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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Top Stories Most Popular Photos Full Coverage Sitemap Libya live report AFP - 1 hour 17 minutes ago Send IM Story Print 1350 GMT: EU to earmark 30 mln euros for Libya refugees: EU commissioner 1344 GMT: Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport's lost income from the situation in Libya "amounted to $4 billion," Sergei Chemezov was quoted as saying by the Interfax and RIA Novosti news agencies. The Arab world is the main export market for Russian arms after traditional partners China and India. Libyan Defence Minister Yunis Jaber went on a major spending spree during a January 2010 visit to Moscow, signing 1.3 billion euros ($1.8 billion) worth of deals including for six Yak-130 military planes. Libya had also been expected to become the first foreign buyer of Russia's new Su-35 fighter and a contract worth $800 million for 12-15 planes was ready for signing, reports have said. 1337 GMT: Cyber activists have created a group on Facebook calling for a "Day of Anger" tomorrow in the eastern Shiite-majority Saudi region, following the arrest of a Shiite cleric. The group of more than 500 members is calling for protests after Friday prayers in Al-Hufuf, in Eastern Province's Al-Ihsaa governorate, to demand the release of Sheikh Tawfiq al-Amer. Amer was arrested after calling for a "constitutional monarchy" in the Sunni-dominated kingdom, according to the Rasid website, which specialises in Shiite Saudi news. The Shiites, who are mainly concentrated in the oil-rich Eastern Province, and make up about 10 percent of the Saudi population as a whole, complain of marginalisation in the kingdom. The Eastern Province has common borders with Shiite-majority Bahrain, where protests, also organised via social networking site Facebook, against the ruling Sunni dynasty have raged since February 14. 1335 GMT: One of those leaving Tunisia is today is Ahmadi Bakar, 27, who arrived in Tunisia four days ago with only a plastic bag having been unable to catch a flight out of Tripoli. "I am happy, I am going to see my family in Egypt," he said. "Libya soldiers took everything from me, my phone and my money." Border officials say about 86,500 people have crossed into Tunisia from Libya since February 20. They include around 38,000 Egyptians. 1332 GMT: A major international operation is under way today to airlift out of Tunisia thousands of people, most of them Egyptians, stranded at the border after fleeing the bloodshed in Libya. Thousands of people have been bussed to the Djerba airport, where French transport planes equipped with medical teams have arrived to begin airlift operations, officials said. Others are being transported to the port of Zarzis from where they will be shipped home, according to an AFP reporter at the scene. "We have 2,000 or 3,000 people who are waiting at the airport but in total there are without doubt 50,000 people, essentially Egyptians, who are waiting in the region to be evacuated," airport director Zouher Badreddine told AFP. About 20,000 refugees were at Tunisia's main border at Ras Jedir and nearby Choucha by yesterday, said Colonel Malik Mihoub, from Tunisian civil security. Thousands more are expected to arrive in coming days. 1327 GMT: More from Libyan oil company head Shukri Ghanem: "None of the oil installations were damaged," he tells AFP, adding: "We continue to produce and export" oil. "Our priority now is providing oil domestically: providing power plants with gas and fuel and crude for refineries so that normal life can continue in Libya." Libya has an oil production of around 1.6 million barrels a day, some 85 percent of which normally goes to Europe, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Experts say eastern Libya -- where the revolt erupted in mid-February -- accounts for about two-thirds of Libya's production. 1326 GMT: Russia is to lose $4 billion in arms exports to Libya due to the imposition of UN sanctions against Moamer Kadhafi's regime, the head of state industrial holding Russian Technologies says. 1321 GMT: The International Organization for Migration says it has started to evacuate migrants trapped in the Libyan port of Benghazi, the country's second largest city. "IOM is today beginning its first evacuations of migrants out of the Libyan port city of Benghazi," said the inter-governmental agency. The first migrants will be taken in small groups by road to the Egyptian border at Salum, "until sea evacuations are organized to Alexandria in Egypt," it added in a statement. About 5,500 migrants have been identified for evacuation so far. Most are from Bangladesh, India or Sudan, but small groups of Syrians, Ghanians and other nationalities are also waiting for a way out of the revolt-hit country, the IOM says. 1317 GMT: Russia to lose $4 bn in arms exports due to Libya situation: official 1311 GMT: AFP's Antoine Lambroschini is on the road between Tripoli and Zawiyah, west of the capital as one of a group