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Saturday 12 March 2011

Libya news

Libya news, all the latest and breaking Libya news.

Latest Libya News

Libya: Gaddafi's jets break bodies but not the rebels' spirit

It started with the boom, boom, boom of decrepit anti-aircraft guns shooting wildly into the open blue sky. Then came the screeching engines of an invisible warplane, hurtling towards the rebel position.

12 Mar 2011

David Cameron needs to be cautious over Libya

Telegraph View: Military force may be necessary against Gaddafi. If so, the Arab states, rather than the West, should provide it.

11 Mar 2011

Libya: Cameron warns 'we cannot stand by'

Angry PM fought to persuade EU to send Gaddafi a clear message.

11 Mar 2011

Libya: 'Ras Lanuf is lost'

It started with the boom, boom, boom of decrepit anti-aircraft guns shooting wildly into the open blue sky. Then came the screeching engines of an invisible warplane, hurtling towards the rebel position.

11 Mar 2011

Libya: Sarkozy confirms UK backing for air strikes

Britain and France favour strikes, Sarkozy tells EU summit.

11 Mar 2011

Libya: Colonel Gaddafi's forces enter Ras Lanuf

Forces loyal to Gaddafi fight for control of oil town.

11 Mar 2011

Cameron and Sarkozy urge EU to be ready for 'all contingencies'

David Cameron, the Prime Minister, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, have written a joint letter to European allies, urging them to be ready for "all possible contingencies" in Libya, including the possible imposition of a no-fly zone to prevent air attacks by dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

11 Mar 2011

Full text of letter sent to EU leaders

This is the text of the letter sent today by David Cameron, the Prime Minister, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, to Herman van Rompuy, the European Council President, and copied to the other 25 EU leaders:

11 Mar 2011

Libya: 'Gaddafi will prevail'

Barack Obama’s intelligence chief says Gaddafi will defeat rebels.

10 Mar 2011

Libya crisis: live

The Telegraph's live coverage of events in Libya, as Col Gaddafi's forces launch a major offensive in the town of Zawiyah.

10 Mar 2011

'Ousting Gaddafi a matter of honour'

Prestige of the international community will be lost if Colonel Gaddafi is allowed to cling to power, former PM warns.

10 Mar 2011

'Loads of Saif Gaddafi's lot live round here in Hampstead'

It is unlikely that Saif Gaddafi will trouble himself with a call to Barnet police about the squatters currently occupying his £10 million property.

10 Mar 2011

What are the legal implications of intervention?

What are the options for military intervention in Libya? Why is this so difficult to agree? Why are there legal problems when has been done before in Iraq or the former Yugoslavia?

10 Mar 2011

Libya: Gaddafi seizes initiative in Ras Lanuf and Zawiyah

Col Muammar Gaddafi scored two major triumphs on Thursday as opposition fighters abandoned an important oil port in the east of the country and his troops swept through Zawiyah, the only town west of Tripoli still in rebel hands before Wednesday night.

10 Mar 2011

Brit school in Libya sets up virtual classrooms

A British school in Libya is resorting to virtual classrooms and web-based social networks after political strife forced it to close and its staff to flee the country.

10 Mar 2011

Libya: Nicolas Sarkozy to urge 'targeted air strikes'

French president wants strike on Gaddafi's key military command HQ as EU and Nato splits emerge.

10 Mar 2011

Saif Gaddafi: Libya will never surrender

Libya is preparing full-scale military action to crush its rebellion and will not surrender even if Western powers intervene in the conflict, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son said in Tripoli.

10 Mar 2011

Libya: Hillary Clinton to meet Libyan rebel leaders

Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, will travel to Egypt and Tunisia next week to meet Libyan rebel leaders and press democratic reforms after rebellions that ousted the two countries' autocratic rulers.

10 Mar 2011

Libya: the battle for Ras Lanuf

Libyan opposition fighters abandoned an important oil port in the east of the country on Thursday after Col Muammar Gaddafi unleashed the full force of his military arsenal to attack rebel positions by land, sea and air.

10 Mar 2011

Humanitarian advantages of no-fly zones not easy to secure

Proponents of a no-fly zone over Libya face strong objections rooted in history, international law and military capabilities.

10 Mar 2011

Gaddafi is about to force Obama's hand

Barack Obama is about to learn a lesson – the US president can't be neutral, writes Anne Applebaum.

10 Mar 2011

Leeds University latest to disclose ties with Gaddafi

The University of Leeds said it had received £800,000 from Col Muammar Gaddafi's regime this year as it became the latest university to disclose ties to the dictatorship

10 Mar 2011

Nato chief: more planning needed for no-fly zones

Nato Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said they planned to move more ships to the Mediterranean in response to the Libyan crisis, but more planning was needed on a possible "no-fly" zone.

10 Mar 2011

No-fly zone won't stop massacre on the ground

The West is waiting on the sidelines in Libya, but that's the least sensible option, argues Ranj Alaaldin.

10 Mar 2011

Oil drops sharply after West reassures on supply

Oil dropped by more than $2 on Thursday afternoon after early rises on fears of further fighting in Libya, after Gaddafi's regime escalated its ferocious military campaign across the country, forcing rebels onto the defensive.

10 Mar 2011

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