A rebel spokesman has said that Misrata came under heavy bombardment on Sunday by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. Government forces had retreated in the coastal city of Misrata after a siege of nearly two months and rebels fighting to overthrow Gaddafi had claimed victory there on Saturday. ”The situation is very dangerous,” rebel spokesman Abdelsalam said by [...]
Snipers, cluster bombs and intense shelling are spreading panic in Misrata, an AFP reporter said on Monday, as a doctor reported 1,000 people killed in six weeks of fighting in the besieged city. With fears growing that refugees will attempt a chaotic mass escape by sea from the city of 400,000, UN chief Ban Ki-moon called [...]
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – President Barack Obama’s Republican foes in the US House of Representatives muscled their politically risky budget to passage Friday, calling it the cure to out-of-control government spending. In an almost perfect party-line vote, lawmakers voted 235-193 to approve the non-binding blueprint crafted by Republican Representative Paul Ryan and roundly denounced [...]
TRIPOLI, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – Fighting raged in the long-besieged rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata on Friday and Moamer Kadhafi’s hometown was reportedly hit by NATO, as world leaders said the Libyan leader had to go. Heavy gunfire and shelling could be heard in Misrata, with sustained exchanges near the centre before nightfall, an AFP [...]
DAMASCUS, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – Thousands of protesters massed across Syria after weekly Muslim prayers on Friday as a global outcry widened over a deadly crackdown on month-old, anti-regime demonstrations. The protesters took to the streets of the restive city of Daraa as well as other centres in the Kurdish-populated north, a day after embattled [...]
CAIRO, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – Egypt’s state prosecutor decided Friday to move ailing ex-president Hosni Mubarak to a military hospital, then to prison when his health improves, in a probe over a deadly crackdown on protesters that could send him to the gallows, state media reported. Mubarak and his sons Gamal and Alaa were remanded [...]
BAGHDAD, April 13, 2011 (AFP) – Iraqi leaders should not expect US forces to return to help in a crisis once they leave at the end of the year, a senior American military official said on Wednesday. The remarks came just days after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates ended a two-day visit to Iraq during which [...]
MOSCOW, April 13, 2011 (AFP) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he did not rule out running for president in 2012 polls, a day after President Dmitry Medvedev said he would soon announce if he will stand. ”Neither myself nor Dmitry Anatoliyevich (Medvedev) exclude that each of us could stand for election,” Putin [...]
BEIJING, April 12, 2011 (AFP) – China on Tuesday refused to provide any details about the whereabouts of detained outspoken artist Ai Weiwei and chided foreign countries for supporting a “suspected criminal”. Ai, who was taken into custody in Beijing on April 3 as he tried to board a flight to Hong Kong, is under investigation [...]
BRUSSELS, April 12, 2011 (AFP) – The European Union will work with Ivory Coast’s government to remove all sanctions that were imposed to pressure strongman Laurent Gbagbo to step down, a senior EU diplomat said Tuesday. One day after Gbagbo was detained, the top diplomat said the EU would consult with President Alassane Ouattara’s administration on [...]
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