of journalists chaperoned by the authorities to see the calm atmosphere across Libya. After passing the checkpoints, he has visited a Zawiyah refinery whose director says it is operating at 80 percent of capacity. Antoine says, however, that only 20 percent of the refinery's chimneys show any signs of being operational. Zawiyah city centre remains under rebel control and routes into the city are blocked by tree trunks across the road. 1307 GMT: Commerzbank analysts are unconvinced that the Venezuelan initiative for an international peacekeeping mission in Libya will do much to restrain oil prices. "It is doubtful that the protesters in Libya will agree to enter negotiations with Kadhafi as the plan of Venezuelan president Chavez suggests," they say in a note. "Yesterday, government troops attacked a major oil terminal in Marsa El Brega. The oil city controlled by the rebels has again been subjected to attacks from the air this morning. "Furthermore, there is still a risk of the unrest spreading to other oil producing countries of the region." 1304 GMT: World oil prices have slipped in European trade as investors digest Venezuela's proposal for an international peacekeeping mission to avoid a brutal civil war in Libya. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in April dipped 63 cents to $115.72 per barrel. New York's light sweet crude for April, known as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), shed 61 cents to $101.61. 1259 GMT: Libyan oil company head Ghanem tells AFP: "Libya's oil production has been halved as foreign workers have left because they don't feel safe" amid the violent anti-regime protests gripping the country." "Libyan workers also have left but most of the foreign workers are technicians, and this has led to a reduction in production." Ghanem, who is also de facto oil minister, refused to provide any figures on current production. 1256 GMT: AFP's reporters in Libya's Berber region report that army officers in Nalut held a solemn ceremony to announce their defection. Nearby, 32 soldiers who were about to shoot at demonstrators, deserted. "A colonel refused to give the firing order and he was arrested. We had a meeting and immediately decided to defend the people. Enough oppression. The situation was becoming unbearable," says Sami, 27, a former soldier. The mountainous region has a long history of rebellion. "The people of this region revolt quickly," says Yussef, a teacher. 1252 GMT: Libyan oil production has "halved" amid the unrest nationwide, the head of the National Oil Corporation, Shukri Ghanem, has told AFP. 1248 GMT: Libyan oil production 'halved', national oil boss tells AFP. 1243 GMT: Here's a recap of events so far today in the uprising sweeping Libya, North Africa and the Middle East: - Government jets have pounded the rebel-held town of Brega sparking fears of a fresh onslaught by loyalist soldiers as a world court announced a crimes against humanity probe in Libya. - The patchwork Libyan opposition controls swathes of eastern and western Libya including Benghazi and some oil installations. Kadhafi remains firmly in control of the capital Tripoli. - The International Criminal Court's prosecutor says Kadhafi and key aides will be probed over allegations they committed crimes against humanity while fending off the uprising. - Evacuations have begun of thousands of people stranded at the Tunisian-Libyan border. - The Dutch defence ministry says three of its marines helping evacuate civilians from Sirte city were captured by Libyan soldiers. - The United States and NATO cooled talk of imposing a no-fly zone over his country. - Kadhafi and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have discussed plans for an international peacekeeping mission to mediate the crisis in Libya, officials in Caracas say. Saber al-Essawi became the fourth senior Iraqi official to step down since demonstrations erupted nationwide a month ago. "I present my resignation and I hope that a new mayor will be chosen to complete the process of reconstruction and development of the capital," he said in a statement. Essawi, who has held his post for five years and is a member of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, a religious Shiite Muslim political party, did not offer any reason for his decision. The resignation comes after 5,000 people took to the streets of central Baghdad's Tahrir Square on Friday to rail against a lack of improvement in their lives, eight years after the US-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein. 1237 GMT: Yemeni protesters' banners read: "Revolution, revolution, until victory, or march towards the palace," referring to the presidential palace. Protest organiser Hashem al-Ibara tells AFP that the demonstrators will begin marching to the palace and intensify their rallies from Saturday. One of the protesters, Jamal Khayran, says Yemen's youths "have nothing to do with the agreements reached in closed rooms." 