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UN chief warns of casualties in Libya as fighting continues
Xinhua
BENGHAZI, Libya, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern at rising civilian casualties in Libya and called for a political solution to end the conflict. His call came as rebels claimed a major victory after seizing part ...
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Libyan Rebels, in Show of Unity, Plan for Transition
Wall Street Journal
By CHARLES LEVINSON BENGHAZI, Libya—Rebel officials here, amid signs of disarray in their leadership, have ramped up preparations for governing Libya after the fall of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, drafting a timeline for elections and a plan for establishing ...
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Protesters overrun Libyan embassy in Sweden
Aljazeera.net
Police have stormed the Libyan embassy in Stockholm and arrested seven men who had broken in and threatened to kill themselves or set fire to the building if their demands were not met. The intruders hung a flag of the Libyan revolution on the ...
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Aljazeera.net
In Libya, A Father And Son's Brief War
NPR
by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro Mabruk Eshnuk (left) and his son Malik left their home in Pittsburgh to volunteer and fight with rebels in western Libya's Nafusa Mountains. About a month ago, I met Mabruk and Malik Eshnuk, a father and son who had traveled ...
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DIY weapons, armoured vehicles prove effective for Libyan rebels
Globe and Mail
If any future museum showcases the way rebels beat the regime in Libya, the exhibits will likely include homemade weapons that look like props from a Mad Max movie: a shotgun fashioned from a steel pipe; a troop carrier built from scratch; ...
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Globe and Mail
Libya, Iran revel in mocking Britain over riots
CNN International
And turning the tables, after enduring sustained criticism from the West, it was authoritarian regimes such as Iran and Libya that delighted in mocking Britain over riots that have engulfed its major cities. The criticism came as other nations around ...
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Libyan rebel council seeks envoy in Ottawa
Vancouver Sun
By Amy Chung, Postmedia News August 10, 2011 Libyan rebels come under fire at an intersection beyond Bir Ghanam during fighting with forces loyal to Libya's leader Moammar Gadhafi, 80 kilometres southwest of the Libyan capital Tripoli on August 6, ...
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Libya's Qaddafi Faces Fourth Month Without Gasoline Shipments
BusinessWeek
10 (Bloomberg) -- Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi faces a fourth month without receiving gasoline cargoes by sea as motorists wait in line at filling stations in the capital. Rebels opposing Qaddafi received three to four cargoes of gasoline a month in ...
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Libya bans unauthorised Thurayas, to treat users as spies
Reuters
RABAT (Reuters) - Libya warned Thursday that any of its citizens found using a Thuraya satellite phone without a permit would be treated as a spy for NATO. The official JANA news agency said people using Thurayas, one of the most easily available ...
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Tunisia says army to curb fuel smuggling to Libya
Reuters Africa
TUNIS Aug 11 (Reuters) - Tunisia said on Thursday its troops were patrolling fuel stations to curb the flow of smuggled gasoline into neighbouring Libya, a trade which is helping Muammar Gaddafi hold on to power. International sanctions and the effects ...
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Syria, Libya and Middle East unrest - live updates
The Guardian
Syrians in Latakia protesting against the government: the opposition Local Co-Ordination Committees says it has counted 257 dead since the beginning of the crackdown on the eve of Ramadan. Photograph: Shaam News Network/EPA 9.16am: Welcome to Middle ...
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The Guardian
Cameron using mercenaries in riots - Libya
News24
Rabat - Libyan state television on Thursday said Prime Minister David Cameron was using "Irish and Scottish mercenaries" to tame riots in England. "The rebels of Britain approach Liverpool in hit-and-run battles with Cameron's brigades and mercenaries ...
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Is Gaddafi's Daughter, Believed Killed by a US Air Strike, Alive and Well?
TIME
Then in February 2011, Welt am Sonntag, the Sunday Edition of Die Welt, obtained a copy of a document related to the case that came to light in Switzerland after fighting broke out in Libya, and the Swiss government ordered Gaddafi assets in ...
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Huge gain...Texas governor running...Key win for Libyan rebels
9&10 News
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libyan rebels say they've captured a key oil terminal from Moammar Gadhafi's troops. Brega, along the country's Mediterranean coast, has repeatedly changed hands in the 6-month-old civil war. LONDON (AP) — British authorities ...
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Libyan envoy holds talks in Athens
eTaiwan News
AP Libya's foreign minister held talks in Athens with his Greek counterpart Thursday, as part of international efforts to launch a diplomatic process aimed at ending the civil war in Libya. Greek diplomats said Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi's meeting with Greek ...
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Denmark extends Libya mission, says rebels can send envoy
Daily Nation
Head of Libya's Transitional National Council (TNC) Mustafa Abdel Jalil gives a press conference in the Libyan rebel stronghold city of Benghazi on July 27, 2011. Photo/AFP By AFP Denmark decided Thursday to extend its participation in NATO operations ...
