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Libya: four air strikes, tanks destroyed
French planes have carried out four air strikes in total Saturday in Libya, destroying several armored forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, said here in the early evening French military source.
Libya: The Americans will participate
The United States will participate "fully" in military operations in Libya "in the hours or days to come," said Saturday the head of French diplomacy, Alain Juppe, stressing that the objective was to obtain the fall of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi....
France invades Libya
The international coalition launched on Saturday a military operation in Libya with the shooting of a French plane against forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi....
French Rafale fighters flying over Libya
PARIS - Several French army fighter jets (Rafale) flew on Saturday over the "the entire territory of Libya" for reconnaissance missions, said French military sources. ...
URGENT Egypt: Islamists throw stones at Mohamed ElBaradei
CAIRO (Egypt) - Hundreds of Islamic militants threw stones at Egyptian Mohamed ElBaradei, the opponent while he was going to vote for the constitutional referendum on Saturday in Cairo, according to AFP journalists. ...
URGENT French aircraft involved in Libya
PARIS - French planes flew over Libya on Saturday to prevent "air attacks" by forces of Muammar Gaddafi in Benghazi and are "ready to intervene against tanks," said Saturday French President Nicolas Sarkozy, following a summit in Paris. ...
Bahrain eases curfew as work to return to normal
(Reuters) - Bahrain reduced curfew times by four hours on Saturday and said ministries and schools would return to normal working hours after a crackdown on mainly Shi'ite protesters raised tensions in the oil-producing region....
Allied planes fly over Libya as Gaddafi hits Benghazi
(Reuters) - Allied warplanes are stopping Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces attacking the rebel-held city of Benghazi, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Saturday....
Massacres in Yemen, Libya and Syria
Fighting took place on Thursday evening and Friday morning in Nalout and Zentena, two towns in the west under the control of Libyan opposition, between Gaddafi forces and the insurgents. Dozens of people were injured by gunfire in Yemen on Friday and four Syrian protesters were killed the same day by security forces in Syria...
URGENT Four protesters killed by security forces in Syria
NICOSIA - Four protesters were killed Friday by Syrian security forces and hundreds of others injured during a demonstration in Deraa, in the south, told AFP a humain rights activist on the spot....
URGENT Yemen: President declares state of emergency
SANAA - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh declared Friday a state of emergency in the country after the death of more than 41 people by shooting against an anti-government demonstration in Sanaa. ...
Bahrain: Authorities destroy the monument of Pearl Square
MANAMA - Bahraini authorities announced Friday they had destroyed the monument located on the Pearl Square in central Manama, which became a symbol of protest violently suppressed by government forces. ...
Libya declares ceasefire after West threatens attack
(Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's government said it was declaring a unilateral ceasefire in its offensive to crush Libya's revolt, as Western warplanes prepared to attack his forces....
Japan weighs need to bury nuclear plant; tries to restore power
(Reuters) - Japanese engineers conceded on Friday that burying a crippled nuclear plant in sand and concrete may be a last resort to prevent a catastrophic radiation release, the method used to seal huge leakages from Chernobyl in 1986....
Gaddafi escaped a suicide attack
Gaddafi escaped an assassination attempt in the barracks of Bab el Azizia in the Libyan capital Tripoli after a fighter has attacked the area where Gaddafi was supposed to be, with two missiles., Before the pro- Gaddafi forces did manage to fight back and shoot him....
Japan scrambles to pull nuclear plant back from brink
(Reuters) - Japan's nuclear crisis appeared to be spinning out of control on Wednesday after workers withdrew briefly from a stricken power plant because of surging radiation levels and a helicopter failed to drop water on the most troubled reactor....
Gaddafi shells city, threatens rebel stronghold
(Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's forces bombarded Libya's third largest city with artillery fire and advanced on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Wednesday as diplomatic steps to prevent him quelling a revolt ran aground....
Bahrain forces launch crackdown on protesters
(Reuters) - Bahraini forces backed by helicopters launched a crackdown on protesters on Wednesday, imposing a curfew and clearing hundreds from a camp that had become the symbol of an uprising by the Shi'ite Muslim majority....
A month after the start of the revolt, Gaddafi has taken advantage in Libya
Ajdabiya (Libya) - The pro-Qaddafi forces have regained the advantage in Libya, advancing eastward through bombings, a month after the beginning of a revolt that has turned into civil war without the G8 reach Tuesday agreement on military intervention. ...
Syria denies any military support to the Libyan regime
DAMASCUS - Syria on Tuesday denied military support to the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi facing a popular revolt that turned into a bloody civil war. ...