1235 GMT: In Yemen, protesters have rejected a proposal by opposition leaders and clerics offering President Ali Abdullah Saleh a smooth exit from power this year. Instead, they have staged a new demonstration to demand he stands down immediately. 1232 GMT: In Mali, a small, discreet recruitment office has been set up in a Bamako hotel belonging to Libya where a Libyan diplomat acts as a recruiting agent for Tuareg mercenaries, an AFP journalist witnessed. Security sources say recruitment is also taking place in parts of the Sahel. "Those who are leaving now are tempted by the easy earnings. It is they who we call mercenaries," said Abdou Salam Ag Assalat, president of the Kidal Regional Assembly in north-eastern Mali. "Among these youths there are former Malian and Niger Tuareg rebels who took up arms in Mali in 2006 and 2008," he added. The Tuareg community is composed of some 1.5 million people spread across Algeria, Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali and Niger. Tuareg rebels have fought the authorities in Mali and Niger sporadically since the 1990s. 1228 GMT: ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo tells journalists in The Hague: "We have identified some individuals with de facto or formal authority, who have authority over the security forces" in Libya. "They are Moamer Kadhafi, his inner circle, including some of this sons." Ocampo also listed individuals including the veteran Libyan leader's head of personal security, and the head of the external security forces. 1225 GMT: Kadhafi has recruited some 800 Tuareg separatist fighters from Niger, Mali, Algeria and Burkina Faso to quash a popular uprising against his regime, security sources say. "Eight hundred Tuareg originating from Mali, Algeria and Burkina Faso have been recruited by Libya to fight on Kadhafi's side," a Malian security source told AFP. 1219 GMT: The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says he will investigate Kadhafi and key aides for suspected crimes against humanity against civilians. 1209 GMT: Dozens of Saudi extremists descended on the Riyadh International Book Fair late yesterday denouncing the sale of books "contrary to Islam," witnesses say. Turki al-Shalil, a spokesman for the powerful Saudi religious police, told reporters that his men were not involved in the incident. According to one witness, dozens of bearded young men entered the venue in the capital as the Saudi information minister, Abdel Aziz Khoja, was touring the fair on the first day it was open to the public. They asked Khoja "how he could allow such a fair," and said that certain books on display were the work "of infidels who would go to hell," the witness said. Another witness said that the men went around the fair harassing women, a number of whom then departed, and also prevented a female television presenter from doing her job. 1206 GMT: Security forces in Jado quickly defected from the Kadhafi regime and sided with the people, according to Dushid, a 47-year old merchant, who withheld his last name citing security concerns. "Here the revolution was waged with stones. There were demonstrations, cars were set on fire, the symbols of the 'Green Book' were destroyed and security forces immediately withdrew," he said, referring to Kadhafi's political treatise. "Policemen and soldiers are people who form part of our neighbourhoods. There are family ties so they joined the revolution," he says.. 1159 GMT: AFP's Mehdi Lebouachera and Deborah Pasmantier have filed a report from Jado in western Libya on the role of Libya's Berber people in the uprising: "Rebels at heart but short on means, Libya's Berber tribes quickly joined the uprising against Moamer Kadhafi and seized control of the mountainous west in an effort to secure their freedom." The uprising launched in eastern Benghazi on February 15 spread fast to the western mountains, or Jebel Gharbi, where within days villages fell like dominos to the opposition movement challenging Kadhafi's regime. The region has its own hero, a young 'martyr' shot dead the second day of the revolt in Rujdan. But here, unlike in the east or north where bloodshed has filled the morgues, combats and reprisal crackdowns have been rare, Mehdi and Deborah report. 1151 GMT: The evacuation of thousands of people stranded at the Tunisian-Libyan border started today with the transport of hundreds of Egyptians by bus to an airport and port. Long queues are lined up along the road beside the Choucha camp, where the Tunisian army had taken in some 15,000 people, seven kilometres (four miles) from the Ras Jedir border post. "We're going to try to keep a balance by moving on 5,000 to 6,000 people a day and taking in 5,000 to 6,000 new refugees a day," camp commander and army doctor Colonel Mohammed Essoussi tells AFP. 1142 GMT: More details of this morning's air raid on the Libyan city of Brega: Abdulrahman, one of 10 fighters guarding the entrance to Brega's refinery complex, tells AFP: "I was here with my people, tightening security around the refinery, then we heard the sound of planes. "It was one plane that flew over three times. I think it was a Sukhoi. The third time, it dropped bombs," he says. An AFP reporter saw two craters punched out of empty land close to the refinery compound. 