Shokri Ghanem, chairman of Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC), has defected from the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, Arab television stations reported on Monday.
Libya said on Monday that tens of thousands of telecoms workers would act as human shields to deter NATO strikes on communications infrastructure, which it said had inflicted serious financial damage.
NATO must broaden the range of targets it is bombing in Libya or risk failing to remove Muammar Gaddafi from power, Britain's most senior military officer was quoted as saying.
Italian oil firm Eni SpA expects the "Libyan problem" to be over in a year and is not worried for the longer term, Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni said in an interview published on Monday.
Tears, chants and volleys of gunfire fired into the air punctuated the funeral for nine imams Libya said NATO killed in an air strike, but the alliance said the building it struck was a command-and-control centre.
President Barack Obama gave his stamp of approval to Libya's anti-Gaddafi forces on Friday, bringing leaders of the rebel group to the White House where they were deemed credible and legitimate.
International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Friday he would seek arrest warrants on 16 May for three people considered most responsible for crimes against humanity in Libya.
Italy said on Friday Muammar Gaddafi has very likely left the Libyan capital and probably been wounded by NATO air strikes, a report that Tripoli immediately dismissed as "nonsense".
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has likely been wounded in western airstrikes and has probably left Tripoli, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Friday.
20110512 presstv Libyan state TV has showed footage of Muammar Gaddafi meeting officials in Tripoli, dampening mounting speculations that the embattled ruler was injured in an April airstrike.
20110512 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan state television showed footage of Muammar Gaddafi meeting officials in a Tripoli hotel, ending nearly two weeks of doubt over his fate since a NATO air strike killed his son.
CAIRO (Reuters) - A cousin of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi denied on Tuesday a report that the Egyptian authorities had placed him under house arrest in Cairo.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan government forces bombarded a residential area outside Misrata on Tuesday, said rebels trying to maintain their grip on the city in the face of a fierce onslaught.
A stalemate on the battlefields of Libya and a political deadlock on the U.N. Security Council have left Western powers with a stark choice -- covertly aid the rebels or leave them in the lurch.
NATO planes pounded Libyan government weapons depots southeast of the town of Zintan on Monday, in a sign of widening conflict in the Western Mountains region as rebels battle to unseat Muammar Gaddafi.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi are hiding tanks and artillery and using "shoot and scoot" tactics in Misrata, frustrating NATO air efforts to break a weeks-long siege of the rebel-held Libyan city.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The head of the rebel forces in eastern Libya retracted on Saturday an assertion by a rebel spokesman that Italy had agreed to supply them with weapons to aid in their fight to oust leader Muammar Gaddafi.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan government forces bombed large fuel storage tanks in the contested western city of Misrata, destroying the tanks and sparking a huge fire, rebels said on Saturday.
