sera newspaper in its story. Some 200 women showed up at a Rome villa, having been told they would receive 60 euros ($90) and ... Read Full Story

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called on Friday for the removal of 'unjust' rich-country farm subsidies and more emphasis on helping the poor in world trade talks. Gaddafi, who chairs the African Union and has ruled Libya for 40 years, also urged the creation of a world economic council, saying the Group of 20 did not go far enough. "G20 is not enough to deal with the problems that have not only economic but social dimensions," he said in a statement distributed to journalists at a European Union development conference in Stockholm. Gaddafi did not attend in person. Gaddafi's statement said the ... Read Full Story