Gunfire rings out in Libyan capitalCNN
By the CNN Wire Staff Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Heavy, sustained gunfire rang out in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Sunday, but confusion reigned as to what prompted the shooting. A government official said the shots were celebratory -- marking the ...
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Libya: 'SAS Unit And Diplomat Held Hostage'
Sky News
Eight SAS soldiers have been taken hostage by rebels in Libya, according to Sky sources. Rebel sources told Sky News that the group were being held in Libya's second city in Benghazi. They were among a group of around 22 soldiers and one diplomat who ...
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Obama reluctant to intervene in Libya
Detroit Free Press
Tents in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, near the Libyan border, shelter workers who fled the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi. More than 1000 people have died in Libya since protests began Feb. 15. / LEFTERIS PITARAKIS/Associated Press BY JONATHAN S. LANDAY ...
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Libya rebels revel in recent victory
Los Angeles Times
A Libyan rebel aims a rocket-propelled grenade in the hamlet of Bin Jawwad, Libya. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times The Libyan jet fighter circled once, twice, and then dipped, low and ominous. ...
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Los Angeles Times
Indians evacuated from Libya express gratitude to Government
Sify
Around 50 evacuees from West Bengal, who landed at the Kolkata airport in a special flight via Dubai after being evacuated from Libya, have conveyed their gratitude to the government for ensuring their safe return. The unrest in Libya took a dramatic ...
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Libyan dinar-peso exchange to start Monday, says BSP
GMANews.TV
Starting Monday, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were repatriated from Libya due to the political turmoil there could exchange their Libyan dinar to Philippine pesos at all banks and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) offices nationwide. ...
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Internet traffic in Libya goes dark amid recent upheaval
The Daily Advertiser
AP • March 6, 2011 NEW YORK — Internet services in Libya, already spotty throughout the country's violent upheaval, appeared completely halted in an attempt to stifle information about the insurrection. The move, coming ahead of planned protests in ...
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'Libyan academic' helped Gaddafi son draft PhD thesis
Sify
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son had reportedly plagiarised his PhD thesis at the London School of Economics, with reports saying that he had gathered "some PhD holders from Garyounis University in Benghazi in Libya to help him write his doctoral ...
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Nine more Canadians airlifted out of Libya
Calgary Herald
Rebel fighters fire an anti-aircraft gun at a government warplane near the Libyan town of Bin Jawad on Saturday. AC-130 Hercules plane carrying nine Canadian citizens among other nationals out of Libya, landed in Malta Saturday afternoon, ...
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Gadhafi supporters gather in Tripoli
msnbc.com
TRIPOLI, Libya — Thousands of Moammar Gadhafi's supporters poured into the streets of Tripoli on Sunday, waving flags and firing their guns in the air in the Libyan leader's main stronghold. Earlier, the city woke to the crackle of heavy machine-gun ...
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Libya: Tripoli gunfire was celebratory...New Zealand: Economic growth being ...
9&10 News
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Early morning heavy machine-gun fire has rattled residents of Libya's capital, Tripoli. Libyan authorities said the unusually heavy gunfire was celebratory, claiming that government forces had retaken the oil port of Ras Lanouf. ...
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Greeks checking whether Bangladeshi evacuees from Libya jumped ship to avoid ...
The Canadian Press
ATHENS, Greece — Greek authorities say three people have died and another 28 have been hospitalized on the southern island of Crete after they were found on a beach near where two ships carrying migrant workers evacuated from Libya recently arrived. ...
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Libya migrants' plight 'desperate'
Aljazeera.net
Andrew Mitchell, Britain's minister for international development, has said that migrants fleeing violence in Libya are in a "desperate position" and demanded that Libya allow world powers "unfettered access" to help them. ...
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Aljazeera.net
Gaddafi seeks UN probe into unrest in Libya
Sify
Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has said that the United Nations (UN) or the African Union should probe into the unrest rocking Libya, and promised investigators free access. Gaddafi, who made his first such demand since the outbreak of violent ...
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Britain trains 100 members of Gaddafi's feared police
Telegraph.co.uk
The visitors are believed to be members of Libya's ordinary police force, which investigates crime, rather than the controversial Internal Security Agency, which deals with political dissidents. However, Amnesty International, the human rights body, ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
* More Sri Lankan workers come home from Libya
Colombo Page
Mar 06, Colombo: Sri Lankan government has made arrangements to bring back another 186 Sri Lankans stranded in Libya and they are to arrive in the country Sunday, the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB) said. Sri Lankan government has chartered ...
