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Envoys Dangle Financial Offer to Key Gadhafi Aides
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- It's an offer that European diplomats hope Moammar Gadhafi's family and top aides can't refuse: If they publicly withdraw support for the Libyan dictator's regime, the restrictions on their assets, cash and travel plans can be made to vanish. Britain's Foreign Office said Tuesday that Kim Darroch, the U.K.'s ambassador to the European Union, and other officials were discussing the proposals in Brussels. U.N. Security Council members will also hold talks on the subject if any of those named under U.N. sanctions flee from Libya and renounce Gadhafi. Gadhafi's seven sons, wife, ...
World Powers Tangle Over Arming Libya's Rebels
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- World powers clashed Wednesday over whether it is legal to supply weapons to Libya's badly equipped rebels as Moammar Gadhafi's troops beat back their advance on the ground. Britain and the U.S. believe that existing U.N. Security Council resolutions on Libya could allow for foreign governments to arm the rebels. But NATO, which is in the process of taking over command of air and other military operations in Libya, rejected that theory, saying an arms embargo was in place. China, Russia and Germany were also against supplying weapons to the rebels, with Moscow warning of possible ...
Gadhafi Steps Up Airstrikes; West Weighs Rebels' Plea for No-Fly Zone
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsWestern allies are weighing military options against Libya, including a no-fly zone over the country, after forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi unleashed a weekend of furious air assaults against rebels fighting his regime. At the White House today, President Barack Obama warned that Gadhafi's supporters "will be held accountable for whatever violence continues to take place," The Associated Press reported. "We've got NATO consulting in Brussels around a wide range of potential options, including potential military options, in response to the violence that continues to take place in Libya," ...
Stoning Averted for Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, Iran's Alleged Adultress
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyThe Iranian government backed down under international pressure from carrying out a death sentence by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, a victory for human-rights activists, but far from the final act in the ongoing drama between the forces of modernism and a perverted and outdated interpretation of Islamic fundamentalism. The woman, 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, remains in jail with her punishment uncertain. She has already been in prison for five years and received 99 lashes for an "illicit relationship" that she confessed to at the time, but later recanted, saying she was ...
Praise for Shiite Cleric Earns Criticism for Ambassador
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (July 9) -- In death just as in life, Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah remains a controversial figure. Earlier this week, CNN editor Octavia Nasr was fired after tweeting that she was "sad" to hear that the "respected" radical Lebanese Shiite cleric had died on Sunday. Now, a British diplomat has been reprimanded by her government after blogging that Fadlallah -- branded a terrorist by Washington for his connections with militant group Hezbollah -- was a "decent" man. A July 5 blog post by Britain's ambassador to Lebanon, Frances Guy, sparked the diplomatic debacle. Guy wrote on the ...
Alleged Adulteress Escapes Stoning Death in Iran
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 9) -- An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery will escape that punishment, Iranian state media reported today, after an international campaign drew Hollywood stars and global leaders decrying what one U.S. senator called a "barbaric" punishment. But it's unclear whether 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani will avoid the death penalty altogether, or be killed by another method Iranian executioners use, like hanging or beheading. She's already endured a flogging for having an "illicit relationship" outside marriage, even though Ashtiani was a widow at the time of ...
U.K.-Israeli Tensions Flare Over Assassination of Hamas Official
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyBritish and Israeli relations have been strained this week over the duplication of six British passports for use in the assassination of a senior Hamas official in Dubai. The controversy has once again embroiled the British government in charges that it has been slow to respond to a major international event involving its citizens. ...
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