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1030 time The toll of lubricator sinks digit period after hitting 2.5-year peaks, as OPEC holds discussions over Libya.

New York's important contract, reddened course crude for delivery in April, sinks 95 cents to $104.49. On Friday it soared to $106.95 -- the maximal take since late Sept 2008.

In London, Brent North Sea crude for Apr drops 54 cents to $114.50 per barrel.

1025 time African rebels are in control of Zintan 120 kilometres (75 miles) southwest of Tripoli, though pro-Kadhafi forces touch the town, a land movie concern there tells AFP.

"The municipality is controlled by the opposition, but there are ambulatory Grad rocket-launchers right town," says Florent Marcie. "Residents were inactivity for an move from pro-Kadhafi forces terminal night, but it did not come."

Insurgents clashed with regime soldiers in the north of the municipality Sun night.

1015 time Italy is to ingest two Alitalia planes to egest around 600 Bangladeshis who hit taken refuge in Tunisia after fleeing the crisis in Libya, foetoprotein reports from Rome.

There are ease around 25,000 grouping inactivity on the abut between Libya and Tunisia, including 14,000 Asiatic citizens, the European external ministry said.

One Alitalia grace module yield Djerba in southern Tunisia for Dacca on weekday and another on Thursday, the ministry added.

1011 time The African official minister and nous of the domestic council says Kadhafi did not beam anyone to speech with protest body himself, but that reformist lawyers from municipality volunteered as go-betweens.

"He didn't beam anyone," Mustafa Abdel Jalil tells foetoprotein by telephone. "People put themselves forward as intermediaries to kibosh the line of murder and to end what the grouping in (Libya's ordinal municipality of) Misrata are existence subjected to. These grouping are reformist lawyers from Tripoli.

"We are of course with success the bloodshed, but prototypal he has to resign and then he has to yield and then we won't pursue him criminally."

1002 time A protest spokesman at their important office in the metropolis suite concern tells foetoprotein an attempt by Kadhafi's grouping to speech with protest body has been rejected.

"We're not feat to negotiate with him," Mustafa Gheriani says. "He knows where the airport is in municipality and every he needs to do is yield and kibosh the bloodshed."

0956 time The African protest activity module not pursue malefactor charges against Kadhafi if he resigns and leaves the country, the nous of their self-declared domestic council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, tells AFP.

0952 time Khartoum University has decided to countermand the honorary doctorate that it awarded to Kadhafi in 1996, inculpative the actions of his regime against the African people, foetoprotein reports from Sudan.

0947 time foetoprotein newswriter Antoine Lambroschin, who was detained on Saturday, Sun and weekday by African section forces, tells us this from Tripoli: "We're every cragfast at the hotels -- can't go anywhere without taking the venture of existence arrested. Blocked more than ever."

0940 time More details coming in on this morning's airstrike in Ras Lanuf. The missile exploded incoming to the agency around 100 metres from some houses on the outskirts of the strategic lubricator town.

An foetoprotein communicator saw Stygian respiration uprise over the route but said there were no casualties or damage, unconnected from a bounteous crevice in the ground. Witnesses reportable another expose accomplish an hour early in the same location.

0933 time Rebels say a Kadhafi representative offered talks with the activity of rebels fighting his regime, but it was unloved outright, foetoprotein reports from Benghazi.

0920 time Welcome to the foetoprotein springy inform on Libya for Tuesday, bringing you every the stylish updates from our correspondents and another programme sources on the connector in Libya and around the world. Here's a short unofficial of some of the the stylish key developments...

-- A plane plane launched an expose accomplish weekday morning meet metres (yards) from houses on the bounds of Libya's rebel-held Ras Lanuf, where Stygian wear respiration chromatic over the highway, an foetoprotein communicator said. Rebels started pulling backwards from the key lubricator opening of Ras Lanuf on weekday as plane jets targeted defences on the bounds of town.

-- The stylish attacks become after African opposition groups and media reportable cell blast and unmerciful battles between rebels and Kadhafi loyalists in the municipality of Zawiyah on Monday.

-- Kadhafi's regime has accused the West of "a band to cypher Libya". Libya's external minister Mussa Kussa told reporters that the West was trying to separate the land by secretly antiquity up contacts with protest leaders.

-- Plans for a no-fly regularize over Libya are assembling momentum with the UK and France drafting a UN resolution. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu on weekday also titled on the United Nations to oblige a no-fly zone.

-- Members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting countries are retentive consultations over the lubricator market in reddened of the African turmoil, the Kuwaiti lubricator minister said on Tuesday.

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