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Eman al-Obeidi forced to return to Libya
The Libyan woman who grabbed the world’s attention after accusing Gaddafi’s forces of raping her is forcibly returned to Benghazi. She had escaped to Qatar and was seeking asylum to a third country.
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Cameron agrees to send Apaches to Libya
Britain steps up its role in Libya by agreeing to deploy four attack helicopters amid claims that the Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi is increasingly paranoid and “on the run”.
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Eman al-Obeidi's life-saving message
There was a sense of completion, of the sort journalists rarely get while reporting a story, in meeting Eman al-Obeidi in Qatar. Here she was, free at last from the fear that had stalked her for more than six weeks. She looked composed, sitting there in her blue jeans and hejab. She wore make-up. And she was smiling.
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Libya: Indicting the Colonel
Will the arrest warrants issued for Colonel Gaddafi, his son Seif and brother-in-law Abdullah Sanussi by the International Criminal Court bring justice, or hinder the search for peace? Lindsey Hilsum reports.
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Libya: Gaddafi forces ‘bomb oil storage tanks in Misrata’
Rebels in Libya say Colonel Gaddafi’s planes have bombed oil storage tanks in Misrata. But Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson says they may be not be accurate reports.
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Allies to fund Libyan rebels with cash lifeline
Rebels are given a financial lifeline as allies seek to unlock Libya’s assets. A lawyer tells Channel 4 News the allies are now aggressively targeting Gaddafi while in Misrata the struggle continues.
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Misrata's need for the Red Star One
At the dockside jubilant aid workers disembarked, chanting “Allahu Akbar” and “in spite of Gaddafi we made it to Misrata!” Alex Thomson blogs on the docking of the Red Star 1
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Misrata: On board the under-fire aid ship
A ship carrying humanitarian aid to besieged Misrata comes under fire, prompting UK Government protests. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson witnesses the desperate efforts to rescue the wounded.
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Awaiting safe passage from Misrata's bloody war
Beyond the horizon, 12 miles out at anchor, lies the Red Star ferry on charter to the International Organisation for Migration. Her 16 hour voyage from Benghazi to Misrata now an odyssey several days long as she waits offshore for notice that it is safe to dock.
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Libya: life in Misrata amid civil war
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson travels through the besieged rebel-held city of Misrata to witness the strange semblance of normal life – amid the shattering calm of sudden heavy bombardment.
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Gaddafi’s youngest son ‘killed in NATO air strike’
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survives a bomb attack in the capital Tripoli which kills his youngest son and three grandchildren, the government says. NATO insists individuals have not been targeted.
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Trapped in Misrata amid dangerous seas
I suppose that our team too remains trapped here until The Red Star can safely dock and then leave for Benghazi in the east.
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Libya: rebel deaths linked to NATO Misrata airstrikes
Up to 15 people, believed to be rebel fighters, may have been killed in a NATO airstrike in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, local sources tell Channel 4 News.
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Waiting off the coast to enter besieged Misrata
Alex Thomson waits on a ship off the Libyan coast. When it docks in a few hours, it will bring food and medical relief to the besieged people of Misrata.
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Reporting Libya’s war from inside Gaddafi’s Rixos hotel
Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports on the challenges of broadcasting stories from the parts of Libya still under Gaddafi’s control.