1141 GMT: Evacuation of thousands stranded at Tunisia-Libya border under way: AFP 1136 GMT: More from the UNHCR on the refugee situation: Between 8,000 and 10,000 people crossed into Tunisia yesterday, Adrian Edwards, UNHCR spokesman tells AFP, noting that most of those new arrivals are Bangladeshis. The overwhelming majority of those who arrived in Tunisia over previous days are Egyptians, many who worked in the construction industry in Libya. "The camp we've established inside Tunisia, we're trying to expand the number of places there. We had 10,000, next step is to get it to 20,000," Edwards says, referring to the capacity of the temporary camp. 1125 GMT: Jaber, a volunteer sitting in a pickup truck with three bulletholes in the windshield, tells AFP's Samer al-Atrush he has been on a reconnaissance mission between Brega and Ajdabiya where "everything was fine". He is now headed out to the west. 1122 GMT: Samer says that at the oil refinery in Brega there are three pickup trucks mounted with machineguns parked on coastal highway entrance to the compound. Ten volunteers are on guard with machineguns at the entrance. An engineer who came from Benghazi, tells Samer: "I've been only trained for 15 minutes on how to assemble and disassemble the machinegun. We removed the anti-aircraft battery from inside the compound so that they aren't targeted by the mercenaries. we moved it down the road." "It's very important to protect brega because if they occupy this place they'll go forward to Ajdabiya and Ajdabiya is a critical point for them because it connects the east to the west and the south. 1120 GMT: AFP's Samer al-Atrush has filed from Brega, where a battle is expected today between pro and anti Kadhafi forces. "In Brega there are reports of pro-Kadhafi troop movements from the south and from the west. People aren't sure when they'll arrive. They are braced for battle," Samer says. 1115 GMT: Germany will send three ships to evacuate some 4,000 migrants in Tunisia to Egypt, after they fled there to escape the violence in Libya, Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced. "The German government has decided to bring migrants from Tunisia to Egypt," Westerwelle told reporters after a meeting with his Slovak counterpart. "The pictures coming out of Tunisia are overwhelming," he said. "Most of the migrants are Egyptian," adding that the German navy warships were on their way. "I'm working on the assumption that already tomorrow the first operation will begin," Westerwelle said, adding the evacuation is part of a sweeping United Nations mission. 1106 GMT: The Philippines' main Muslim rebel group, the 12,000 strong the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, says the uprising against Kadhafi showed him to be a power-hungry failure, although it thanked him for helping to arm its men. "He vowed to put in place a socialist order in this huge country... however, as the current upheaval shows, the power is still in the hands of the elite led by Khadafi himself," MILF says in a statement on its website. However, MILF praises Kadhafi for giving it crucial diplomatic and military support when it began its armed campaign to set up a separate Islamic state in the southern Philippines in the 1970s. "He was the first Muslim leader who boldly declared that he is helping the Moros (Filipino Muslims) in their resistance against... the Manila government," the statement says, adding he gave food, money and supplies. "He also provided the money for the purchase of Belgian firearms and ammunition supplied (to the Muslim rebels)... in 1972." 1103 GMT: The UNHCR says some people fleeing Libya are Somalis and Eritreans who have no safe home to return to. The humantarian organisation is asking other countries to take them in. 1059 GMT: A spokesman at the courthouse in Benghazi tells AFP: "Today it seems like Kadhafi is reinforcing his forces with mercenaries. Witnesses have seen troops moving towards Raslanuf (about 100 km west of Brega). (They are) Chadians. We are waiting to see if they attack or make a reinforcing line before Sirte." 1055 GMT: AFP journalist Antoine Lambroschini has just left Tripoli heading west: "Libyan forces have set up checkpoints along the road into the city from the west," he says.. "Uniformed men with kalashnikovs are thoroughly checking all vehicles entering Tripoli. These checkpoints are alongside the road for several kilometres. "Tanks have also been deployed along the road, with their gun barrels pointing west," Antoine says. 1052 GMT : The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says it has begun a massive humanitarian evacuation of people who fled Libya to Tunisia. "Over 50 flights today!" it says on Twitter. 