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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 Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Libya jets hit rebel town, crimes against humanity probed AFP - 9 minutes ago Send IM Story Print BREGA, Libya (AFP) - – Aircraft struck the rebel town of Brega on Thursday as international prosecutors launched a probe into crimes against humanity in Libya, while the West scrambled to evacuate refugees. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned Libya is verging on civil war while Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proposed international mediation to quell the violence raging in the North African nation. And a day after Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi warned the West to stay out of the fray, the Dutch defence ministry said three of its marines helping to evacuate civilians had been captured by government soldiers. The rag-tag army of rebels holding the eastern strategic town of Brega manned machine-guns on pick-up trucks Thursday after two bombs fell near the local oil refinery. Scene: Rebels await the return of a phantom enemy The attack sparked fears of a new bid by troops loyal to Kadhafi's regime to recapture the key port, 200 kilometres (125 miles) southwest of the main eastern city of Benghazi. They had launched an attack on Brega at dawn on Wednesday in their first incursion into the rebel-held east of the country since the Libyan uprising began on February 15. Despite airstrikes throughout the day, the rebels managed to push the regime's forces out of the town, sparking celebrations -- which were themselves targeted by Kadhafi's fighter jets. Rumours flew Thursday of government troops regrouping and being joined by hundreds of mercenaries from Africa, but by nightfall there was no sign of a new offensive. Focus: Fear and hunger as thousands of Africans hide 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 said in The Hague that Kadhafi and key aides will be probed over allegations they committed crimes against humanity in trying to crush the uprising. "We have identified some individuals with de facto or formal authority, who have authority over the security forces," Luis Moreno-Ocampo told journalists. "They are Moamer Kadhafi, his inner circle, including some of his sons." The Libyan leader had warned on Wednesday that "thousands" would die if the West launched military action, following calls by some opposition figures for Western airstrikes against the regime. Scene: West Libya's rebel tribes strive for freedom But NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Brussels on Thursday that the alliance has no intention of intervening in Libya although it is planning for "all eventualities." US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that any military action by the West would be "controversial" in the Arab world and that the Libyan opposition wanted to be seen to be dislodging Kadhafi's forces on their own. China said Libya's territorial integrity must be respected and that the UN Security Council must decide future international moves. A major international operation was meanwhile under way Thursday to evacuate from Tunisia thousands of people, most of them Egyptians, stranded at the border with Libya after fleeing the bloodshed. Focus: Evacuations from Tunisia-Libya border under way Refugees have been bussed to the Djerba airport, where French transport planes equipped with medical teams have arrived to begin airlift operations, officials said. Others were being taken to the port of Zarzis from where they will be shipped home, according to an AFP reporter at the scene. More than 100,000 people have already left Libya to escape the violence which has left at least 1,000 dead, according to conservative UN estimates. A Libyan rights group has put the death toll at the hands of pro-Kadhafi forces as high as 6,000. Rage, fear and pain at Ajdabiya hospital Dutch defence ministry spokesman Otte Beeksma told AFP the three marines were seized by Kadhafi loyalists in Sirte, between Benghazi and Tripoli, on Sunday as they were helping evacuate two civilians by helicopter. He said negotiations were in train for their release. Medvedev, in one of the starkest warnings yet by a world leader over the situation in Libya, said the country was in "complete disorganisation." "Libya was and is on the verge of civil war, and our main task was to save our people there," he told Russia's Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu, according to state news agency ITAR-TASS. Focus: Kadhafi and sons determined to survive A Venezuelan minister said Libya and the Arab League are considering a mediation proposal by Chavez to find a peaceful end to the crisis. "We can confirm Libya's interest in accepting this proposal, as well as the Arab League's" interest, Information Minister Andres Izarra told AFP. World oil prices slid in nervous trading as investors digested Venezuela's proposal, with Brent North Sea crude for delivery in April diving $1.60 to $114.75 per barrel. New York's light sweet crude, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), shed 44 cents to $101.79. Libyan National Oil Corporation head Shukri Ghanem told AFP production -- estimated at some 1.6 million barrels per day -- had been "halved" because the unrest had caused foreign workers, including key technicians, to flee. Focus: Kadhafi counts on planes, militias to survive Anger at authoritarian Arab regimes in the Middle East and North Africa continued to rage from Algeria to Yemen and has spread to the previously unaffected Gulf states of Kuwait and Oman, unnerving financial markets. In Cairo, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigned unexpectedly Thursday, sparking celebrations from protesters who demand a purge of the remnants of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime. In Sanaa, it was announced that Yemeni opposition groups and religious leaders had offered embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh plans for a smooth exit from power by the end of 2011. In Saudi Arabia, cyber activists called for a "Day of Anger" on Friday in the eastern Shiite-majority region, following the arrest of a Shiite cleric. 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