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35860 Chinese nationals evacuated from Libya all back home: foreign ministry
Xinhua
BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- A total of 35860 Chinese nationals evacuated from Libya had all returned home, said a statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry late Saturday night. A chartered Shanghai Airlines flight FM608 touched down in Shanghai ...
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Xinhua
Britain Says 200 Troops Standing by For Libya
Voice of America
Britain's Defense Ministry says it has placed 200 troops on standby to help with evacuations and humanitarian operations in Libya. A spokeswoman for the ministry said Saturday that the legendary Third Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland - known ...
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Heavy machinegun fire rocks Libyan capital Tripoli
AsiaOne
TRIPOLI, Libya - Heavy automatic weapons fire erupted in the Libyan capital Tripoli Sunday, the first such outbreak in Muammar Gaddafi's main stronghold in a two-week-old insurrection against his 41-year-old rule. Government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim ...
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AsiaOne
In disorganized surge, Libya's rebels push west along shifting front line
Christian Science Monitor
Rebel fighters fire an anti-aircraft gun into the air near Bin Jawad, Libya. By Dan Murphy, Staff Writer / March 5, 2011 Sitting in the bed of a pickup rumbling full throttle toward the frontlines of the Libyan opposition's struggle against Muammar ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Observing the Libyan crisis in real time
Malaysia Kini
The crisis in Libya continues to be caught in an inconclusive stalemate, as pro-Gaddafi forces face off against the rebels of Tripoli, without any prospect of a quick win by other side. The rebel forces have taken control of Benghazi and other areas. ...
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Sub-Saharan African workers targeted in Libyan unrest
Monsters and Critics.com
By Kate Thomas Mar 6, 2011, 2:06 GMT Ras Ajdir, Tunisia - On the edge of the temporary tent camp 10 kilometres from Tunisia's border with Libya, Augustine Emianah stands in line, waiting to make a free phone call to his parents in Ghana. ...
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Libya: personal account of RAF pilot who took part in SAS rescue mission
Telegraph.co.uk
Flight Lieutenant Stuart Patton, Royal Air Force - personal account of the Hercules Operations in Libya. (Age 29 from Chelmsford Essex and is based at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.) I had been following the deteriorating situation in Libya on the news for ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
LIBYA: Toll in Rajmeh arms depot explosions near Benghazi may be as high as 100
Los Angeles Times
At a weapons depot east of Benghazi, the two large blasts Friday demolished buildings packed with munitions, making artillery craters 50 feet deep, littering acres of scorched land with twisted metal, bullet casings and burned tires. ...
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Rebels advance on Gadhafi's hometown, repel assaults by dictator
MiamiHerald.com
By NANCY A. YOUSSEF AND JONATHAN S. LANDAY BENGHAZI, Libya -- A ragtag rebel force in pickup trucks and commandeered tanks advanced Saturday from eastern Libya on Moammar Gadhafi's heavily defended hometown of Sirte as their counterparts in the western ...
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Obama Refines Talk of Libya Intervention
TIME
04, 2011 One of those voices belongs to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has repeatedly said that "nothing is off the table so long as the Libyan government continues to threaten and kill Libyans." That talk has been amplified by calls from ...
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Libya Live Blog - March 6 | Al Jazeera Blogs
By Al Jazeera Staff
As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the globe. Al Jazeera is not responsible for content derived from external sites. ...
Al Jazeera Blogs | Al Jazeera blogs Feed - http://blogs.aljazeera.net/
Internet access blocked across much of Libya -- Engadget
By Laura June
It's sort of becoming the 'thing to do' when people are revolting: find a way to cut people's access to the internet. This happened across.
Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/
Libya: Preparing for the Fight for Sirte (Video) · Global Voices
By John Liebhardt
@LibyanStateTV: We're reporting that Sirte is completely stable and will remain so. They assure us that all is well and ask us to stop calling them #libya. We now have Tweeps speculating on the possibility of fighting in Sirte: ...
Global Voices in English - http://globalvoicesonline.org/
Jim Cowie: What Libya Learned From Egypt
By Jim Cowie
Someone in Libya is still watching YouTube, even though the rest of the country is dark.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Malou Innocent: Leaving Libya Well Enough Alone
By Malou Innocent
To reduce anti-American radicalism we must: acknowledge that it exists; understand what fuels it; and, understand how our actions are perceived in a foreign context.
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/
SOUTH LEBANON: Stay out of Libya
By Jnoubiyeh
It's good to see that the Pentagon is unenthusiastic about military intervention in Libya. But that hasn't stopped armchair generals such as Sen. John Kerry from pushing for a no-fly zone over that country. ...
