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1945 GMT: The world can pump enough extra oil and has enough stashed in reserve to limit price shocks from sustained turmoil in the Middle East, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday."There is considerable spare oil production capacity globally, and we and other major economies possess substantial strategic reserves of oil," Geithner told Congress."If necessary, those reserves could be mobilized to help mitigate the effect of a severe, sustained supply disruption."
1942 GMT: Rebel leaders in Benghazi said it's "too late" for a negotiated peace with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, declaring that at this point "too much blood has been spilled.""We have a very clear statement. It's too late. Too much blood has been spilled," Mustafa Gheriani, a spokesman for the opposition's self-declared national council set up in the eastern city of Benghazi, told AFP.He made the declaration in response to an offer by Venezuela President Hugo Chavez to mediate in the dispute."We will never negotiate with anybody on the blood of our people. The only way we can negotiate with Chavez is if Kadhafi goes to Venezuela (for good)," Gheriani said."Then we'll ask him to have Kadhafi back in Libya to be prosecuted by our justice."
1934 GMT: Italy expressed skepticism Thursday that the international community would accept Venezuela as a mediator in the escalating crisis in Libya."It appears that the substance of this proposal is for (Moamer) Kadhafi to stay on... I think it would be very difficult for the international community to accept it," Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said in an interview with Italian channel Rai 3.
1930 GMT: Djibouti's interior ministry has asked the opposition to postpone a demonstration scheduled for Friday, after unprecedented protests last month demanding regime change in the tiny Horn of Africa country left at least two people dead.The rare protests were organised amid mounting opposition to the 63-year-old president, Ismael Omar Guelleh, whose bid to clinch a third six-year term in office when presidential elections are held next month has triggered an outcry among opposition parties.The tiny Horn of Africa country is but one of several regimes riled by tumult in the Middle East and northern Africa.
1923 GMT: Tunisia's interim President Foued Mebazaa announces that a constituent assembly charged with developing a new post-revolt constitution will be elected on July 24.
1920 GMT: Egypt's stock exchange, which suspended trading a month ago when nationwide anti-regime protests erupted, will remain closed until further notice, officials in Cairo announced."Due to the latest developments in Egypt, (Egypt's stock exchange) EGX decided to suspend trading next Sunday, 6th of March," the bourse said in a statement. The stock exchange, which closed on January 27, was due to re-open Sunday."Resuming of trading will be decided following the discussions with Egypt's new prime minister," it added.Egypt's ruling military council earlier Thursday named Essam Sharaf prime minister, after the resignation of Ahmed Shafiq who was heading a caretaker government.
1917 GMT: "History is moving against Colonel Khadafi," US President Barack Obama declared Thursday, saying once again that the Libyan strongman must go."Let me just be very unambiguous about this. Colonel Kadhafi needs to step down from power and leave. That is good for his country. It is good for his people. It's the right thing to do," Obama said at a press conference in Washington."Those around him have to understand that violence that they perpetrate against innocent civilians will be monitored and they will be held accountable."The US leader said he has asked US military and diplomatic officials to furnish him with a "full range of options" of what Washington's options are in addressing the Libya standoff.
1912 GMT: US President Barack Obama is weighing a "full range of options" he told reporters Thursday."In addition to the non-military actions that we've taken, I want to make sure that those full range of options are available to me," he said.Asked whether that included the imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya, he said, "That is one of the options that we would be looking at."Obama said the priority now was to provide humanitarian assistance as thousands of people flee the unrest in Libya. And he said Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi was encouraging violence against unarmed citizens."I don't want us hamstrung. I want us to be making our decisions based on what's going to be best for the Libyan people, in consultation with the international community," he said, adding that Washington is consulting closely with America's NATO partners.
1904 GMT: There were dire warnings of a humanitarian crisis and the risk of epidemic, as thousands continue to pour across the border into Tunisia to escape Libya. Officials estimate that so far about 90,000 have streamed over the border, and the refugees keep coming."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," Djerba airport director Zouher Badreddine told AFP.Refugees started arriving after protests started against Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on February 15, unleashing a violent crackdown. About 20,000 were in and around Tunisia's main border at Ras Jedir by late Wednesday, said Colonel Malik Mihoub from Tunisian civil security.Most of the thousands stuck at the border were male foreign migrant workers, with 85 percent originating from Egypt, while the others were from as far afield as Bangladesh, China and Vietnam, the UN has said.
