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Libyan public opinion awaits a sign
Our International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, seeks a way to discover public opinion in Libya.
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Libya: Getting the wobbles
“NATO appears to have run out of targets in Tripoli, but the Brother Leader is still here, playing chess with his friend Kirsan Illuyzhinov, the President of the World Chess Federation,a man who claims to have been briefly abducted by space aliens in 1997.”
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Libya: rebels battle Gaddafi forces south of Tripoli
Fighters battle government forces for a second day in the town of Zawiyah, as International Editor Lindsey Hilsum writes from Tripoli that the rebels are yet to penetrate Col Gaddafi’s capital.
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The teenage Libyan rebel from Manchester
As Libyans in Britain anxiously watch events in their homeland, a few choose to return and fight with the rebels. Jane Deith has been talking to one of them.
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Libya rebels’ funding boost from allies
Western and Arab countries pledge more than $1.1bn in funding for Libya’s Transitional National Council at a meeting of the Contact Group on Libya in Abu Dhabi.
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Libya: Gaddafi’s troops advance on Misrata
NATO’s call to ramp up the bombing campaign in Libya falls on deaf ears, as thousands of Colonel Gaddafi’s troops attack the rebel-held city of Misrata.
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NATO steps up Libya airstrikes
Between 12 and 20 heavy explosions rock Tripoli in one of the most intensive nights of bombing yet. Libyan authorities say three people have been killed and 150 wounded in the attack.
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Libya: Will Gaddafi use mustard gas?
Following Osama bin Laden’s death, defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones says there are rising concerns over the fate of Libya’s chemical weapons.
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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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Libyan ambassador expelled from UK amid Tripoli attacks
The Foreign Secretary expels the Libyan ambassador to the UK in the wake of attacks on British embassy premises in Tripoli. It comes after the apparent death of Gaddafi’s son in a NATO air strike.
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Libya: NATO dismisses Gaddafi’s offer of talks
Gaddafi offers a ceasefire provided NATO stop aerial bombardment – but refuses to give up power as fighting continues. Alex Thomson reports from Misrata on the desperate struggle to save lives.
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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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UN’s Libya vote: who voted for what
There was a split between the UN Security Council’s permanent members when they came to vote on a Libyan no-fly zone resolution. So who voted for what – and why?
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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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Two photographers die in Libyan rocket attack
British filmmaker Tim Hetherington and US photographer Chris Hondros were killed and two other journalists injured by mortar fire in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Jonathan Miller pays tribute.
