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LIBYA News, Aug 16, 2011


Libya: Netherlands gives £87 million of frozen assets to WHO
Telegraph.co.uk
The Dutch government has given 100 million euros (£87 million) in frozen Libyanassets to the World Health Organisation to distribute medicine to the Libyan people. Ward Bezemer, a foreign ministry spokesman confirmed the amount had been unfrozen, ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Mystery over Libya minister's Egypt trip
ABC Online
A Libyan rebel fighter in the residential area of Brega as battles raged west of the town. Egypt's state news agency says the Libyan interior minister has arrived in Cairo with members of his family. It is not clear if Nasser al-Mabrouk Abdullah has ...
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Downing Street powerless to force return of Lockerbie bomber
Telegraph.co.uk
The admission came amid some speculation that the bomber may be seized and passed to Nato forces during the ongoing conflict in Libya. This weekend marks the second anniversary of the release of Megrahi who was freed from prison after a medical...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Libya will not regain full oil output for at least three years: Woodmac
Platts
Libya will not be able to restore oil production to pre-crisis levels of 1.6 million b/d from less than 100000 b/d now until three years after the end of hostilities, Edinburgh-based consultancy Wood Mackenzie said in a report released Monday. ...
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World Week Ahead: Mubarak Hearing Postponed; Libya's Rebels Advance
PBS NewsHour
The judge in the trial of Egypt's deposed President Hosni Mubarak delayed proceedings until next month, while in Libya rebels claimed to have taken a key port city in their advance toward the capital. EGYPT | The judge overseeing Mubarak's trial on ...
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PBS NewsHour
48 000 flee Libya, Tunisia for Italy
News24
Rome - More than 48 000 immigrants from Libya and Tunisia have arrived in Italy since the beginning of the year, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said on Monday. Official statistics showed that up to July 31, 24 769 immigrants had come from Tunisia and ...
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US: Libyan rebels have upper hand
Politico
“We have obviously done a lot to support their efforts to ensure that Qadhafi's regime no longer had the capacity or has the capacity to attack the Libyan people,” Carney added. “And we, as I said, note the fact that the pressure on him continues to ...
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Politico
These indiscriminate killers leave their deadly legacy from Libya to Lebanon
The Independent
By Jerome Taylor In early April, as troops loyal to the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi laid siege to the town of Misrata, those trapped inside the port city noticed that their opponents had begun to use a previously unseen artillery round. ...
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Gazprom Second-Quarter European Sales Jump After Libyan Conflict
Bloomberg
By Jack Jordan and Anna Shiryaevskaya - Mon Aug 15 16:31:47 GMT 2011 OAO Gazprom said natural-gas sales in Europe increased 20 percent in the second quarter after Libya's supply disruptions boosted demand for the Russian fuel. Gazprom sold 38.3 billion ...
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RAF and Navy in further action over Libya
defpro
15:09 GMT, August 15, 2011 RAF Tornados and Typhoons have been in action once again this weekend over Libya, with support from HMS Liverpool, as part of NATO's Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR. On Thursday morning, Royal Air Force Tornado GR4s destroyed a ...
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600 tonnes relief material to Libya
Oman Daily Observer
Second batch aid soon - Ceasefire talks begin - The first batch of Omani aid supplies were distributed to Libyan refugees staying in Tunisia and other places - By ONA/Agencies - MUSCAT — The first batch of Omani relief supplies has been distributed to ...
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Fewer late payments...Obama defends compromise...Libya fires Scud
9&10 News
WASHINGTON (AP) — US defense officials say Libyan government forces have tapped into their stockpiles of Scud missiles, firing one this weekend for the first time in this year's conflict with rebels. But they say the missile landed harmlessly in the ...
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Libya: NATO is getting desperate, Misratah liberated from NATO/terrorists
Pravda
First, the persistent loss of territory by the criminal gangs of foreign terrorists they back, then the disarray within the TNC (a gang of opportunists), then the flagrant breach of international law, the war crimes, targeting the Libyan water supply ...
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Destroying America's reputation by rebuilding Libya's
The Hill (blog)
The firm has received fervent public backlash after its work to enhance the reputation of Libyandictator Moammar Gadhafi was exposed in March by The Boston Globe. The company acknowledged in July that it erred in representing Libya and other ...
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International Campaign to Stop the War in Libya
Mathaba.Net
By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey and Adam King By now the information coming out of Libya is clear for all to see, except western news agencies which continue to spread lies, but by now they are half-hearted key-words uttered without any conviction. ...
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Madonna 'likes to talk about Libya', says Cornish
First Post
By Sophie Taylor Madonna has a keen interest in technology and the situation inLibya, according to Australian actress Abbie Cornish, who offers us this window into the pop star-turned director's soul in the course of an interview to promote her latest ...
