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US delays lifting Libya sanctions

The White House has delayed plans to lift US travel restrictions to Libya after the Libyan prime minister denied his country's guilt in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

The US had been poised to ease the travel ban as a reward to Libya for scrapping its nuclear arms programs.

But the White House put the announcement on hold after Libyan Prime Minister Shokri Ghanem said that Tripoli had only agreed to pay compensation to bombing victims in order to 'buy peace', sources said.