Britain and Libya have ratified a prisoner transfer deal that could potentially allow the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombings to serve out the remainder of his sentence in the North African country.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Tuesday with Mutassim Gadhafi, son of and national security adviser to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, and said she asked him about a long-held, gravely ill Libyan dissident.

The State Department says it is looking for ways to expand cooperation with Libya.

An international migration official says more than 200 people are believed dead as more bodies washed ashore in Libya after their overcrowded boat with illegal migrants capsized in stormy Mediterranean waters.

A human rights group says Libya has released two political prisoners in another signal that the North African country is willing to change its policies.

A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit against Libya brought by the estate of American librarian Peter Kilburn, who was kidnapped, held hostage and killed in retaliation for a U.S. raid on the country in 1986.

He has stoked unrest between African nations but now heads the African Union and is pledging to tackle the Darfur crisis. Recently he urged Arab leaders allow their citizens to travel to the Gaza Strip to fight Israel, but later he said the world’s Jews d

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s comment that the country may nationalize its oil sector has “raised some eyebrows” among international oil firms, but there has been little indication that such action is imminent, a U.S. diplomat in the North African natio

Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist who helped Pakistan develop nuclear weapons and allegedly leaked atomic secrets to North Korea, Iran and Libya, was freed from years of de facto house arrest Friday by a high court ruling.

A Pakistan court declared disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan a “free citizen” Friday after years of de facto house arrest because of his alleged role in leaking atomic weapons technology to countries including Iran, North Korea and Libya.