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Moamer Kadhafi's Tripoli compound was rocked by blasts for a second night, his southern strongholds targeted and a navy base bombed as international criticism mounted over the air assault on Libya.
Rebels, meanwhile, said they were under intense attack by Kadhafi's forces in the city of Misrata near Tripoli and an AFP reporter saw them beaten
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1709 GMT: French Prime Minister Francois Fillon says that sending coalition ground troops into Libya is "explicitly excluded" as an option.
France cannot be a "substitute" for the Libyan people, even if Paris has called for Kadhafi's ouster, he tells the French national assembly.
-- In Washington, A US lawmaker calls military strikes
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Bamako - Mali's army early on Tuesday fought off an attack by about 100 armed men from an unidentified group in the northern Gao region, military sources said.
"Our military base was attacked on Tuesday at around 04:00 am (04:00 GMT) by an armed band of around 100 people. There are no casualty details for the
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Four more bodies were found Tuesday after a plane ploughed into a residential area of a Republic of Congo city, a mayor said, raising the toll to 23 including a Russian crew of four.
The cargo plane slammed into a working-class residential area of Pointe-Noire, the Congo's economic capital and a major Atlantic port, as it
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The UN peacekeeping mission in the Ivory Coast came under fire from rival camps Tuesday as civilians bear the brunt of a bloody post-election dispute between presidential opponents.
On one side internationally recognised president Alassane Ouattara is pushing the mission known as UNOCI to take stronger action to protect civilians, as the death toll in post-election
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Zimbabwe and China signed millions of euros worth of deals Monday, some in the agriculture sector, as the country's agriculture minister ordered grain to be sent to provinces that face severe food shortages.
Agriculture Minister Joseph Made told the state daily The Herald that he ordered the country's grain marketing board to send grain to six
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Brussels - Nato allies sought on Tuesday to mend an acrimonious debate over what role the alliance should play in Libya amid French reluctance to hand it the lead and Turkish concerns about the air strikes.
The ambassadors of the 28-nation military organisation entered a new round of talks to discuss whether Nato should take the
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Retired U.S. Gen. Colin Powell says Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi must step down after launching military attacks against his opponents.
Powell was senior military assistant to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger during U.S. airstrikes on Libya in 1986.
Powell later served in many roles that involved assessing
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Jos/Awka/Benin City/Kebbi — Less than two weeks to next month's general election in the country, the nation's political climate Monday witnessed a harvest of deaths as campaign rallies in Jos, Plateau State; Onitsha and Awka in Anambra State; Kebbi and Benue States resulted in a cumulative loss of 10 lives. A number of persons also sustained injuries while property worth
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A man set himself alight Tuesday in Tunisia's Sidi Bouzid, where a self-immolation last year unleashed protests that toppled the president, as the UN chief was due to visit, a medical source said. The 33-year-old suffered third degree burns and was admitted to hospital in a severe condition, the official said. The reasons for his protest were not yet clear.
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"Significant" military action in Libya should recede in a matter of days, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday during talks with his Russian counterpart. Gates said that international forces were trying to minimise civilian casualities in Libya, adding that "significant military fighting that has been going on should recede in the next few days". The Pentagon chief later
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Four nations have joined France, Britain and the United States in an international campaign to impose a no-fly zone on Libya. Following United Nations Security Council resolution 1973, Denmark, Canada, Norway and Belgium have all sent fighter jets to the Mediterranean to combat forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. The country's centre-right, Nato-enthusiastic government wants to take a leading
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London – The US military said on Tuesday that both crew members who ejected after a US Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle jet crashed in Libya were safe and sustained minor injuries. The jet crashed in Libya after an equipment malfunction but its two crew members were safe, the U.S. military said. Vince Crawley, a spokesperson for the Africa Command,
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CAIRO – Egyptian investors are bracing for the expected reopening of the country's stock market that was shuttered for almost two months because of the protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak's regime. The Egyptian Exchange was expected to open on Wednesday, following a decision on Tuesday by the prime minister. Analysts believe that most, if not all, companies will see their
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0918 GMT: With coalition officials expressing satisfaction with progress so far in reducing Kadhafi's defence capabilities, a senior US general says the strikes begun on Saturday night could diminish but the UN-mandated no-fly zone would be spread to the whole country, my colleagues report. "The extension of the no-fly zone ... essentially across the coastal part of the country, almost
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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Oraginsation (WHO) have raised concern over the long term sustainability of access to HIV/Aids treatment. In a joint policy brief, UNAIDS, WHO and the UN Development Programme urged countries to use the intellectual property and trade flexibilities set out by the World Trade Organisation to reduce the price
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Washington — The fate of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi remains up in the air after the United States and its allied partners began missile strikes over the weekend to impose a no-fly zone (NFZ) in the North African country. "[T]he six-million-dollar question is where is this heading and I don't think we have a clear sense of it," Charles Kupchan,
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Tobruk - Three western journalists who went missing in eastern Libya last week, including two from Agence France-Presse, were arrested by forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi, their driver said. AFP journalists Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt, and Getty photographer Joe Raedle, had not been heard from since Friday evening. Driver Mohammed Hamed told AFP that on Saturday morning
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New York - The UN Security Council on Monday expressed "indignation" at an Ivory Coast attack that killed 30 civilians, and pledged the crime "shall not remain unpunished". The civilians were killed when missiles were launched into a suburb of the capital Abidjan in one of the bloodiest events since a disputed presidential election in November plunged the world's
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New York - Two Libyan diplomats, including the UN envoy, no longer represent the country after denouncing embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi , a UN spokesperson said on Monday. Libyan ambassador Mohammed Shalgham and deputy ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi have been relieved of their duties following a request from Libyan authorities, spokesperson Martin Nesirky said. "On the 27th of February, the
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The founder of a Libyan online news channel has become the second journalist killed in the country's conflict after he was shot dead in the city of Benghazi, an international press group said Monday. The Vienna-based International Press Institute said in a statement that Mohammed al-Nabbous, 28, was shot by snipers on Saturday while the eastern city was under attack
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BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) – Moamer Kadhafi's Tripoli compound was rocked by blasts on Monday and his southern strongholds and a navy base were bombed as international criticism mounted over the air assault on Libya. Rebels, meanwhile, said they were under intense attack by Kadhafi's forces in the city of Misrata near Tripoli and an AFP reporter saw them beaten back
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The US military knows little about the whereabouts of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi after waves of air and missile strikes in the country, a top US general said on Monday. One of the strikes demolished a building in Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli, raising questions about whether he had been targeted in the raids. "I don't know much about the location
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The US military knows little about the whereabouts of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi after waves of air and missile strikes in the country, a top US general said on Monday. One of the strikes demolished a building in Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli, raising questions about whether he had been targeted in the raids. "I don't know much about the location
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Nigeria which has led a campaign to force out Ivory Coast's strongman on Monday lashed out at "contradictions" by world powers focusing attention on Libya while the West African nation is burning. Foreign Minister Odein Ajumogobia charged at the international community for watching while hundreds of thousands of people were murdered in Ivory Coast since the disputed November 28 election.
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