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First Post
Azeem Ibrahim: Stalemate reflects a lack of foresight
Scotsman
By Azeem Ibrahim ADDING to the horribly expensive failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, we now have a quagmire in Libya. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it and if we needed yet one more lesson on the folly of trying to bomb our way to ...
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Italy: 2000 migrants have landed on Lampedusa over the weekend
Ennahar
Thousands of people fleeing Libya, mostly migrant workers from Africa and refugees from conflicts in the region, arrived in recent months in Lampedusa. Hundreds of them drowned. In April, 250 migrants died in a shipwreck off the island. ...
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Rebels' Recent Successes Achieved with Some Pain
Tripoli Post
Libya's rebels fighting to oust the Libyan leader, Muammar Al Qathafi from power said that their recent successes were achieved not without pain. They said they suffered many casualties. On Sunday as they advanced on the regime forces that were still ...
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Arab Spring: live
Telegraph.co.uk
#Feb17 #Libya 08.40: An international panel investigating Bahrain's unrest closed its office this morning after angry crowds scuffled with staff members following reports that government officials would be cleared of committing abuses against ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Libya News: Kadhafi charges Libyans to defeat NATO, liberate country
Afrique en Ligue
Tripoli, Libya - Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi has again called on Libyans to fight for the liberation of their country by defeating NATO and other traitors. In an address to a crowd of protesters at the Green Square in Tripoli, which was broadcast by ...
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Mehmanparast denies arrest of PKK's number-2 man
Islamic Republic News Agency
Mehmanparast called for halting military violence and attacks in Libya, urging all to do their utmost to stop violence and establish peace and security in Libya. He stressed that any kind of meddling of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces, ...
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Islamic Republic News Agency
€7000 collected in aid of the Caritas Libya refugees fund
Gozo News
The Caritas Malta Emergency Aid Commission has raised €7014.77 in aid of migrants fleeing theLibyan borders towards Egypt, Tunisia, Niger and Algeria. This is one of the latest migration crises faced since the first Gulf War 1990. ...
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Hawkish Foreign Policy at Odds with Popular Priorities
Inter Press Service
By Paul Weinberg TORONTO, Aug 15, 2011 (IPS) - Canada has flexed its military muscles, first in Afghanistan for nine years alongside NATO forces, and now in Libya in its supply of ships and combat planes for the rebel forces, but little debate has ...
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A Snapshot of Upstream Oil: Halliburton and Schlumberger
Seeking Alpha
In addition important operations for HAL exist in volatile regions in the Middle East and Africa (Libyawas one of them). SLB has less exposure to the risk since it is more spread out. SLB has a more balanced operating system. ...
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Libya Rebels Declare Tripoli 'Encircled'
Antiwar.com
by Jason Ditz, August 15, 2011 Regime forces confirmed that rebels were in Garyan, but insisted that it was a relatively small number and that they would soon be driven out. NATO, likewise, termed the rebel's hold on Zawiya tenuous, at best. ...
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Antiwar.com
Turkey increases oil supplies for Libyan rebels
vestnik kavkaza
Turkey is increasing supplies of diesel fuel for Libyan opposition in Benghazi, ITAR-TASS reports. A total of 10000 tons of fuel worth $10 million was sent to Benghazi from Turkey in July. The next portion will consist of over 100000 barrels and will ...
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Netherlands gives frozen Libyan to WHO
Sky News Australia
The Dutch government has given E100 million ($A138.36 million) in frozen Libyan assets to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to distribute medicine to the Libyan people, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday. 'An amount of E100 million in Libyan ...
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Link TV
Libya: In an audio message on Libyan state television, Libyan Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi called on his supporters to prepare to fight to recapture the cities controlled by the revolutionaries, and predicted a swift end to the opposition and NATO. ...
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Libyan interior minister appears to have defected
Newsday (subscription)
Click here Libyan interior minister appears to have defected Originally published: August 15, 2011 6:03 AM Updated: August 15, 2011 7:42 AM By The Associated Press KARIN LAUB (Associated Press), MAAMOUN YOUSSEF (Associated Press) (AP) -- Libya's ...
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Newsday (subscription)
Could French Doubts On Afghanistan Influence Future Foreign Policy?
TIME (blog)
Yet with support of the mission in both Afghanistan and Libya now waning among voters, any Socialist cynicism that may have been involved also seems to be rooted in significant public impatience with foreign entanglements--and therefore potentially ...
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Lost Lords of the Sahara
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
At the turn of the 20th century, the Tuareg were the last of the West African peoples to be pacified by the French, and their lands were absorbed into parts of Niger, Mali, Algeria, and Libya. Those governments generally ignored their fractious Tuareg ...
