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As it happened: Libya uprising February 25

Tom Coghlan, on the Libya-Tunisia border, James Hider, in Tobruk, and Sadie Gray also contributed to this live blog

* Colonel Gaddafi urges loyalists in Green Square to “fight for Libya”
*US announces unspecified sanctions against Libya
*Rebel forces ‘hunting Gaddafi’
*Tanks ring Tripoli as Gaddafi digs in for the endgame
*Cameron sends HMS York to Libya
*220 Britons still stranded, mainly in desert camps
*SAS poised to rescue trapped British oil workers
*Western leaders plot Gaddafi’s downfall

22.50 GMT Will Pavia, our UN Correspondent, describes how the Libyan ambassador to the UN made an emotional address to the United Nations, comparing his erstwhile leader to Hitler and Pol Pot and appealing to the international community to save his country.

His voice sometimes faltering, his eyes bright, Mohamed Shalgham, Libya’s Ambassador to the United Nations, described his horror at the violence Colonel Gadaffi