Search results for ‘Lindsey Hilsum’
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Tension on the streets of Tripoli
As post-liberation euphoria on the streets of Tripoli starts to fade, residents of the Libyan capital are losing patience with their rustic ‘liberators’. International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports.
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'Good news! Mutassim Gaddafi has been captured!'
Blogging from Tripoli, Lindsey Hilsum recounts how, on returning to her hotel last night, she was informed by the receptionist that Mutassim Gaddafi, one of Muammar Gaddafi’s most powerful sons, had been captured.
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Return to Tripoli – it's good to be back
Normal life is returning to Tripoli, blogs Lindsey Hilsum, back in Libya to research a book on recent events in the country. Petrol is now plentiful and the population’s attention has turned to the national team’s performance in football’s African Nations Cup.
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Living in a warzone
Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the challenges of life in Tripoli’s war zone in the “most physically demanding trip” she has endured in a long time.
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Where were the women in Libya's revolution?
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum asks ‘where were the women’ during Libya’s revolution?
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Abu Salim, the 'spark' of Libya's revolution
The Abu Salim massacre of 1996, when 1200 prisoners were gunned down, may have been the spark that led to the Libyan revolution, as International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has been hearing.
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Defiant Gaddafi rallies supporters as rebels target hometown
Colonel Gaddafi calls on his supporters to march on Tripoli and “purify” the capital of Libya’s rebels, as International Editor Lindsey Hilsum meets neighbourhood groups patrolling the streets.
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Inside Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from inside Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound, breached by rebel fighters.
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Libyan rebels take control of Gaddafi compound
Hundreds of rebel fighters are dancing in celebration in Colonel Gaddafi’s heavily fortified Bab al-Aziziya compound after heavy gun battles during the day, as Lindsey Hilsum reports from Tripoli.
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Where is Gaddafi? 'Gone with the wind'
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from Tripoli, where she says Libyans are “wild with happiness” six months after the revolution began.
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Civilians flee before the battle for Tripoli starts
Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the exodus of civilians doing everything they can to flee Tripoli before war arrives.
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‘Zawiyah – the most destroyed town I’ve seen’
Lindsey Hilsum reports on the devastation visited upon the coastal town of Zawiyah as rebels press on to Tripoli.
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Back in Gheryan as it falls to rebel hands
Lindsey Hilsum has travelled to the garrison town of Gheryan south of the capital Tripoli, now taken by rebels.
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Libyan rebels take Gharyan on their advance towards Tripoli
The Libyan capital is now cut off to the west at Zawiyah and to the south at the garrison town of Gharyan, from where our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports.
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The Dalai Lama, a hard act to follow
It’s not easy picking up the reins from a living saint. As he took the oath of office the new political leader of Tibetans in exile, Lobsang Sangay, looked nervous. Who can blame him, blogs Lindsey Hilsum.