Gaddafi forces seize key town, G8 stalls on no-fly
(Reuters) - Heavy bombardment by Muammar Gaddafi's warplanes and artillery forced Libyan rebels to abandon a strategic town on Tuesday, and world powers failed to agree to push for a no-fly zone....
France fails to get G8 accord on Libya no-fly zone
(Reuters) - France failed on Tuesday to persuade its G8 partners to support its push for a no-fly zone over Libya, a setback to any chances of swift action to halt Muammar Gaddafi's advance against rebel forces....
Saudi sends troops, Bahrain Shi'ites call it "war"
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia sent troops into Bahrain on Monday to help put down weeks of protests by the Shi'ite Muslim majority, a move opponents of the Sunni ruling family on the island called a declaration of war....
Nuclear: Japan requests the assistance of the IAEA
VIENNA - Japan has formally requested the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the sending of a team of experts after the explosion at a nuclear plant said Monday the director general of the UN agency Yukiya Amano. ...
France to push for swift G8 agreement on Libya
(Reuters) - France will push G8 foreign ministers meeting in Paris to agree action on Libya, and back its efforts to speed up a U.N. Security Council decision on imposing a no-fly zone in Libya sought by anti-Gaddafi rebels....
Japan accident shows dilemma over atom plant sites
(Reuters) - Japan's nuclear accident exposes the dilemma of whether to build power plants on tsunami-prone coasts or inland sites where water supplies are unreliable, a problem likely to be aggravated by climate change, experts say....
Libya: the rebels ready to defend Ajdabiya
Benghazi (Libya) - The Libyan rebels, pushed eastward by loyalist forces, will defend Ajdabiya, a "vital" and "strategic" city, the last lock before their stronghold of Benghazi, said the insurgent commander, General Abdul Fattah Younis...
Libya: Gaddafi's forces move towards Benghazi
Brega (Libya) - Government forces were progressing Sunday towards Benghazi, Libyan opposition headquarters, with blows of heavy artillery and airstrikes, but the question of a no-fly zone remained at the phase of debate....
Libya: NGOs denounce the murder of a journalist from Al-Jazeera
CAIRO - Groups defending human rights have condemned Sunday's murder of a correspondent of Al-Jazeera in Libya and warned against the risk of a campaign of violence against journalists....
URGENT Morocco: Dozens injured after a demonstration in Casablanca
CASABLANCA (Morocco) - Dozens of people were injured, some seriously, Sunday in Casablanca, Morocco after police had tried to enter the headquarters of a leftist party that had fled the demonstrators, witnesses said....
Japan tries to avert nuclear meltdown as tsunami toll rises
(Reuters) - Japan fought on Sunday to avert a meltdown at three earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors, describing the massive quake and tsunami, which may have killed more than 10,000 people, as the nation's biggest crisis since World War Two....
Gaddafi's troops capture oil town of Brega
(Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's troops seized the strategic Libyan oil town of Brega Sunday forcing rebels to retreat under a heavy bombardment while world powers considered imposing a no-fly zone....
Yemen: U.S. calls for "immediate cessation" of violence
WASHINGTON - The U.S. expressed "deep concern" over violence during demonstrations in Yemen, which have killed and wounded in recent days and called for "immediate cessation of violence," Sunday in a statement from the State Department. ...
Japan: a volcano throws ash and stones
TOKYO - A volcano in southwestern Japan has thrown Sunday rocks and ash in the air up to 4,000 meters after two weeks of relative calm, officials said. ...
U.S. reports on Libyan leader Gaddafi
Ennahar continues to publish secret U.S. intelligence documents and reports dated 1986 on the situation in Libya's ruling regime of Colonel Gaddafi....
Japan quake: over 1,800 dead and missing
TOKYO-The powerful earthquake and tsunami that devastated Friday northeastern Japan caused more than 1,800 dead or missing, according to a new report based on provisional figures from the police and AFP. ...
Libya: Arabs for an exclusion zone and contacts with the opposition
CAIRO - Arab League is in favor of a no-fly zone in Libya and contacts with the Libyan National Transitional Council grouping opposition, said on Saturday diplomats attending the special meeting of the organization in Cairo. ...
Radiation leaks from Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant
(Reuters) - Radiation leaked from Japan's earthquake-crippled nuclear plant on Saturday after a blast blew the roof off, and authorities prepared to distribute iodine to people in the vicinity to protect them from exposure....
Libya troops launch assault on rebel holdout Misrata
(Reuters) - Troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi launched an assault on the city of Misrata on Saturday, attempting to recapture the last town in the west of the country still in rebel hands....
