Search results for ‘National transitional council’
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Talks between rebels and Gaddafi loyalists ‘failed’
Libya’s rebel commanders may have to resort to an assault to take the Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid after forces loyal to the Colonel remained defiant.
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'Gaddafi is mafia' – on the road to Bani Walid
Amid reports that Colonel Gaddafi’s troops have started to pull out, Bani Walid and its approaches remain insecure. It’s noon, Sunday, and the former Libyan rebels – who now call themselves the Libyan National Army (LNA) – are still negotiating with the Warfallah tribal leaders in Bani Walid over the surrender of the town.
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‘We know where Gaddafi is’ claims rebel chief
As the head of the rebel military council in Libya announces he knows the whereabouts of Colonel Gaddafi, Jonathan Miller reports from the road to Bani Walid, a remaining loyalist stronghold.
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Gaddafi defiant as British patrols target Bani Walid
As Colonel Gaddafi appeals to his supporters to continue to fight, Jonathan Miller travels to Tahunah, where rebel commanders are preparing for an assault on the Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid.
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Gaddafi urges supporters ‘fight on’
Muammar Gaddafi urged his supporters to fight on as world leaders freed up billions of dollars to help Libya’s new rulers rebuild the North African state.
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High-velocity celebration: Tripoli after Gaddafi
For now it is the Eid holiday. A pause. A time to try and drink in what has happened across this city, where another simple grafitti slogan captures the mood, the practicality, the possibility of the new reality: “I love this year – 2011”
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Leaders meet in Paris for ‘friends of Libya’ summit
As world leaders meet for a key summit on Libya, one analyst tells Channel 4 News there is a diplomatic scramble to establish Libya’s new government and avoid a “terrific embarrassment”.
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Saif Gaddafi vows to fight on – ‘No one will surrender’
As Saif Gaddafi pledges to fight to the end, his brother al-Saadi claims to want negotiations with the Libyan rebel council to end the conflict.
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Libya sees no role for UN military peacekeepers
Libya rejects the idea of international peacekeepers playing a role in the country’s future, as thousands in Tripoli freely celebrate the end of Ramadan for the first time in 42 years.
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Libya rebels demand return of Gaddafis from Algeria
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s wife and three children have fled to Algeria. In Libya, the rebel council says it is an “act of aggression” that Algeria let them in the country.
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Gaddafi forces given surrender deadline
With forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi given until Saturday to surrender by Libya’s rebel council, an expert tells Channel 4 News Gaddafi must now realise that the conflict is over.
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UK ‘welcome’ to investigate WPC Fletcher murder
EXCLUSIVE: Libya’s new reconstruction minister tells Channel 4 News Scotland Yard detectives would be welcomed to Libya to investigate the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher.
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Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi found ‘at death’s door’
The man convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi has reportedly been found in an unconscious state in Tripoli, clinging to life by an oxygen and fluid drip.
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Evidence of Libya massacre as remains of 50 people found
As the charred skeletons of more than 50 people are found in a farm building outside Tripoli, Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson tracks the terrifying ordeal of black Africans caught up in the war.
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Britain to send emergency aid to Libya
Britain will help Libya’s new rulers restore basic services as they strengthen their grip on the country. But the hunt for Colonel Gaddafi continues.