1049 GMT: European Union foreign ministers are being summoned to an extraordinary meeting on Libya in Brussels on March 10, a spokeswoman for the EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says. The meeting will be "a working lunch," said spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic. The informal meeting will "assess ongoing developments in Libya and the wider region" and prepare for an extraordinary EU summit called for the next day, March 11, a statement said. 1042 GMT: Spain will send a plane to Tunisia today to ferry aid and help airlift home thousands of Egyptians fleeing unrest in Libya, the foreign ministry announced. 1039 GMT: Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei, who headed the Vienna-based UN International Atomic Energy Agency from 1997 to 2009 and returned to Egypt join the protests, welcomed Ahmed Shafiq's resignation as prime minister. On Twitter, he said: "We are on the right track, I express my sincere appreciation to the Supreme Council of Armed Forces who have accepted the demand of the people." 1037 GMT: New Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf was transport minister from 2002 to 2005. He was sacked over differences with then-premier Ahmad Nazif. Nazif was himself sacked four days after the start of the anti-Mubarak protests. Sharaf is popular with the youths who launched the revolt against Mubarak, having taken part in the huge demonstrations in Tahrir Square in central Cairo. 1035 GMT: A suicide bomber has blown himself up inside a bank in the northwestern Iraqi city of Haditha today, killing nine people including three policemen, the town's mayor says. Eight other people, all civilians, were wounded in the midday blast at a branch of the state-owned Al-Rafidain bank in Haditha, 210 kilometres (130 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Mayor Bassim Naji said. The blast in Haditha was the first major attack in the town since October 5, 2009, when a suicide bomber killed five people at a funeral. And on August 2 of that year, a car bomb in the town killed four women and three children. 1033 GMT: Germany to evacuate 4,000 migrants from Tunisia to Egypt: minister 1027 GMT: The ICC's Moreno-Ocampo is scheduled to name the Libyan suspects at a news conference in The Hague later today. The prosecutor told El Pais there appears to be tension between the army and Kadhafi. "Those who are acting are organised militia and the security and intelligence services, to whom we want to send a clear message: the chiefs will have to answer for the acts of those under their command," he warned. 1021 GMT: Nine killed in suicide attack at Iraq bank: town mayor 1020 GMT: Extraordinary EU foreign ministers' meeting on Libya March 10: official 1017 GMT: The resignation of Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, follows calls by protesters for a replacement of the current government, which still includes several ministers from Hosni Mubarak's toppled regime. The Supreme Council of Military Forces has previously ordered the government to run the country's affairs for six months "or until the end of parliamentary and presidential elections" and is also examining constitutional reforms. Shafiq had been expected to stay in office at least until the elections. 1013 GMT: Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo tells El Pais the International Criminal Court will probe up to 15 Libyan leaders over the machine-gunning and bombing of civilians. "We have a pretty clear idea of the formal and informal command structure in Libya. In Libya there seem to be machine-gunnings or bombings of civilians in public squares," he told the newspaper in a telephone interview from The Hague. "These are massive attacks on the civilian population. These are very serious acts, there are hundreds or thousands dead." 1009 GMT: The Austrian foreign ministry has asked the central bank to launch an inquiry into a henchman of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi living in Austria, media reports say. Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger has asked the bank to look into freezing the assets in Austria of Mustafa Zarti, who "might make them available to other representatives of the Libyan regime," a ministry spokesman said. Zarti, vice-chairman of the Libyan Investment Authority, looked after Kadhafi's assets in Austria and left Tripoli to take refuge in Vienna on February 21, according to today's edition of conservative daily Die Presse and the weekly News. 1005 GMT: Another Chinese firm has suspended operations in Libya. State-run Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd. (MCC) says it has halted multi-million-dollar projects in Libya. One contract is with the Libyan government to build 5,000 homes and auxiliary facilities, while another is a civil engineering project related to a cement factory production line. With the projects only partially complete, the remaining value of the contracts is around 5.13 billion yuan ($781 million), or about two percent of MCC's total outstanding contracts as of the end of 2010, the company say in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange. 1003 GMT: Kadhafi and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have discussed plans for an international peacekeeping mission to mediate the crisis in Libya, an official in Caracas says. "We do confirm that Comandante Chavez had a conversation with Kadhafi yesterday (Tuesday) on a Peace Commission for Libya proposal," Communications Minister Andres Izarra tweeted, without confirming how the two leaders communicated. 