1856 GMT: A major European operation was under way to airlift out of Tunisia thousands of people, most of them Egyptian workers, stranded at the border after fleeing the bloodshed in Libya.The first French plane involved in the mass evacuation took off from the Tunisia's Djerba airport mid-afternoon, carrying 168 Egyptians to Cairo, following airlifts by British crews that took hundreds out overnight, officials said.Among the foreign nationals fleeing the violence in Libya was Ahmadi Bakar, 27, who arrived in Tunisia 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," said Bakar who arrived Tunisia four days ago. "Libyan soldiers took everything from me, my phone and my money," he said
1846 GMT: The International Criminal Court which has launched a probe of crimes against humanity in Libya, has not just President Moamer Kadhafi in its sites, but also the strongman's three sons.They are:-- Seif al-Islam, 38, the second of Kadhafi's eight children and whose name means sword in Islam. He has been considered his father's possible successor, and has appeared on public television several times since the protests erupted on February 15.-- A second son, Khamis, is commander of Libya's 32nd Brigade.-- A third son, Mutassim, Seif's main rival in the Libyan succession, is head of the National Security Council. He is a career soldier and doctor. Suspected of attempting a coup, he was exiled to Egypt but was later pardoned and returned home.
1841 GMT: The Libyan opposition flatly rejects a proposal by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez to help mediate a peace deal with the Moamer Kadhafi government, a rebel spokesman in Benghazi said.
1836 GMT: Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has lost legitimacy and must leave office, US President Barack Obama said Thursday."The United States and the entire world continues to be outraged by the appalling violence against the Libyan people," Obama told a press conference at the White House."Going forward, we will continue to send a clear message: The violence must stop. Moamar Kadhafi has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave."
1832 GMT: President Barack Obama on sending US military aircraft to Libya: "Tens of thousands of people from many different countries are fleeing libya, and we commend the governments of Tunisia and Egypt for their response, even as they go through their own political transitions.I have, therefore, approved the use of US military aircraft to help move Egyptians who have fled to the Tunisian border to get back home to Egypt," the US leader told reporters.
1829 GMT: The United States should make the extradition of the convicted Lockerbie bomber a condition for recognizing any post-Kadhafi government, US senators said Thursday.Lawmakers led by Democratic Senator Robert Menendez told reporters on a conference call that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, now free in Libya, should be sent to the United States to serve out his original prison term."All of us here feel that if we get to the point of dealing with a new Libyan government, then bringing al-Megrahi to justice is a condition of officially recognizing that government," said Menendez.Al-Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of the bombing of Pan AM Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on December 21, 1988 that killed 270 people, most of them Americans.
1826 GMT: President Barack Obama announces that Washington will use military aircraft to help move refugees from Libya
1822 GMT: The Pentagon acknowledged that Libya has used warplanes for bombing raids in its battle with opposition forces, after earlier saying it could not confirm air power had been used."It's very obvious that they have used air and dropped ordnance," Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan told reporters, citing television footage out of LibyaIt was unclear if the bombing attacks targeted rebel forces or civilians, he said.
1817 GMT: The 600 million euro loan to Tunisia from the European Investment Bank aims to aid small and medium enterprises in the country, once officials have been able to "assess the priority needs of Tunisians in the area of economic and social development" bank vice president Philippe de Fontaine Vive tells a press conference in Tunis.
1811 GMT: The World Food Programme says a ship loaded with 1,000 tons of flour bound for Benghazi has to return to port without delivering its cargo because of reports of aerial bombardments."The owners of the ship took the decision. There were concerns about the reports of aerial bombardments," Greg Barrow, a spokesman for the Rome-based UN food aid agency said.
1807 GMT: Poland has suspended diplomatic activity in Tripoli, and says it will evacuate its embassy staff from the Libyan capital, the foreign ministry said in Warsaw,
1806 GMT: Rebels fighting the Kadhafi regime say it appears that the Libyan stongman is shoring up his forces with more hired foreign troops in and around the rebel-held Libyan town of Brega."Today it seems like Kadhafi is reinforcing his forces with mercenaries. Witnesses have seen troops (and Chadian mercenaries) moving towards Raslanuf," said Abdelfattah al-Moghrabi, director of supplies for Brega hospital."We are waiting to see if they attack or make a reinforcing line before Sirte," he said.Several sources said meanwhile that forces loyal to Kadhafi captured at least five people in Brega during their counter-offensive.