SOUTH LEBANON - http://jnoubiyeh.com/
LIBYA: Toll in Rajmeh arms depot explosions near Benghazi may be ...
By Rachel Dunn
When the second explosion erupted, windows miles away shattered. At a weapons depot east of Benghazi, the two large blasts Friday demolished buildings packed with munitions, making artillery craters 50 feet deep, littering acres of ...
Babylon & Beyond - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/
News: Frontline Libya | Plog — World news photography, Photos ...
As rebel militiamen advance on the front line against government troops in Libya , photojournalists are on the move with them. On Saturday, March 5, opposition forces pushed troops loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi further west as ...
Denver Post: All Blogs - http://blogs.denverpost.com/
Middle East, North Africa Protests: How Egypt, Libya, Yemen And ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Massive protests are continuing to sweep through the Middle East and North Africa, sparked by civil uprisings in both Tunisia and Egypt that led to the ouster of those countries' rulers.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raw_feed_index.rdf
p2pnet news » Blog Archive » The new Republic of Libya: temporary ...
By Jon
p2pnet view P2P | Freedom:- Libyans determined to rid themselves of Muammar Gaddafi, the dictator who's ruled their lives for more than 40 years, have published a declaration for a temporary council in the Republic of Libya, says Alive ...
p2pnet news - http://www.p2pnet.net/
» Libya appoints new UN envoy - Vanguard (Nigeria)
Libya has appointed former Foreign Minister Ali Abdussalam Treki as its UN envoy in New York, replacing an ambassador who renounced the Libyan leadership, the United Nations said on Friday. “The Secretary-General (Ban Ki-moon) has ...
Vanguard News - http://www.vanguardngr.com/
Can Venezuela Solve Libya's Problems?
Moammar Gadhafi is running out of friends...but he still has one left in Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who so far has not condemned Libya's leader for waging war on his own citizens. Now, Venezuela's Foreign Minister says that Libya has ...
About.com Latin American History - http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/b/
2011 Libyan uprising - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2011 Libyan uprising began as a series of protests and confrontations occurring in the North African state of Libya against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_uprising
Libya
The United States warns U.S. citizens against travel to Libya and recommends that U.S. citizens in Libya depart immediately. The United States advised the ...
travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_5358.html
BBC News - Libya protests: Gaddafi's son warns of civil war
The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi goes on TV to warn of civil war, as protests that have left scores dead spread to Tripoli.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12520586
What's Happening in Libya Explained | Mother Jones
Last week, Libyan dissident Najla Aburrahman begged western media to pay attention to the bloodbath unfolding in her country. "If the Libyan protesters are ...
motherjones.com/mojo/.../whats-happening-libya-explained
Libya protests spread and intensify - Africa - Al Jazeera English
Diplomats resign and air force officers defect as Gaddafi government resorts to shooting and bombing to crush uprising.
english.aljazeera.net/news/.../02/2011221133557377576.html
Downing Street Says » Libya
He had set out yesterday that our focus had been getting British nationals out of Libya in recent days and our focus now would shift to exerting pressure on ...
downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2011/02/28/9559
Libya protests – as they happened | World news | guardian.co.uk
Libya's unrest spread to the capital Tripoli on Sunday after scores of protesters were killed in the second city Benghazi, which appeared to have slipped ...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/20/libya-protests
Libya | Common Dreams
WASHINGTON - February 24 - The following Libyan analysts are available for a limited number of interviews on the situation in Libya, its history and U.S. ...
www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/02/24-10
Muammar el-Qaddafi Orders Brutal Crackdown in Libya - NYTimes.com
Nearly 10000 supporters of the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, gathered in Tripoli after his speech to the nation. More Photos » ...
www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/world/africa/23libya.html
Gadhafi's hold on Libya weakens in protest wave - Yahoo! News
Deep cracks opened in Moammar Gadhafi's regime Monday, with Libyan government officials at home and abroad resigning, air force pilots defecting and a ...
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on.../af_libya_protests
Libya protests: Gaddafi's rambling TV address 'I'll die here as a ...
Libyan leader attacked the international community and said he has no plans to step down after hundreds were killed when his supporters opened fire on ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Libya-protests-Gaddafis-rambling-TV...
U.S. announces sanctions against Libya, suspends embassy ...
The U.S. government announced Friday that it will impose sanctions against the regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi -- part of a series of measures designed to ...
www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/25/.../index.html?hpt...
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