20110630
Reuters
NEW YORK/MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - France said it did not break a U.N. arms embargo by airlifting weapons to Libya's rebels because the arms were needed to defend civilians under threat.

20110629
xinhua
TRIPOLI/BRUSSELS, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Three months of NATO airstrikes have left Libya with masses of debris and no sign of it scaling down, as the future for Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi remains gloomy.

20110629
xinhua
BENGHAZI, Libya, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Bulgaria and Croatia recognized on Tuesday the Libyan opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.

20110629
xinhua
TRIPOLI, June 28 (Xinhua) -- A NATO airstrike killed eight civilians and injured some others Tuesday at a market in the town of Tawragha, 300 km east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, said Libya's official news agency.

20110628
xinhua
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The arrest warrant for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi issued Monday by the International Criminal Court (ICC) aroused both opposition and support around the world.

20110627
xinhua
ALGIERS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Speaker of Algerian Council of the Nation (upper house of Parliament) Abdelkader Bensalah, met on Monday in Algiers the secretary of Foreign Affairs at the General People's Congress of Libya Slimane Chahoumi.

20110627
Xinhua
UNITED NATIONS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Although an agreement is still far from being concluded, the beginning of a negotiation process is underway over conflict-torn Libya, Lynn Pascoe, who is the UN's under secretary-general for political affairs, said here on Monday.

20110627
xinhua
ALGIERS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Libyan Foreign Minister Abdelaati Obeidi has been meeting some foreign representatives in Djerba, Tunisia, in a bid to find solutions to the Libyan crisis, Tunisia's state-run press agency TAP reported Sunday.

20110627
Xinhua
PRETORIA, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had accepted of not being part of the negotiation process, according to the communiqué issued by the meeting of the African Union (AU) High-Level ad hoc Committee on Libya in Pretoria on Sunday.

20110626
Reuters
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO said on Saturday its missiles had hit a site in Libya used by Muammar Gaddafi's forces to stockpile military supplies and vehicles, while Gaddafi's state media said 15 civilians had been killed.

20110626
Reuters
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Four members of Libya's national soccer team and 13 other football figures have defected to rebels in a blow to Muammar Gaddafi's government, the rebel authority in eastern Libya said on Saturday.

20110626
ReutersTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Standing opposite the wreckage of what used to be the Hotel Wenzrik in central Tripoli, the Libyan man spoke his mind to reporters for a good few minutes, even as their government minders began to zero in on him.

20110626
Reuters
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - In the brief, heady period at the start of the uprising in the Libyan capital against Muammar Gaddafi, activists relied on Facebook and text messages to network, organise and express themselves.

20110625
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rap star Missy Elliott on Friday insisted her battle with the thyroid malady Graves' disease has not sidelined her career, a day after it was revealed that she has the ailment.

20110625
xinhua
BENGHAZI, Libya, June 24 (Xinhua) -- A humanitarian vessel carrying about 300 people arrived in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi on Friday, in a move that may start contacts between the Libyan government and the rebels after four months of fighting.

20110624
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Libyan students in the United States on Libyan government-funded scholarships will be able to continue their studies despite sanctions against Libya, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.

20110623
PRESS TV
Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi has accused NATO of murder, vowing to retaliate for the killing of civilians during air raids by the Western military alliance.

20110623
Reuters
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday Libya's opposition is making very clear progress on the ground in Libya.

20110623
Reuters
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - A split has opened within the NATO-led air campaign against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, with France and Britain rejecting an Italian call for a halt to military action to allow aid access.

20110623
Reuters
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's rebels gained on the diplomatic front on Wednesday by securing China's recognition as a "dialogue partner", but suffered on the battlefield where Muammar Gaddafi's forces were able to shell their stronghold of Misrata.