Moammar Gadhafi's forces intensified the
shelling of rebel positions outside a strategic eastern city
Wednesday as they fought to prevent the opposition from taking
advantage of the 5-day-old international air campaign to regroup in
the east.
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A U.S.-led coalition has succeeded in
scattering and isolating Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi's forces
after a weekend of punishing air attacks, Pentagon officials say,
and American military authorities are moving to hand control of the
operation to other countries.
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Yemeni government snipers firing from rooftops and houses shot at tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators on Friday, killing at least 31 people and injuring hundreds in the crowd demanding the ouster of the autocratic president.
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Libya declared an immediate cease-fire Friday, trying to fend off international military intervention after the U.N. authorized a no-fly zone and "all necessary measures" to prevent the regime from striking its own people.
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The Obama administration and America's allies
have won an open-ended endorsement from the United Nations for
military action in Libya, where Moammar Gadhafi's regime is
pressing to eliminate any opposition to his rule. Now they'll have
to move fast.
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Libya's opposition battled to keep Moammar
Gadhafi's forces at the gateway to rebel-held territory on
Thursday, hoping for help from the U.N. Security Council before his
tanks and troops break through the city of Ajdabiya.
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When Conor Grennan went to Nepal in 2006, he thought he was just going to volunteer in an orphanage for a couple of months.
Instead, as he recounts in his book "Little Princes" he found a new calling, searching for victims of child trafficking in a war-ravaged country.
With fierce barrages of tank and
artillery fire, Moammar Gadhafi's loyalists threw rebels into a
frantic retreat from a strategic oil port Thursday, using
overwhelming force in a counteroffensive that reversed the
opposition's advance toward the capital Tripoli and now threatens
its positions in the east.
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Libyan warplanes launched at least five
new airstrikes Tuesday near rebel positions in the oil port of Ras
Lanouf, keeping up a counteroffensive to prevent the opposition
from advancing toward leader Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold in the
capital Tripoli.
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