Libyan PM freed

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been released hours after being seized in Tripoli by militiamen loosely allied to the government.The Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room had detained Mr Zeidan, claiming it was acting on orders from the prosecutor general.

The justice ministry denied this.The militia was one of several groups angered by a US commando raid on Libyan soil on Saturday in which senior al-Qaeda suspect Anas al-Liby was seized.

Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdelaziz later told AFP news agency that Mr Zeidan had been freed, but added: "We have no details so far on the circumstances of his release."