TIMISOARA, Romania (AFP) - A Libyan woman who accused soldiers loyal to strongman Moamer Kadhafi of raping her, has arrived at a refugee centre in western Romania, a UN official said Tuesday.
"The UNHCR successfully evacuated Iman al-Obeidi from Libya on Sunday," UN High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Romania, Machiel Salomons, told AFP.
"She was accompanied by UNHCR s [...]
TRIPOLI (AFP) - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi vowed on state television Tuesday that he would never surrender as NATO-led warplanes pounded Tripoli with one of the heaviest bombardments of the air war so far.
NATO-led warplanes carried out some 60 strikes on Tripoli killing 31 people, Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said.
In the audio message, his first intervention since [...]
TRIPOLI (AFP) - NATO warplanes battered Moamer Kadhafi's command network in Tripoli, it said Monday ahead of a visit to Libya by an envoy from Russia, which has raised concerns about the military campaign.
Five powerful blasts rocked Tripoli late Sunday after three waves of explosions during the day, as warplanes overflew the city which has been the target of intense NATO raids for the past two [...]
GENEVA (AFP) - Switzerland on Monday approved legal action against the Libyan regime for holding two Swiss citizens hostage, the justice ministry said.
"The Federal Council authorises the opening of a penal procedure against the Libyan regime... over hostage-taking and extortion and blackmail in the case of the two Swiss citizens Rachid Hamdani and Max Goeldi," the ministry said in [...]
TRIPOLI (AFP) - NATO-led warplanes struck offices of the Libyan state broadcaster in the capital Tripoli on Monday, an information ministry official said.
An AFP correspondent also saw further damage to offices of Libya's equivalent of parliament, the General People's Congress, which had already been largely destroyed in a strike three weeks ago.
The two buildings lie some two kilo [...]
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) - NATO pounded Tripoli on Sunday hours after Britain's top diplomat met rebel chiefs in Libya and Russia voiced concerns the alliance's military operation is sliding towards a land campaign.
Warplanes launched intensive air raids on the Libyan capital and its eastern suburbs, where several explosions were heard, as NATO kept up its pressure on strongman Moamer [...]
LONDON (AFP) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague arrived in the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Saturday for talks with the opposition's leadership, the Foreign Office said.
Hague, who is accompanied by international development minister Andrew Mitchell, will meet with Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the chief of the rebel National Transitional Council, it said in a statement from [...]
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) - British Foreign Minister William Hague flew to Benghazi on Saturday for talks with rebels fighting to oust Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi after NATO deployed attack choppers for the first time.
Russia's top diplomat, meanwhile, warned that the NATO military operation in Libya was "sliding towards" a land campaign, a prospect he said Moscow viewed as "deplorable [...]
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) - China acknowledged Friday for the first time contact with Libya's rebels, as US lawmakers passed a resolution forcing President Barack Obama to explain his decision to intervene in Libya.
The United States and the United Nations, meanwhile, slammed Qatar's deportation of a Libyan woman who alleged she had been raped by soldiers loyal to Libyan strongman Moame [...]
TRIPOLI (AFP) - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi is increasingly isolated, US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen said on Thursday, as Russia announced that it will send envoys to Tripoli and Benghazi to mediate the conflict.
The United Nations, meanwhile, has denounced war crimes committed both by Kadhafi's forces and the rebels vying to oust the Libyan strongman.
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