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US President Barack Obama has called the leaders of the UK, France and Italy as international efforts to respond to the crisis in Libya gather pace. Mr Obama outlined a range of possible measures, including plans for humanitarian assistance. Earlier, the White House said all options were on the table, including sanctions. It said the military would present its
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London - Foreigners on Friday faced hellish scenes in Tripoli as countries worldwide sent planes and warships in a desperate bid to rescue their nationals from the chaos engulfing Libya. Anarchy descended on Tripoli airport as thousands of foreigners packed into the terminal to try to escape the widening crisis, with those who managed to leave describing how food and
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Gatwick Airport - Britain's first rescue flights left Tripoli on Thursday as Prime Minister David Cameron apologised for the delay in getting stranded nationals home. The first charter plane made it to London Gatwick Airport with 78 adults and one child on board, while a second touched down in Malta en route to Gatwick carrying 130 adults and two children.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Key Libyan oil and oil product terminals to the east of the capital are in the hands of rebels who have seized control from leader Muammar Gaddafi, said residents of Benghazi who are in touch with people in region. The residents told Reuters Thursday the oil and product terminals at Ras Lanuf and Marsa El Brega
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Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has told state TV that Osama Bin Laden and his followers are to blame for the protests wracking his country. In a phone call from the town of al-Zawiya played live on TV, Col Gaddafi said young people were being duped with drugs and alcohol to take part in "destruction and sabotage". Col Gaddafi is
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The Libyan capital was a ghost town Thursday morning, witnesses said, as anti-government protesters declared victory elsewhere after reportedly seizing control of the country's third-largest city. Misrata -- also spelled as Misurata -- is now in the hands of the opposition, who have driven out the mercenaries, according to witnesses and multiple media reports. Witnesses and multiple reports also said
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The embattled Libyan government now considers foreign journalists who entered the country without authorisation "al-Qaeda collaborators," the US state department said on Thursday. "In meetings with senior Libyan government officials, US diplomats were told that some members of CNN, BBC Arabic and Al Arabiya would be allowed into the country to report on the current situation," it said in a
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LONDON GATWICK AIRPORT (AFP) – A first rescue flight landed back in Britain Thursday carrying stranded nationals from Libya, as a second charter plane left Tripoli and a military aircraft was on the tarmac. The first plane returning from the Libyan capital landed at London Gatwick at 0710 GMT with 78 people on board, the airport said. "Libya is descending
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Benghazi - Muammar Gaddafi’s son denies the government launched airstrikes against Libyan cities and claims reports of the number of protesters killed have been exaggerated. Thursday's comments by Seif al-Islam Gaddafi come as the Libyan government fights to maintain control after several other major Libyan cities and towns in the east and close to the capital have fallen to the
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s men have abducted two daughters of his exiled former protocol chief and forced them to denounce their father on state television, the exiled aide's lawyer said on Thursday. Nuri el-Mismari, who is exiled in France where he was arrested last year at the request of Tripoli on suspicion of embezzlement, has made various declarations to the
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TRIPOLI (AFP) – Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi is soon to make a public address in Zawiyah city west of Tripoli, state television said Thursday, two days after he broke cover to urge his supporters to crush an insurrection. The television gave no further details. On Tuesday, in a defiant, sometimes rambling speech on television, Kadhafi vowed to remain in Libya
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More than 5,000 people have fled the chaos in Libya across the border into Tunisia, the regional head of the Red Crescent told AFP Thursday. Between midnight and 4:00 pm Wednesday "around 5,000 Tunisians, 171 Libyans, 22 Algerians, and 28 Moroccans" crossed the border at the main Ras Jedir checkpoint, Monj Slim told AFP close to the border. He said
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LONDON – Britain's government is convening its crisis committee to decide whether the military will need to evacuate almost 200 U.K. oil workers and their colleagues from other countries stranded in Libya. Foreign Secretary William Hague told BBC radio on Thursday the COBRA emergency panel was scheduled to meet and would discuss evacuation options with Defense Secretary Liam Fox. Hague
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AL-BAIDA, Libya (AFP) – Residents of Libya's dissident-held east, frenzied by a deadly crackdown by Moamer Kadhafi's crumbling regime, vowed on Thursday to march on the capital Tripoli as a string of towns famous as World War II battlegrounds fell under their control. With big chunks of the army defecting to the week-old protest movement leaving much of the east
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Governments and private companies around the world scrambled Thursday to evacuate citizens and workers from violence-hit Libya, as Italy braced for a "biblical" exodus of up to 300,000 migrants. Fears of a full-scale civil war in the North African country prompted countries from Canada to China to scramble to charter ferries and planes to secure their citizens' safety despite poor
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Moamer Kadhafi's regime appeared to have lost vast swathes of Libya's east to an insurrection as Western nations braced for a mass exodus from a "bloodbath" in the oil-rich African state. US President Barack Obama demanded a unified global response to the Libyan regime's "outrageous" crackdown, which rights groups say has featured aerial strafing and heavy weaponry against civilians, and
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Benghazi - A Libyan witness says a Libyan army unit has blasted a minaret of a mosque in a city west of Tripoli. The witness tells The Associated Press by telephone that several protesters, who have been camped inside and outside the mosque while demanding the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi, have been killed or seriously wounded in Thursday's attack. The
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Cairo - The Libyan People's Committee for General Security on Thursday called on protesters to surrender their weapons and offered rewards for those who inform on protest leaders, in a statement broadcast live on Libyan TV. Libyan security has cracked down on anti-government protesters and fighting has spread to the capital Tripoli after erupting in Libya's oil-producing east last week
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Benghazi - World leaders condemned Muammar Gaddafi's bloody crackdown on a revolt that has split Libya, but took little action to halt the bloodshed from the latest upheaval reshaping the Arab world. US President Barack Obama made his first public comments, condemning as "outrageous" and "unacceptable" attacks on protesters that have killed hundreds in 10 days and helped drive
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Tobruk - Thousands in the coastal town of Tobruk celebrated their freedom from Muammar Gaddafi by waving flags of the old monarchy, honking horns and firing guns in the air around a city square where he once executed people. Officers in the army units that had defected to the rebellion against Libya's leader for the past four decades pledged on
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Nicosia - Al-Qaeda's branch in North Africa has vowed to do everything in its power to help an uprising against Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, according to a statement posted on Thursday by the SITE monitoring group. "(We) will do whatever we can to help you, with power from Allah, because your fight is the fight of every Muslim who loves
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London - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will play a major role in any regime formed in the country but new blood will need to take over direct control and introduce reform, his son told the Financial Times on Wednesday. "My father would stay as the big father who advises," Saadi Gaddafi told the Financial Times by telephone from Tripoli,
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PARIS – The United States and the European Union vowed Wednesday to consider sanctions against Libya for Moammar Gadhafi's fierce crackdown on protesters, with the EU calling the attacks possible "crimes against humanity." "The continuing brutal and bloody repression against the Libyan civilian population is revolting," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement Wednesday, raising the possibility of cutting
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President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned the violence in Libya as "outrageous ... and unacceptable" and said he was dispatching Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Geneva for international talks aimed at stopping the violence. Obama said he was studying a "full range of options" to pressure Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime to halt attacks against Libyans as violent
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The United States Wednesday pledged to hold Libya accountable for its protest crackdown and eyed possible sanctions, with President Barack Obama poised to stiffen US rhetoric in a televised statement. Amid criticism that his public response to the raging violence in Libya has been too tepid, Obama was due to speak at the White House on Moamer Kadhafi's brutal purge
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