Libya News
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Syrian opposition leaders sought international support for their new coalition as human-rights activists said the death toll in the seven-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad rose to 4,000.
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Libyan forces are combing homes in Sirte for Muammar Qaddafi supporters, after seizing key buildings in the former leader’s hometown in clashes that left scores dead and wounded.
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Libyan opposition forces engaged in a second day of street battles with troops loyal to Muammar Qaddafi in his hometown of Sirte.
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Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh plans to remain in power until after elections, his information minister said, even after Saleh announced on state television that he’d leave the post in coming days, Al Jazeera television reported yesterday.
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Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali Al- Naimi said there’s no excess supply in world oil markets and that the kingdom has been adjusting output to match fluctuating demand over recent months.
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If U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wouldn’t declare the military operation in Libya over quite yet, he was already talking about it in the past tense. Panetta yesterday stopped at two military bases in Italy involved in the six-month Libya mission. Meeting with about 150 coalition troops at the Italian Naval Air Station Sigonella, he praised their role and the results.
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Liberian President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf, activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemen’s Tawakkul Karman were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in promoting women’s rights and peace.
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Supporters of Muammar Qaddafi in Sirte battled Libyan forces seeking control over the former leader’s hometown as a critical security measure before forming a new government.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy took his reelection drive to Georgia, seeking to enhance his reputation as a statesman in the Black Sea country where he brokered a ceasefire to end a 2008 war with Russia.
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BP Plc sold a cargo of North Sea Forties crude to Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Total SA restarted its Elgin-Franklin oil and natural-gas fields after the Elgin platform was halted yesterday because of a technical fault.
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