The Latest Breaking News from Muammar Gaddafi

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,…

The support for military takeovers is growing across Africa, and civilian governments are to blame, say analysts.

In the early hours of September 11, residents of Derna in north-east Libya woke to the sound of loud explosions. After more than a decade of conflict – initially between the Gaddafi regime and local factions, then among militias fighting for rule – they were used to the noise.

Khalifa Haftar, the strongman of eastern Libya, has placed his six sons in positions of political and military power. The deadly floods in Derna have seen his youngest, Saddam, rise to head of disaster relief management and the top of his succession charts. For Libyans, it spells more bad news.

Letters: Prof Janet Hooke describes the dangers of building a city on an alluvial fan and the vulnerability of such locations to extreme weather events. Plus letters from Susan Roaf and David O’Brien