Libyan leader Kadhafi arrives in Moscow for arms talks (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Libyan leader and former pariah Moamer Kadhafi began his first visit to Russia since 1985 Friday, a trip that could revive military cooperation between Tripoli and Cold War ally Moscow.
Tunisia: 2008 Carthage Film Festival – Presentation of New Tunisian Movie to the Press (AllAfrica.com)
A 33 mm movie by the Tunisian director Fadhel Jaziri, whose preview will take place at the close of the Carthage Film Festival on November 1, was presented to the press on Friday in Tunis, in the presence of the director and the cast.
Libya Pays to End Terrorism Cases (New York Times)
Libya deposited $1.5 billion with the State Department to be shared among more than 400 victims, mostly American, for terrorist attacks in the mid-1980s.
Libya pays $1.5 billion to settle terrorism claims (CNN)
Libya has paid $1.5 billion to the families of terrorism victims, overcoming the final obstacle to full relations with the United States, the State Department said Friday.
Ultraconservative Islam on rise in Mideast (The Charlotte Observer)
(By PAUL SCHEMM, Associated Press Writer) The Muslim call to prayer fills the halls of a Cairo computer shopping center, followed immediately by the click of locking doors as the young, bearded tech salesmen close shop and line up in rows to pray. Business grinding to a halt for daily prayers is not unusual in conservative Saudi Arabia, but until recently it was rare in the Egyptian capital, …
The Almanac — weekly (Moldova.org)
Today is Monday, Nov. 3, the 308th day of 2008 with 58 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Saturn and Mercury. The evening stars are Mars, Venus, Neptune, Jupiter and Uranus.Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio.
Libya paid $1.5 billion to fund for terrorism victims (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Libya has paid $1.5 billion into a fund for victims of terrorism, the U.S. State Department said on Friday, a step that will remove a major obstacle to improving U.S.-Libyan ties.
Austrian hostages freed after 8 months (KGO-TV Bay Area)
Two Austrians kidnapped in February while on holiday in Tunisia have been released, officials said Friday, ending an eight-month ordeal and anguished diplomatic attempts to win their freedom.
US receives 1.5 billion dollars in compensation from Libya (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The United States said Friday that Libya has paid the full 1.5 billion dollars to compensate victims of terrorism, clearing the last hurdle to a full normalization of ties with Washington.
2 Austrian hostages freed after 8 months in Africa (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By WILLIAM J. KOLE Two Austrians kidnapped in Tunisia by an al-Qaida affiliate have been released, ending an eight-month ordeal and anguished diplomatic attempts to win their freedom. Wolfgang Ebner, 51, and Andrea Kloiber, 43, were freed Thursday after 252 days in captivity and were under the protection of Mali’s military, Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik said Friday. Al-Qaida in Islamic North …