1800 GMT: Kadhafi son Seif al-Islam, defending the bombing of Brega harbour, said the port was of critical importance to the Libyan economy.Brega, he said, is the "oil and gas hub of Libya. All of us, we eat, we live because of Brega. Without Brega six million people have no future, because we export all of our oil from there".Those taking over the city were clearly a "militia, they were filming themselves, they came with three tanks and heavy machine guns".He added: "Nobody would allow the militia to control Brega, it's like you're allowing somebody to control Rotterdam harbour in Holland."
1755 GMT: Rebels in the opposition-held city of Benghazi mourned their dead, holding funerals for six of the militia fighting the Kadhafi regime, as well as several others in the town of Ajdabiya, 150 kilometres (94 miles) to the west."Kadhafi get out, Libyans don't want you" and "Kadhafi you're crazy" they shouted.In Benghazi a spokesman at the courthouse, the rebels' nerve centre, who did not want to be named, said, "We have taken a lot of prisoners, as many as 100."An official at a hospital in Benghazi told AFP that rebels captured included three Libyans and two unidentified "Africans," adding that they had been taken to Benghazi for questioning.
1741 GMT: Moamer Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam tells Britain's Sky News television that bombs dropped on the eastern port of Brega were intended simply to "frighten" rebels there, not to kill anyone."First of all. the bombs (are) just to frighten them to go away, not to attack the harbour. Not to kill our people," he said, adding "Brega is not a city. Brega is an oil harbour."
1736 GMT: Canada's foreign minister is proposing a law to freeze the assets of corrupt regimes, closing a loophole that allowed the family of Tunisia's ex-president to hide money in the country's banks.The law, dubbed The Freezing Assets of Corrupt Regimes Act, would give Ottawa "new and more robust tools in our fight against corruption and the misappropriation of state funds by repressive foreign leaders," Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon says.
1729 GMT: A US Senator says Libya's envoy to Washington has declared that opposition forces will reject Venezuela's proposal for a mediated end to deadly violence thereDemocratic Senator Robert Menendez said Ali Aujali -- repudiated by Tripoli since he turned on embattled leader Moamer Kadhafi, but still seen by Washington as Libya's ambassador -- vowed "no negotiations and no concessions."Menendez said after talks with the diplomat that he mentioned "efforts to seek a negotiated solution" to Aujali without specifically citing Chavez's notion, "and his response was 'no negotiations and no concessions.'"
17h21 GMT: The European Investment Bank, the European Union's financial arm, says it will extending more than 600 million euros in additional loans to Tunisia.
1718 GMT: Syrian families fleeing rebel-held Libya for home spoke in Benghazi, Libya of their happiness at escaping the violence, desperately frightened that their adopted nation could spiral into war."No one was buying any merchandise and we fear the situation could get worse and turn into a bigger war," said Abdullah Abras, who imports shoes from Syria to sell in the oil-rich North African state.
He said he left behind 8,000 dinars ($6,517 or 3,500 euros) worth of stock, so keen was he to escape nights of incessant gunfire."I won't come back if the situation stays the same. I'm very happy to be going back as I've been through some terrifying days and nights here," he said.
1712 GMT: AFP is continuing its live report of the uprising sweeping Libya, North Africa and the Middle East. Here is a recap of some of the most important recent developments.
LIBYA: Moamer Kadhafi's regime launches fresh strikes against the rebel-held Libyan town of Brega as it tries to recapture the key oil port.
-- The International Criminal Court says Kadhafi, his sons and key aides will be probed over allegations they have perpetrated crimes against humanity.
-- A major international operation is under way to airlift thousands of refugees, most of whom are Egyptians, out of Tunisian border camps.
-- Libya's oil output has fallen by half since the uprising began, the country's top oil official says.
-- Venezuela makes a proposal being considered by Libya and the Arab League to find a peaceful solution to the crisis in the North African nation.
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