1000 GMT: The conflict in Libya, responsible for around 2.3 percent of global crude oil output before the crisis, and the uncertainty around the Middle East has sent oil prices soaring over $100 per barrel in recent days. "Persistent uncertainty in the region continues to support fears of contagion," Barclays Capital say in a note today. 0955 GMT: Oil prices are rising still further. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for April delivery, rose 33 cents to $102.56 and Brent North Sea crude for April was up 30 cents at $116.65 in Asian afternoon trade. 0953 GMT: It is not yet clear if the Yemen plan has been sent to President Saleh, whose three decades of autocratic rule has been rocked by a wave of protests in which at least 19 people have been killed, according to an AFP toll based on reports and witnesses. 0949 GMT: Egypt's ruling military council has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, the council says in a statement today. He will be replaced by Essam Sharaf, a former minister, says the council, which has been in charge of the country since president Hosni Mubarak resigned on February 11 after nationwide protests. "The Supreme Council of Military Forces announces that it has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq," the statement says, without elaborating on the reasons for the move. 0947 GMT: In Yemen, opposition groups and religious leaders have offered embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh plans for a smooth exit from power by the end of 2011, an opposition spokesman says. The proposed accord calls for a "peaceful transition of power" from Saleh, insists anti-regime demonstrations that broke out two weeks ago will go on, and demands a probe be launched into a deadly crackdown on protesters. "We've agreed on a settlement proposal including a roadmap for the president's departure before the end of this year," opposition parliamentary spokesman Mohammed al-Sabri says. 0945 GMT: NATO has no intention of intervening in Libya but is planning for "all eventualities", alliance chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen announces. 0944 GMT: The International Criminal Court will probe 10-15 Libyan leaders for crimes against humanity over attacks against civilians during the popular uprising, prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo says in an interview published in Spain's El Pais newspaper today. 0943 GMT: NATO: no intent to intervene in Libya but planning for 'all eventualities' 0940 GMT: In the Libyan town of Ajdabiya this morning an AFP correspondent met a group of rebels as they were readying an anti-aircraft battery, loading it with ammunition. "We are ready and we're happy to support," said Driss Abheh AdulWahad as he supervised the loading of shells into the guns. He says 12 rebels died yesterday in fighting in the Ajdabiya area, 70 kilometres east of Brega. 0937 GMT: Dutch daily De Telegraaf says three marines were captured by armed Kadhafi loyalists while helping with the evacuation from Sirte in northern Libya of two unnamed civilians, one Dutch and another European, in a helicopter. A Dutch navy officer has confirmed the report to AFP. 0934 GMT: A Dutch military official says three Dutch soldiers were taken prisoner at the weekend by armed men during an operation to evacuate civilians from LIbya. 0933 GMT: Egypt PM Ahmed Shafiq resigns: military council 0931 GMT: Fattah al-Moghrabi, director of supplies for Brega hospital, tells AFP: "Around two hours ago, warplanes dropped a bomb in the area between the oil company and the residential area. As far as I know, there was no casualties." Moghrabi said 12 people were killed in Brega on Wednesday, including nine rebels and three pro-Moamer Kadhafi fighters. "Of these three, one had an ID from Niger and two others were black Africans without IDs," he says. 0927 GMT: International Criminal Court to probe 10-15 Libyan leaders over rights crimes: prosecutor 0923 GMT: A fresh air strike has targeted the rebel-held Libyan town of Brega, residents say. Yesterday clashes between rebels and pro-regime fighters killed at least 12 people in Brega. Follow AFP's live report for a minute-by-minute update of news as it happens in Libya, North Africa and the Middle East. We'll bring you events as they develop after Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi warned "thousands" will die if the West launches a military intervention in Libya . 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Manchester City, Arsenal advance to FA Cup quarters
Afghans, Western backers in contact with Taliban: Karzai |
