Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Libya since Kadhafi: a decade of civil war and chaos

PARIS: With international talks on Libya to be held in Paris on Friday, here is a timeline of the oil-rich country gripped by chaos since dictator Moamer Kadhafi’s ouster a decade ago. 2011: Kadhafi killed Encouraged by Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, protests erupt in Libya in February 2011. The United States, France … Read more

Azerbaijan activists sound alarm over wave of killings of women

BAKU: Dilara Bagiyeva’s face grew pale as she recounted how, after suffering abuse from her husband for a decade, he turned on their eight-year-old daughter in a drunken fit last year. That evening in November, he returned home intoxicated to their 13th-floor apartment in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, beating Bagiyeva first in the bedroom, then the hallway and … Read more