Everyone should listen to Kofi Annan's claims that the massacre in Houla is a "tipping point" in the crisis in Syria, a United Nations human rights spokesman said today.

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Former foreign secretary Jack Straw is being sued by Libyan Abdel Hakim Belhadj, right

Mystery delay on check into torture claims

Libya has failed to grant British police leave to interview alleged victims of rendition

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy calls for West to intervene in Syria

Bernard-Henri Lévy is calling for France and the West to intervene in Syria as his new documentary The Oath of Tobruk debuts at the Cannes Film Festival tonight.

Libyan prime minister visits Yvonne Fletcher murder site

Libyan prime minister Abdurrahim El-Keib today made a historic visit to the spot where policewoman Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead outside the country's London embassy in 1984.

Police to visit Libya over Yvonne Fletcher death

A Metropolitan Police team is to fly to Libya to continue the investigation into the murder of Wpc Yvonne Fletcher, the Prime Minister announced today.

Government should do more to prevent human rights abuses in Libya, says watchdog

The Government should be doing more to prevent human rights abuses by the new Libyan regime, the Foreign Affairs select committee will be told today.

Plea to monitor Libyan abuses

The Government should be doing more to prevent human rights abuses by the new Libyan regime, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee will be told today.

Mourners prepare to take Megrahi’s body for burial in Tripoli yesterday

Megrahi funeral attended by Gaddafi old guard

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, was buried yesterday in a quiet family ceremony, ignored by most Libyans.

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi died two years and nine months after being released from prison in Scotland on compassionate grounds

Robert Fisk: Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is dead. Now we'll never know the truth about Lockerbie

As a former Libyan intelligence officer, Megrahi's hands were dirty

Leading article: No closure for Lockerbie families

The death of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in Tripoli yesterday is a closure of sorts, but only of the diplomatic fracas that accompanied his release from prison in Scotland in 2009. It brings us no closer to solving the mystery of who was responsible for the bomb that brought down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988. Nor does it offer any resolution to the families of the 270 people who died.

Megrahi 'should never have been released', says Cameron

The Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, should never have been released David Cameron said today.

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 59, was sentenced to life in prison for the 1988 bombing of a US airliner which claimed 270 lives.

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi dead

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi has died in Tripoli, his brother said today.

No regrets for man who freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi

The man who released the Lockerbie bomber from jail has always stood by the decision despite continued protest from critics.

Obituary: Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi did not fit the stereotype of an international terrorist.

Nato defends its role over civilian deaths in Libya

A leading human rights group has accused Nato of failing to acknowledge the deaths of at least 72 civilians it says were killed in bombing raids during the alliance's controversial air campaign in Libya last year.

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