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Daily Nation
Splits emerge within Gaddafi regime over alliance with Islamic fundamentalists
Telegraph.co.uk
“Mr Saif has his point of view but what matters is what the people of Libya want,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “The Libyan government is coherent, it has one official position. We have our hierarchy which is taking these positions. ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Libya farmers looking for lost camels
News24
Misrata - A dozen ruddy-faced men rest their arms on a wall and peer anxiously into a dust-filled enclosure on the outskirts of the besieged western Libyan city of Misrata. They are farmers, here in search of their camels. It's nearly six months since ...
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World Service launches on FM in Libyan cities
Journalism.co.uk
The BBC is to extend World Service content to FM radio in two Libyan cities. In a release today (11 August), the broadcaster announced the launch of content on FM in Benghazi and Misrata. The move comes weeks after a pledge by the government to ...
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Journalism.co.uk
E.on blames Japan quake and Libya for price hikes
Burton Mail
by JOSH TAYLOR THE Japanese earthquake and the conflict in Libya are both being peddled as excuses by the latest energy giant to announce crippling price hikes. E.on, which made a £5.4 billion global profit in 2010, has sent letters to customers ...
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Libya: Weapons Transfers - the French and Qatar Connections
AllAfrica.com
Arms controls continue to be flouted in the context of the Libyan armed conflict. Both France and Qatar have openly admitted to supplying arms to the rebels as a complementary strategy to the NATO-led air strikes. Such actions not only undermine the ...
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Health care under attack around world
Herald Sun
"Hospitals in Sri Lanka and Somalia shelled, ambulances in Libya shot at, and paramedics in Colombia killed." Assaults on health care personnel, facilities and vehicles in conflict zones leave millions of people around the world without care, ...
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Austria's OMV Q2 profit falls 25% on Libya's war
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
(MENAFN) OMV's chief executive, Gerhard Roiss, said that due to the political upheaval in Libya, the Austrian oil firm's profit dropped 25 percent in the second quarter to USD337.6 million from USD449 million in the same period in 2010, reported The ...
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Millions to March this Weekend to Protest Libyan Bombings
POPDECAY
Americans opposing the Western invasion of Libya and the oppression of African-Americans in both Africa and the United States plan to rally this weekend in Harlem at Malcolm X boulevard and 110th Street at 10am. The Millions March, organized by ...
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POPDECAY
Libya: NATO killing civilians in Tripoli to provoke unrest
Spero News
said Tiziana Gamannossi, a Tripoli-based Italian businesswoman who spoke to AsiaNews about the latest NATO strike on the village of Majar (south of Zlitan, 160 km from Tripoli) last Tuesday, which according to the Libyan government killed at least 85 ...
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Libya takes a pop at the Strathclyde 'mercenaries'
Scotsman
By Rob Corbidge It MAY come as a surprise to the worthy men and women of Strathclyde Police sent to assist in the towns of northern England, but they are "mercenaries". The rioters of England have, momentarily at least, given the UK's international ...
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SEC eyes Goldman Sachs' Libya deals
FierceFinance
It was known previously that Goldman Sachs' controversial dealings with a Libyan sovereign wealth fund had landed it in hot water. Recall that Goldman Sachs scored a coup when it secured a $1.3 billion commitment from the fund with a mandate to invest ...
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Canada and Libyan Rebels: BFF?
The Mark
You might have been distracted by the riots in Britain, or the faux-scandal over NDP interim Leader Nycole Turmel, or the credit crisis in the US, or your vacation, but Canada is still dropping bombs onLibya with no end to the conflict in sight. ...
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 12, 2011 « Stop NATO
By richardrozoff
Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 12, 2011. August 12, 2011 richardrozoff Leave a comment Go to comments. ==== South African President Condemns NATO Over Libya. Denmark Extends NATO War Mission In Libya ...
Stop NATO
In Libya, A Father And Son's Brief War
Father and son Mabruk and Malik Eshnuk recently traveled from Pittsburgh to western Libya to help rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi. NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro updates the story with their first and last battle.
GPB News Feed
Ban 'Concerned' by Libya Violence | New Middle East News
By admin
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced alarm on Thursday over recent reports of civilians killed in Libya, Reuters reported. “The Secretary General is deeply concerned by reports of the unacceptably large number of civilian ...
New Middle East News
In Libya, A Father And Son's Brief War | KOSU Radio
By KOSU News
In Libya, A Father And Son's Brief War. Filed by KOSU News in US News. August 11, 2011. About a month ago, I met Mabruk and Malik Eshnuk, a father and son who had traveled from Pittsburgh to western Libya to help rebels battling forces ...
