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Exclusive: The government awarded a £1.2m contract to AtkinsRéalis, a firm that pleaded guilty to bribing the son of Muammar Gaddafi with tens of millions of dollars to win contracts in Libya in the decade before the dictator’s downfall between 2001 and 2011

BBC documentary uncovers story behind film that included scenes of bomb missions before it vanished for almost 50 years

Italy’s highest court has ruled that the country’s vessels cannot return rescued refugees to the North African country.

The Pulitzer prize winner on the life-changing impact of the 1984 Libyan embassy shootings, attaching his writing to the wall when he’s stuck and his unreliability as a football fan

Ten years after Mandela passed away, his keffiyeh moment remains a symbol of South African warmth for Palestine.

Letters: The former prime minister lacks the skills needed by a foreign secretary, says Otto Inglis, while John Boaler bemoans the Tories’ chop-and-change leadership, and other readers weigh in on the reshuffle

Former Afghan spymaster, convicted millionaire and former Libyan colonel among those who became Dominican citizens

Moscow seized the disaster diplomacy initiative after the deadly Derna floods, with Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov arriving in eastern Libya with a promise of aid. Russia is helping Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar while seeking geostrategic payback. But the Derna tragedy has also drawn the US back into Libya,…