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Child soldiers sent by Gaddafi to fight Libyan rebels
A 16-year-old boy tells reporter Ruth Sherlock how Gaddafi loyalists forced him and other youths to fight the rebels on the front line of Misrata’s bitter siege.
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Tributes to photojournalists killed in Libya
Tributes are pouring in for Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, the two photojournalists killed in Misrata, including from Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller in Tripoli.
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Libyan government makes election offer to halt bombing
Libya’s foreign minister Abdul Ati al-Obeidi tells journalists that the country could hold elections if Western air strikes stop.
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Libya’s rebel movement: radicals or democrats?
We look at the most prominent members of Libya’s rebel movement – an ad hoc coalition of former Gaddafi men, soldiers, democrats and radicals.
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Libya: British military officers to advise rebels
Sending British military officers to advise rebels in Libya does not break UN rules, an international relations expert tells Channel 4 News. But a senior MP warns of parallels with the Vietnam war.
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UK leads Misrata evacuation mission in ‘grave’ Libya crisis
As Britain helps 5,000 refugees from Misrata, a flashpoint city in Libya’s war, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell tells Channel 4 News “very brave people” are leading the mission.
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Aid agencies warn of humanitarian crisis in Libya
Aid organisations are warning of a humanitarian disaster in Misrata, the last major rebel enclave in western Libya, where hundreds of civilians are said to have died in a “medieval” six-week siege.
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Situation in Libya’s third city Misrata ‘critical’
As Libyan rebels beg NATO for more air strikes against Colonel Gaddafi’s troops in besieged Misrata, a city resident tells Channel 4 News that the situation on the ground there is ‘critical’.
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Libya: Koussa’s sanctions lifted as fighting intensifies
Former Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussas EU sanctions have been removed and his assets unfrozen, as a divided NATO bombard Tripoli and a defiant Gaddafi attacks Misrata.
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Hague in Doha for Libya talks
Foreign Secretary William Hague is attending international talks on the Libya conflict in Doha, amid fears that a bloody stalemate has taken hold of the country.
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Libya summit: Britain aims to increase pressure on Gaddafi
Britain and France hope to persuade members of an international ‘contact group’ meeting in Doha that Gaddafi must go if the Libyan crisis is to be resolved.
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Moussa Koussa to attend Libya talks in Qatar
Former Libyan foreign minister Moussa Koussa will leave the UK to attend an international conference in Doha on the future of Libya. Victims of terror attacks tell Channel 4 News they are “outraged”.
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Libya: Gaddafi ‘accepts African Union peace plan’
Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi accepts a roadmap for ending the conflict, but Jonathan Rugman says the rebels will find any deal which sees Gaddafi remain in power “difficult, but not impossible” to accept.
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'Gaddafi is not a problem'
Libya’s Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Kaim tells Jonathan Rugman the continued presence of Colonel Gaddafi should not pose a problem as far as reconciling the east and west of the country is concerned.
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Libyan rebels: NATO failing civilians
The Libyan rebel commander accuses NATO of slow decision making, which is “letting the people in Misrata die every day”.