President Mohamed Morsi tried to name the prosecutor, a holdover from the Mubarak era, ambassador to the Vatican.

The Obama administration recalled Laurence Pope, who retired from the Foreign Service 12 years ago, to serve as the senior American envoy in Libya.

The Obama administration recalled Laurence Pope, who retired from the Foreign Service 12 years ago, to serve as the senior American envoy in Libya.

Representative Paul D. Ryan asserted that the Obama administration’s foreign policy was “unraveling,” while Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. repeatedly demanded that Mr. Ryan explain what a Romney administration would do differently.

One brother, after 16 years in Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s prisons, is a lawmaker. The other became Al Qaeda’s No. 2 and was killed in an American drone strike in Pakistan.