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ZAWIYAH/BIN JAWAD, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan government forces launched a second attack on the western town of Zawiyah on Saturday after rebels drove them out in a morning of fierce fighting, while in the east, opponents of Muammar Gaddafi pushed towards his home town.

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ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi launched a new attack on the western town of Zawiyah on Saturday, with tanks shelling a rebel-held central square, residents said.

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LONDON (Reuters) - African workers trapped in Libya are the most vulnerable of the foreigners scrambling to flee the country, the United Nations refugee chief said on Saturday, warning that hundreds of thousands of lives were at risk.

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TRIPOLI, March 4 (Xinhua) -- 12 people were killed and 26 injured in two blasts of weapon depot near Libya's western city of Benghazi on Friday, Al-Jazeera TV reported.

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ANKARA, March 4 (Xinhua) -- A ship carrying more than 800 Syrians from Libya arrived in a southwestern Turkish port on Friday as Turkey continued to evacuate foreigners from the violence-hit North African country.

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BRUSSELS, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The international police organization Interpol on Friday issued an Orange Notice against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and 15 others, including his family members and close associates, according to a statement posted on the Interpol website.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's forces battled rebels on several fronts in a worsening of Libya's crisis on Friday and unrest erupted in the capital when gunmen fired to break up crowds shouting "Gaddafi is the enemy of God".

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Shooting rang out across a district of the Libyan capital on Friday as forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi tried to break up a crowd of protesters shouting "Gaddafi is the enemy of God!"

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TRIPOLI, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The anti-government protest in Libya has become an armed rebellion supported by foreign parties, instead of a peaceful movement, spokesman of the Libya government Mousar Ibrahim told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on Thursday in the capital of Libya.

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BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Some foreign governments and international organizations heaped more pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, as Russia warned of a civil war in this Northern African country.

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THE HAGUE, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Three Dutch soldiers have been taken hostage by an armed unit of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after a failed evacuation, a Dutch newspaper reported Thursday.

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TRIPOLI, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The chairman of the rebel National Libya Council said to Al-Jazerra TV on Thursday that the body has not been reached out by anyone regarding a plan put forward by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to peacefully end the crisis in Libya.

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UNITED NATIONS, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The head of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) called on enhanced global action to prevent what he called "humanitarian disaster" in Libya, UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky said here Wednesday.

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The situation at the Libyan-Tunisian border has reached crisis point as tens of thousands of people flee the reported violence by President Muammar Al-Qadhafi's loyalists, with 14,000 people crossing yesterday alone, the United Nations refugee agency said today.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya could descend into civil war if Muammar Gaddafi refuses to quit, the United States said on Tuesday, its demand for his departure carrying fresh weight after news of Western military preparations.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Libya's oil installations are undamaged and a cut in the country's oil output was caused by the departure of oil workers, the chairman of Libya's National Oil Corporation said on Tuesday.

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TRIPOLI, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- A Libyan government spokesman said Monday that Western powers and the terrorist group of al Qaida are the behind-the-curtain masterminds of the ongoing unrest in this North African country.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Foreign powers accelerated efforts to help oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Monday as rebels fought government forces trying to take back strategic coastal cities on either side of the capital Tripoli.

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NAIROBI/ABUJA (Reuters) - Kenyans and Nigerians fleeing unrest in Libya said on Monday they faced attacks and hostility from Libyan citizens and officials who branded them as mercenaries supporting Muammar Gaddafi's rule.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Darfur's most powerful rebel group on Monday asked the United Nations to rescue its leader from Libya, saying his life was in danger after accusations he was supplying mercenaries to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.