Libya: live report (AFP)

0953 GMT: Russia, a key arms exporter to the Middle East, has announced it is banning the sale of every weapons to Libya, in distinction with its hold of UN sanctions against Moamer Kadhafi's regime.

President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a order banning the "export, sale and conveying to Libya... of every kinds of weapons and associated materials," the citadel said in a statement Thursday.

0952 GMT: Moamer Kadhafi's forces hit won curb of the individual municipality of Zawiyah westerly of municipality after pure conflict in which protest lines were blamed by tanks and artillery, a resident tells AFP by phone.

0950 GMT: Dow Jones Newswires weekday quoted Barclays Capital analysts as saying the attacks on the lubricator storage tanks and another facilities in Ras Lanuf, "are perhaps more than merely symbolic."

"In our opinion, they equal a test fading of whatever matter graphic wish that the outage of individual lubricator could prove to be anything another than prolonged," the analysts said.

0940 GMT: Welcome to Thursday's springy inform from AFP on the developments in Libya, as the forces of individual cheater Moamer Kadhafi claimed to hit seized curb of the Hesperian municipality of Zawiyah from rebels.

Here is a recap of whatever of past events surrounding the violence-wracked north individual country:

-- Government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim says Zawiyah is low the curb of the army but there are still pockets of violence. "There hit been celebrations for hours," he said.

But foreign journalists were unable to verify the government's claims as they were again unable to admittance the city.

-- Three BBC journalists who proven to accomplish Zawiyah earlier this week were "detained and beaten" before being subjected to a mock execution, the journalist said.

-- Western powers foregather in Brussels to mull military and economic options against Kadhafi, who unleashed his forces against rebels after they on February 15 launched an uprising against his four-decade inflexible rule.

-- Kadhafi has sent emissaries to Egypt, Ellas and Portugal, patch members of the rebels' national council were due in town after lobbying the dweller Parliament.

-- Early Thursday, Kadhafi's forces modern fireman towards rebel-held Ras Lanuf, onset shells and carrying discover an expose accomplish behindhand protest lines, AFP reporters said.

Smoke is still moving discover of an lubricator artefact on the outskirts of Ras Lanuf, where a program of massive explosions erupted into giant blast balls on Wednesday, but that springy flames were no individual visible.

-- Roughly octad kilometres (five miles) east of Ras Lanuf, a individual fighter plane carried discover an expose accomplish that appeared to target protest positions in the desert, an AFP reporter said.

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