KOSU Radio
Libyan rebels claim victory in key oil terminal - World news
Libyan rebels battling Moammar Gadhafi's troops along the country's Mediterranean coast said they captured a key oil terminal Thursday...
Mail.com: Breaking News
Egypt, Libya... UK? Cameron calls to disrupt social media — RT
By RT
British PM David Cameron is considering banning looters from social networks used to organize the country riots as he addressed the British parliament in the wake of clashes that engulfed the country.
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Libya rebels claim victory in key oil terminal | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
Libyan rebels battling Moammar Gadhafi's troops along the country's Mediterranean coast said they captured a key oil terminal Thursday after three weeks of hand-to-hand fighting.
Examiner RSS
UN chief urges political solution to Libyan crisis - News Rickey
By BNO
UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) -- The United Nations (UN) on Thursday called for a political solution to end the ongoing civil war in Libya, which has left thou.
News Rickey
Russia 'backs' NATO action in Libya « Russian News From Russia
By admin
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday gave his backing to a UN Security Council resolution which authorized international military action in Libya. UN Resolution 1973, which Russia abstained from voting on in March, authorizes a ...
Russian News From Russia
Tunisia says army to curb fuel smuggling to Libya - Arab News
... that neither Tunisians nor Libyans can fill up with large quantities,” defense ministry official Mokhtar Ben Nasr told a news conference. “These checks are aimed at preventing the smuggling of diesel and gasoline to Libya,” he said. ...
arabnews - frontpage
Imperial Plans for Libya Post-Gaddafi - MWC News
By mwcnews@gmail.com (Stephen Lendman)
On August 8, AFP reported at least 85 civilians killed in Majer village near Zlitan in western Libya. Government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim called it "a crime beyond imagination," saying the dead included 32 women, 32 children, ...
MWC News
Incompetent NATO Openly Commits Atrocities in Libya ...
By Cleaves News Poetry
True to form, the North Atlantic Terrorist Organisation -- NATO -- commits more atrocities in Libya. Not content with murdering three of Gaddafi's grandchildren during the initial stages of NATO's criminal campaign in Libya, NATO is now ...
Cleaves News Poetry Newswire
Police storm Libyan Embassy in Stockholm
Seven men were arrested Thursday after they broke in to the Libyan embassy in Stockholm, threatening to kill themselves or set fire to the building if their demands were not met. Their arrest came after police stormed the embassy.
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Protesters Break into Libya Embassy in Sweden | Radio Sawt Beirut ...
By Carol Maher
A group of people broke into Libya's embassy in Stockholm Thursday and at least one appeared to be threatening to jump from a window, police said, adding the break-in seemed to be part of a demonstration. ...
Radio Sawt Beirut International...
Libya news-latest- 31-07-2011‏ - YouTube
Libya news-latest- 31-07-2011. MegaDavehunter 414 videos. Subscribe ... Told YA thats NOTLibyan News !!! perhaps benghasi criminal gangs news, or something ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObZrqncV8lY
Libya | Moammar Kadafi's intransigence has muted Libya rebel ...
Graffiti and billboards here tell a tale of dashed hopes and an uncertain future in a nation divided between Moammar Kadafi's tenacious regime in western ...
articles.latimes.com/2011/.../la-fg-libya-rebels-mood-2011080...
TNC more democratic than Qadhafi regime: U.S. : Libya News
No Debt Ceiling Deal, Gold and Silver Going Much Higher, Libya-Gaddafi Can Stay: Weekly NewsWrap-Up. youtube. US is Losing Economic Cold War with China, ...
connect.in.com/.../tnc-more-democratic-than-qadhafi-regime-...
Anderson Cooper in Libya News Videos Online — VideoSurf Video Search
Libya News Anderson Cooper. (Explicit Filter on | Change). Embed Results. Sort By: Relevance, Popularity, Newest, Oldest, Longest to Shortest ...
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Cda joins propaganda air war over Libya - News - MSN CA
Canadian surveillance planes join propaganda war; urge Gadhafi forces to go home - CATANIA, Italy - Canada has joined an air war of a different kind i.
news.ca.msn.com/.../cda-joins-propaganda-air-war-over-libya
Norway to withdraw fighters involved in the bombing of Libya ...
Norway to withdraw fighters involved in the bombing of Libya ... www.f-paper.com Free Paper:FreeNews, China News, U.S. News, World News, Provides newspaper ...
www.f-paper.com/?i685616-Norway-to-withdraw...in...
Breaking Libya News... | Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, ...
www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid...id...
'Rival rebel factions clash in Libya' - news trends: TopInUK
The information minister of Libya's rebel movement said its forces have overrun the base of a rival faction after five hours of fighting. - Read news topics ...
www.topinuk.com/topic/rival-rebel-factions-clash-in-libya

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