International flights to and from Libya resumed in April 1999, when UN sanctions were lifted after the Libyan government agreed to hand over suspects in the 1988 bombing of a TWA airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, to face trial in the Netherlands. The resumption of EgyptAir services has been delayed partly due to currency conversion problems in Libya. The two sides had earlier missed a deadline for reaching an agreement on the air corridor that should be used. On 3 May, Israeli security services turned back an Egyptian flight after preventing it from landing in Gaza airport. The airport is controlled by Israel in accordance with the terms of agreements signed between the Palestinians and Israel.
Women can hit back, violently.
Sceptics are referred to the murder this week of a man by his wife in the working class district of Warraq Al-Hadar. At some point, the assistance of a male cousin, who owns a motorcycle, was enlisted to help transport the mess to a nearby irrigation canal and bury it in the mud. Police were alerted by witnesses who saw the young wife leave her house at midnight carrying two plastic bags. Afaf is said to have confessed to investigators that her husband had returned home drunk, had beaten her, pulled her hair and then attempted to strangle her. She reacted by grabbing a knife.