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Libya: Mountain villagers facing ‘starvation’
Channel 4 News speaks to a source in Libya who tells of the potential starvation of thousands in the Nafusa Mountain range due to Gaddafi forces blocking aid, medicine and water.
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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: attacks on Misrata ‘may be war crimes’
The Libyan Government’s shelling of rebel-held Misrata, including the targeting of hospitals and killing of civilians, could constitute crimes under international law, the UN human rights chief says.
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British military to advise Libyan rebels: where does it end?
As the British Government announces it’s sending British military advisors to Afghanistan, Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson asks whether the EU could end up fighting on foreign soil for the first time?
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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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UK holding Libya talks at UN over Misrata civilian crisis
Street by street, the battle for Misrata goes on. Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports from Libya as a UK minister travels to the United Nations for humanitarian crisis talks.
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Libya denies using cluster bombs as ‘children pick them up’
A Libyan army officer insists “we do not have” cluster bombs. But writing for Channel 4 News, reporter in Misrata Ruth Sherlock says they are in use, nicknamed “candy bombs” and harming civilians.
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Libya: Gaddafi forces are ‘using cluster bombs’
Human Rights Watch backs claims by rebel fighters that pro-Gaddafi forces are using cluster bombs in Misrata, as a freelance reporter in the city tells Channel 4 News the evidence is highly visible.
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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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Leaders: Libya campaign will continue until Gaddafi goes
The leaders of Britain, France and the United States vow to continue the military campaign in Libya until Colonel Muammar Gaddafi “goes, and goes for good.”
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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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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”.