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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Is This Spring Time For Amazigh Too?
Morocco Board News Service
In Libya they man the rebels' western front in the mountains south of the capital still held by Muammar Qaddafi. Even in Egypt's oasis of Siwa, near Libya's border, Berbers are finding that the revolution has given them a chance to revive their ...
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Ranhill unit scraps RM3.8bil Libya job
Malaysia Star
By M. HAFIDZ MAHPAR PETALING JAYA: Ranhill Bhd subsidiary Amona Ranhill Consortium Sdn Bhd (ARC) has aborted its US$1.2bil (RM3.58bil) housing project in Libya due to the social and political unrest in the country. Ranhill said in a filing with Bursa ...
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Libya's Zawiyah on edge after rebel capture
Reuters
By Michael Georgy ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - For 12 hours, Libyan rebel Ahmed Oraybee had been moving from one building to the next in the town of Zawiyah, trying to hunt down the pro-government snipers stalking its neighborhoods. ...
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Fighting rages in Libya | Top Stories | BigPond News
Libyan rebels deny they were in talks with Muammar Gaddafi's regime, as fighting raged in the east and west.
Priority Top Stories
U.S. encouraged by rebel gains in Libya - Marine Corps News | News ...
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expressing hope that Libyan rebels have broken the military stalemate with forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, but they stopped short Monday of predicting rebel victory after months of stalemate.
Marine Corps Times - News
Long Range Libya Mission
On Wednesday night (10 Aug) RAF Tornado aircraft launched from RAF Marham in East Anglia to conduct 8-hour round-trip missions over...
RAF News
Libya rebels claim most of key town Zawiyah - ModernGhana.com
ZAWIYAH, Libya AFP - Rebels said on Monday they have seized most of Zawiyah, the final hurdle on the road to Tripoli, as the UN chiefs special envoy visited Tunis for talks on Libyas future and Moamer Kadhafis interior minister flew out ...
ModernGhana News
Libyan rebels try to isolate Tripoli, Gadhafi - World news
Libya's rebels threatened to isolate Tripoli by blocking key supply routes and cutting oil pipelines on Monday after a dramatic weekend...
Mail.com: Breaking News
Gadhafi forces try to block Libyan rebel advance - World news
Moammar Gadhafi's forces pushed rebels back from the center of the strategic city of Zawiya on Monday in fierce fighting to try to...
Mail.com: Breaking News
Libyan rebels try to isolate Tripoli, Gadhafi - NewsOn6.com ...
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Libyan rebels try to isolate Tripoli, Gadhafi - Home » Other ...
Libya's rebels threatened to isolate Tripoli by blocking key supply routes and cutting oil pipelines on Monday after a dramatic weekend advance put them in the strongest position since the 6-month-old civil war began to attack Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold. ... READ OTHER NEWS ...
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Momentum in Libya shifting to rebels | End the Lie - Independent News
By Madison Ruppert
Libya's interior minister has reportedly left the country and travelled to Cairo. Reports also suggestLibyan rebels have taken control of parts of the.
End the Lie - Independent News
US encouraged by rebel gains in Libya (AP) | US Elections News
By usadmin
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration expressed hope Monday that Libyan rebels have broken the military stalemate with forces loyal to M...
US Elections News
Who is in control of the Libyan opposition? — War in Context
By News Source
The retired accounting professor who runs the city council of the Libyan rebel capital wants you to know: “There is good news in Benghazi!” Just ignore the smell. “Electricity, benzene, water, gas — all okay. ...
War in Context
Post-Qaddafi Instability in Libya » ElectionGuide Digest ...
By admin
The paper, Post-Qaddafi Instability in Libya, analyzes the potential outcomes of a post-Qaddafi regime and the implications from these outcomes. The aim of the paper is to pre-emptively look at the possible scenarios that may arise in ...
ElectionGuide Digest
NATO'S Massacre at Majer, Libya | Set You Free News
By Renata
Majer, Libya – Located about 20 miles east of the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna, six miles south of Zliten, and off Libya's southern coast across the Mediterranean from Rome, Majer was a picturesque village known for the fine ...
Set You Free News
Tripoli, Libya - News, photos, topics, and quotes
The latest news on Tripoli, Libya, from thousands of sources worldwide. High- quality photos, articles, blog posts, quotes, and more.
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Civil War In Libya — News Updates August 4, 2011 | War Slave
Libya Allying With Islamists, Qaddafi Son Says -- New York Times TRIPOLI, Libya — After six months battling a rebellion that his family portrayed as an ...
warslave.com/civil-war-in-libya-news-updates-august-4-2011...

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