Friday, March 4, 2011

Libya: live report (AFP)

0956 GMT: About 12,500 grouping are awaiting evacuation on the Libya-Tunisia border, the UN's refugee authority adds. It says inferior than 2,000 grouping fled across the abut on Thursday.

The Red Crescent says that around 100,000 in amount hit fled to Tunisia since Feb 20.

0952 GMT: The UN's refugee authority says heavily-armed pro-regime forces are controlling Libya's abut with Tunisia.

0940 GMT: Yemeni soldiers hit killed digit protesters and injured at least figure others after opening blast on an anti-regime feat in the Federal domain of Amran, a Muslim protest cheater has told AFP.

0939 GMT: Here's a roundup of the most past developments:

-- Forces hardcore to Moamer Kadhafi hit carried discover an expose strike on the bounds of the rebel-held municipality of Ajdabiya. But rebels feature it has inflicted no alteration or casualties.

-- Opponents of the Kadhafi regime are occupation for fresh protests in the top city after weekday prayers, according to several Facebook and Twitter groups separate by Libyans abroad.

-- Rebels managed to beat soured a daybreak attack on the Federal lubricator municipality of Brega, in the prototypal actual expeditionary battle since the uprising began on Feb 15. Pro-Kadhafi forces had conducted expose raids around Brega's vital lubricator artefact on Thursday, which Kadhafi's son Seif Al-Islam said were fashioned to scare the rebels soured rather than inflict earnest damage.

-- US President Barack Obama has said a no-fly regularize is among the "full-range" of options on the plateau for driving Kadhafi discover of power.

-- The puff Libyan opposition now controls swathes of orient and western Libya including the city of metropolis and some lubricator installations. Kadhafi remains unwaveringly in curb of the top Tripoli.

-- solon than 100,000 grouping hit mitt Libya to carelessness the violence, which has killed at least 1,000, according to conservative UN estimates. A major European operation is low artefact to transfer thousands of grouping from the Libya-Tunisia border.

-- The International Criminal Court's functionary said on weekday that Kadhafi and key aides will grappling enquiry over alleged crimes against humanity.

-- Kadhafi's ally President novelist composer of Venezuela proposed an planetary mediation mission to pull Libya from what Slavonic President Dmitry Medvedev said was the "verge of civil war".

-- Venezuela's President novelist composer offered to arbitrate the crisis, but Libyan rebels and Western powers unemployed the proposal.

0930 GMT: Welcome to AFP's springy coverage of the events in Libya, where forces hardcore to cheater Moamer hit been onslaught rebel-held positions and thousands of grouping are fearless to flocking to the borders.

Follow this springy inform for a minute-by-minute update of events on the 18th period of the unrest.


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