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Colonel Gaddafi’s regime in Libya could be entering a final, decisive phase, with reports that the main pipeline supplying oil to Tripoli has been cut.

A Taliban attack on a landmark hotel in Kabul has left nine people dead. An expert tells Channel 4 News the Taliban are staging “spectacular” attacks like this to show their continuing power.

The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. But whether he will face justice or not still hangs in the balance, a lawyer tells Channel 4 News.

As troops leave Afghanistan defence experts tell Channel 4 News securing the violent eastern border with Pakistan will become a priority, and that may include the use of more unmanned drone strikes.

As Italy calls for fighting in Libya to be suspended so aid can reach victims, one charity tells Channel 4 News reports of landmines in western regions are making aid deliveries “very difficult”.

As British soldiers parade past Parliament on the eve of a major US announcement on troop withdrawal, Channel 4 News asks them how they feel about the future of British involvement in Afghanistan.

Nato has confirmed that one of its airstrikes on Tripoli went off target and may have caused civilian casualties, following claims by Libyan officials that nine civilians died in the strike.

Nato’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells Channel 4 News he regrets the “tragic loss of life” following an off-target air strike in Tripoli, but says the mission is meeting its objectives.

Libyan officials say seven civilians, including a baby, have been killed in a NATO strike in eastern Tripoli. NATO has told Channel 4 News it is “looking into the facts”.

Russia and China step up pressure on the West over its action in Libya, urging “meticulous adherence” to the UN resolutions authorising the action. Lindsey Hilsum reports from Tripoli.

As 10 Congressmen begin legal action to halt US involvement in Libya, David Cameron says the cost of operations is sustainable. Channel 4 News looks at who is winning the war in Libya.

“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.”

The head of the Royal Navy warns the fleet will not be able to continue its current scale of operations beyond the summer, as the US House of Representatives votes to prohibit funding of the conflict.

NATO risks “collective military irrelevance” unless Europe boosts its spending, according to US Defence Secretary Robert Gates.

Syria must stop “bludgeoning its own people”, says the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, as 1,500 people flee to Turkey and footage emerges of a second mutilated boy.