Suppose you're NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, one of the first reporters into Libya after its rebellion began.
While Qaddafi was here, the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of our first ambassador to Libya in 36 years.
Although no contracts have yet been signed, British Airways was the first airline back in Libya after the embargo was lifted last year, and British Aerospace is said to have begun training programmes for Libyans.
It was here, in 2004, that the then German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was entertained as he became the first German chancellor to visit Libya.
Only then will the government be able to proceed with drafting a constitution and eventually hold Libya's first democratic elections in its modern history, our correspondent says.
Glassy buildings glint in the hot sun, as cranes and foreign construction-workers line the shores of Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya's first and second cities, where stretches of sand stood empty a few years ago.
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Indeed, it was French combat aircraft on Saturday that fired the first shots of the allied action in Libya.
First, it refers the situation in Libya directly to the International Criminal Court.
When Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi first suggested creating a "United States of Africa" two years ago, leaders of the continent's powerhouses South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt reacted with scepticism.
The ship became the first U.S. vessel to dock in Libya in 20 years.
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Libya was the Arab Spring's first true revolution, the only one in which the revolutionaries now hold the levers of power.
The BBC's Rana Jawad, in Tripoli, says the first test of the new government will be to successfully centralise Libya's political and military powers.
Italy has drawn criticism for handing over to Libya migrants it intercepts at sea, without screening them first.
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Libya's second city, Benghazi, staged the first demonstrations on February 15th.
So are we veering towards the first major political crisis of not-quite-post-Gaddafi Libya, or is this just some rather aggressive manoeuvring in an understandably feverish - but still broadly positive - environment?
At first, Obama stayed out, having apparently determined that American interests in Libya were peripheral.
Though Poland was criticised by America for staying out of the air campaign in Libya, its foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, was the first to visit rebel-held Benghazi.
She is believed to be the first U.S. diplomat killed since the September attack in Benghazi, Libya.
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Libya, Tunisia and Egypt are the other three countries bidding to become the First African host of the World Cup, the winners will be announced by Fifa on 15 May in Zurich.
Egypt is one of five African countries bidding to become the continent's first host of the World Cup, Fifa have already been to South Africa, Morocco, Libya and Tunisia.
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When the President spoke at some length about the situation in Libya on Friday, he singled out a number of population centers, and the first two were Benghazi and Misurata.
First of all, what we are saying is that this -- our current actions in Libya or in this mission do not fall under the War Powers resolution because they do not meet the threshold of hostilities as envisioned by the War Powers resolution.
Earlier this month, Libya's interim National Transitional Council handed power to a newly elected assembly, in the first peaceful transition in the country's modern history.
President Barack Obama said for the first time on Tuesday that he ultimately was responsible for the safety of four Americans who were killed in Libya last month, but denounced as "offensive" Republican charges that the White House initially resisted labeling the incident a terrorist attack.
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