Libya faced years of United Nations sanctions until it finally surrendered the two suspects in the Lockerbie bombing.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

Now you can actually go, now that I realize that Libya is now open; it's no longer a closed territory.

现在你确实可以去那个地方,据我所知,现在利比亚已经对外开放,不再是一个封闭国家

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Going west, would you believe, when you get into what is now Libya, there was a very important Greek colony of Cyrene and that whole region was called Cyrenaica and it was a Greek.

往西走,你能相信吗,当你进入了现在的利比亚,那里有一个重要的希腊殖民地昔兰尼,整个地区叫昔兰尼加,隶属于希腊

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

At a news briefing, State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said Libya's treatment of Megrahi will affect the U.S.-Libyan relationship.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

As it is,Swiss president Merz is being criticized for leaving Libya without the two detained Swiss citizens in tow.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

The substance of this summit on Libya's Mediterranean seacoast has been largely overshadowed by the personalities attending, and those who are not.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

Libya says they would be released soon. This has not been a good week for Switzerland.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Megrahi's release in August and the festive welcome he received upon returning to his native Libya drew international outrage and strong protest from U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Libya also took responsibility for acts of terrorism, including the 1988 bombing of a PanAm jet over Lockerbie, and paid compensation to victims' relatives.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

The five new members are replacing out-going council members Burkina Faso, Costa Rica,Croatia, Libya and Vietnam.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

One dissenting voice is Libya's Geneva lawyer, Charles Poncet, who says he is very happy that Bern and Tripoli have managed to overcome their differences.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

"I think the tragedy is he had to compromise upon the attempts to clear his name in order to smooth the path home to Libya,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

In London,criticism was limited to the reception bestowed upon Megrahi at home in Libya.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

The two-day Forum for the Future brings together public and private sector leaders from the West Bank and Gaza as well as Afghanistan, Algeria,Bahrain,Egypt,Iraq,Jordan, Kuwait,Lebanon,and Libya.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Other nations have been paying money to Libya, including the United States, compensation for its attacks on the nation,and Italy, to atone for its brutal colonial rule.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Libya has maintained that it was not responsible for the downing of Pan Am flight 103 and Megrahi, who was serving a life sentence, has maintained his innocence.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

All of the other council members were represented by their head of state or government, except for non-permanent member Libya, which sent its U.N.ambassador instead of President Moammar Gadhafi.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

It seems this benchdmark in Libya's modern history is coinciding with hope at home that the country can start to reap the benefits of a rehabilitated and redirected Colonel Gadhafi.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Amunugama,who is also the deputy finance minister, says the United States and the West have been supplanted as the primary aid donors by India, China,Japan,Iran and Arab countries, including Libya.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha thanked Ethiopia and Libya for welcoming President al-Bashir and said Sudan was capable of handling the humanitarian situation in Darfur on its own.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"Of course,the visit to Libya, I mean everything with Libya is always rather unique and peculiar, but that might be Libya-specific, and I am sure that Gadhafi would have welcomed Bashir.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

He returned to Libya Thursday to a hero's welcome.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

But officials here are making no secret of their unease about his reported plan to pitch his trademark Bedouin tent at the New Jersey residence of Libya's U.N.mission chief during his stay.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

A joint declaration issued at the end of an African Union summit in Libya said member states would not cooperate in the arrest and surrender of Sudan's president on war crimes charges.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

Nevertheless,Libya was quick to retaliate against this insult.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

The head of the Beirut-based Carnegie Center for Peace in the Middle East,Paul Salem, says Arab states like Libya and Egypt are trying to demonstrate they are independent of the West by striking a middle-ground with respect to President Bashir.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The plan has stirred opposition in Englewood, which has a large Jewish population and which is near the homes of some family members of Americans killed in the 1988 airliner bombing over Lockerbie,Scotland, for which Libya accepted responsibility and paid compensation.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

Two hundred seventy people were killed in the attack. Opposition Scottish Labor leader Iain Gray was blunt in his criticism of Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, who made the call to allow Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to leave prison and return home to Libya on compassionate grounds because he is terminally ill.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir embraced Libya's Colonel Muammar al-Gadhafi and thanked him for his warm welcome, as both leaders met at the Colonel's private tent in his home town of Sirte, President al-Bashir's trip to Ethiopia and Libya was his third visit abroad since a warrant was issued for his arrest on March 4 by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes in Darfur.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26