20110429
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Rising food and fuel prices will pose a major challenge for Congo this year, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday, as it announced the release of $80 million in loans to the government.

20110428
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The United States took steps to throw a financial lifeline to rebels controlling eastern Libya while forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi focused their firepower on pockets of resistance in the west.

20110428
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The United States and its allies do not seem to be serious in their intentions to remove Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi from power, says a political analyst.

20110428
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Libyan revolutionaries have repelled attacks by forces loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi in the northwestern city of Zintan.

20110428
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The United States has permitted oil deals with Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC) in an effort to financially push the fight against the country's ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

20110425
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Military deadlock in Libya has exposed growing international rifts, with critics of NATO bombing calling it another case of the West trying to overthrow a regime by stretching the terms of a U.N. resolution.

20110425
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union on Tuesday accused Western nations of undermining its efforts to find a homegrown solution to the Libya conflict and said the civil war was in danger of becoming a stalemate.

20110425
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Britain and the United States plan to step up military pressure on Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday, as the Libyan leader's army presses its bloody siege of the rebel-held city of Misrata.

20110426
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's rebel-held city of Misrata won no respite from two months of bitter siege as Muammar Gaddafi's forces bombarded the city and battled rebel fighters, despite pulling out of the city centre.

20110426
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it will not support any United Nations Security Council resolutions on Libya which could escalate the conflict in the North African nation, local news agencies reported.

20110424
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi bombarded Misrata on Sunday, a day after rebels celebrated the pullback of government troops from the western Libyan city, a rebel spokesman said.

20110424
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - At least 36 people have been killed in attacks on the western Libyan city of Misrata by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi since Saturday, a rebel spokesman there said.

20110423
reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pro-defense U.S. senators on Sunday said the United States should raise military pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to leave, and one said NATO should end the crisis quickly with an attack aimed at Gaddafi and his inner circle in Tripoli.

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The US carried out its first drone strike on Libya on Saturday, the Pentagon said. Heavy fighting is taking place in Misrata after Moamer Kadhafi's regime gave its army an ultimatum to win back the besieged port city.

20110423
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Government forces retreated in Libya's coastal city of Misrata after two months of siege, but seized a rebel town in the remote Western Mountains, with no sign yet of Muammar Gaddafi being dislodged from power.

20110423
reuters

QENA, Egypt (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptians on Friday demanded the sacking of three provincial governors who had served in the police force of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, testing the authority of the new government.

20110423
reuters

TUNISIA-LIBYA BORDER (Reuters) - Libyan rebels rushed supplies on Saturday to remote mountain towns under attack by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, cheered by reports of gains for fellow fighters in the city of Misrata.

20110423
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 15 people were killed by booby-traps and in ambushes set up by Gaddafi brigades on Saturday while withdrawing from the Libyan city of Misrata, a rebel spokesman told Al Jazeera television.

20110423
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MISRATA, Libya, April 23 - Washington should deploy ground attack aircraft against Muammar Gaddafi's forces and recognise the rebels, leading U.S. Senator John McCain said, becoming highest-profile Western politician to visit rebel-held Libya.

20110423
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO jets hit a target near Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's compound in central Tripoli early on Saturday, which the government described as a car park but which Reuters reporters said looked like a bunker.