Top U.S. officials cautious on Libya no-fly zone
Two US airmen shot dead at German airport
Q+A
Bangladesh Nobel winner begins legal fight over removal |
Doubts surround Gaddafi's chemical weapons arsenal
Two US airmen shot dead at German airport
Pakistan media warns of growing chaos as minister slain
US growth 'modest to moderate': Fed
U.S. court allows military funeral anti-gay protests
Special report
Pakistan again delays trial of accused CIA shooter
South Korea says 4 North Koreans defect |
New Zealand civil defence abandons search for quake survivors
New Zealand civil defense abandons search for quake survivors |
Ivory Coast fighting spreads to southern Abidjan |
Malaysia lukewarm on Australia asylum centre plan
Morocco frees jailed senior air force officer-lawyer |
Thousands doing all they can to flee Libya
Diane Lane to play Superman's hot mom
Journalist attacked in eastern Indonesia
Police: 40 die in road crashes in Indian mountains
Nepal's ex-rebels agree to join new government
Seoul shares rebound on U.S. data, bargain-hunting
China warns int'l media not to cover protest calls
S.Korea T-bond futures sink on rate hike outlook
Pakistan
Asian models conquer world's catwalks and billboards
NZ civil defence abandons search for quake survivors
US-ENTERTAINMENT Summary
Seoul shares rebound as foreign buying returns
Apple's Jobs puts on lively iPad 2 show |
Justin Bieber apologizes for middle-finger salute
"Blade Runner" reboot in the works
NZ 2019 govt bonds yield 5.43 pct at tender
Seoul shares open up; Hyundai Motor, LG Elec rise
Actor Mickey Rooney tells Congress of abuse
U.S. files 22 new charges against WikiLeaks soldier |
Berkshire Hathaway enters India insurance market
Diane Lane to play Superman's hot mom
SKorea's reserves hit second straight record high
Anthony Doerr wins Story Prize for short literature
Peregrine to take flight as Japan's newest train |
Judge bars Charlie Sheen from kids, ex-wife
Man who chomped on rival's ears after Facebook spat sentenced to prison
Keith Richard's daughter arrested for graffiti, drugs
Pizzeria owner in mice-planting case to seek psychiatric test
Galliano faces trial, Dior keeps the show going
Antique dealer sentenced for trafficking narwhal tusks
Rutgers University latest school to offer co-ed rooming
Former Attorney General claims immunity in lawsuit by Arab man
Miley Cyrus goes "So Undercover" in October
Local leaders, school officials react to WI governor's budget address
Christina Hendricks is Vivienne Westwood's new muse for jewelry collection
Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean to perform at ACM Awards
FL lawmakers sue governor for rejecting high-speep rail money
Justin Bieber apologizes for middle-finger salute |
Actor Mickey Rooney tells Congress of abuse |
Anthony Doerr wins Story Prize for short literature |
Blade Runner reboot in the works |
Diane Lane to play Superman's hot mom |
Dine-and-dash accusation against actor Gary Collins dismissed |
Chechen rebel urges 'total war' with Russia
'Cyberwar' talk invades world's top high-tech fair
Libya live report
No evidence yet of spying at Renault: French police
Santander, BlackRock 'eye' Citigroup unit
Britain clears way for News Corp/BSkyB deal
Egypt's prime minister quits after calls for purge |
WikiLeaks' Assange appeals against UK extradition |
Frankfurt attack may be linked to radical Islamism |
WikiLeaks' Assange appeals extradition
China to unveil defense budget to nervous region |
Microfinance guru challenges dismissal from bank
Yemen to respond on reforms, activists skeptical |
Bahrain opposition drops pre-conditions for talks |
WikiLeaks: How the Cola war was won in Libya |
Kyrgyz vote on US base postponed
Race for championship wide open in Korea's soccer league
Suicides by jobless young Japanese soar
South says 4 North Koreans defect
Australia wanted to curb China resource investment
Approval for Bob Dylan China concerts pending
Malaysia's Proton signs tech deal with Nissan
Depp on Jolie: She's a 'shockingly great mother'
Twitter's Stone: no IPO or funding talks |
Beyonce says she donated Gaddafi performance fee |
Galliano faces trial, Dior keeps the show going |
Greece at new risk of being pushed off euro
Bodies of missing Tenn. mom, Jo Ann Bain, and daughter found
Female Breasts Are Bigger Than Ever
AMD Trinity Accelerated Processing Units Now in Volume Production
The Avengers (2012 film), made the second biggest opening- and single-day gross of all-time
AMD to Start Production of piledriver
Ivy Bridge Quad-Core, Four-Thread Desktop CPUs
Islamists Protest Lady Gaga's Concert in Indonesia
Japan Successfully Broadcasts an 8K Signal Over the Air
ECB boosts loans to 1 trillion Euro to stop credit crunch
Egypt : Mohammed Morsi won with 52 percent
What do you call 100,000 Frenchmen with their hands up
AMD Launches AMD Embedded R-Series APU Platform
Fed Should not Ignore Emerging Market Crisis
Fed casts shadow over India, emerging markets
Why are Chinese tourists so rude? A few insights

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