U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Libyan Envoys
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Libyan diplomats can travel freely in the United States, the State Department said Friday, the latest sign of thawing relations between the longtime antagonists.
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The United States eased a  controversial ban on publications from Iran, Sudan and Cuba on  Wednesday in a bid to allow dissidents to be heard while  maintaining an embargo on official documents.
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Libya took another big stride out of  diplomatic isolation on Wednesday when the European Union  agreed to lift all sanctions on the North African country.
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Senior envoys to the 25-nation bloc agreed the move at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, diplomatic sources said. The. decision, the latest step in Libya&#39;s improving relations with the West, will
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The United States plans to lift a ban on direct aid to the emergency government that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is forming following Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip, Washington's envoy said on Saturday.
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The United States said Monday it was lifting a 15-month embargo on direct aid to the Palestinian territories, as the EU said it was normalizing ties with the new Palestinian government.
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Washington, Sept. 21 (NNN): As a reward for the countryâs decision to give up weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), US President George Walker Bush has lifted his country&#39;s trade embargo on Libya.
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The ambassadors of the European Union (EU) member states agreed here Wednesday to lift the bloc&#39;s 18-year-long arms embargo on Libya.
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Israeli army officials said that they had stopped most search-and-arrest operations against Palestinian militants and were easing security restrictions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to allow Palestinians greater freedom to vote Sunday for a new president.
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Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday it has recalled its ambassador to Libya and would expel the Libyan envoy to protest against Tripoli&#39;s alleged involvement in a plot to assassinate
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WASHINGTON -- The United States yesterday lifted its embargo on direct aid to, and diplomatic contact with, the Palestinian government, joining the European Union and other countries in a swift demonstration of support for embattled President Mahmoud Abbas in his struggle against the anti-Israeli militant group Hamas.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 23 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Libya's foreign minister Saturday for the first time since the two sides restored full diplomatic ties, and she urged Tripoli to resolve issues linked to the Lockerbie bombing.
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Libya took another big step towards respectability yesterday when the European Union&#39;s most senior diplomats agreed that an arms embargo against Tripoli should be lifted.
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US President George W. Bush removed most economic sanctions on Libya, clearing the way for huge compensation payments to the families of victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
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Libya awarded its first contracts to U.S. companies in 18 years Saturday, handing oil and gas exploration licenses to three American firms to draw a line under decades of international isolation.
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European Union foreign ministers agreed to lift an arms embargo on Libya on Monday, recognizing Tripoli's renunciation of weapons of mass destruction and its wish to move closer to the bloc.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Libyan Foreign Minister Abdelraham Shalgham met here in the highest-level contact between the two countries in decades amid a sharp improvement in ties between Washington and Tripoli.