United Nations specialists locate a data recorder that may help determine what caused the jet to go down, killing all 118 people aboard.

Weeks of fighting between militias for control of Tripoli’s airport has edged toward the embassy in recent weeks, leading the State Department to close it and issue a travel warning.

West Africa’s current Ebola outbreak has spread to a fourth country, as Nigeria on Friday confirmed a death caused by the disease.

Abdel-Moaz Banoun, an outspoken critic of the nation’s clashing militias, was taken from his car by two armed men in Tripoli.