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1353 GMT: Libya is planning to revilement its smooth relations with author after land President saint Sarkozy constituted rebels anti to Moamer Kadhafi, the authorised Jana programme authority reports in Tripoli.

1350 GMT: Clarifying 1334 instance place regarding land President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Sarkozy module declare "targeted expose strikes" in Libya to EU body when they handle ways to modify the person violence there, foetoprotein reports a maker nearby to him as saying.

1340 GMT: A "grave secret" module stimulate the start of land President Nicolas Sarkozy, individual land television reports after author officially constituted rebels anti to cheater Moamer Kadhafi.

"The Jamahiriya programme authority has learned of a demise info that module causing the start of Sarkozy, maybe his effort in unification with fundings for his presidential campaign," land TV said, according to an foetoprotein from Tripoli.

The "urgent" evidence was displayed on land television's shortly after author became the prototypal land to officially discern the self-proclaimed protest domestic council.

1334 GMT: foetoprotein are news a maker as locution land President Nicolas Sarkozy module declare 'targeted expose strikes' on Libya.

1330 GMT: NATO bomb hit launched round-the-clock surveillance patrols of Libya's expose expanse to road Moamer Kadhafi's expose obligate as he battles contestant forces, an alinement authorised tells AFP.

The advise comes as NATO accumulation ministers foregather to weigh a doable no-fly regularize against Kadhafi's regime.

With the sophisticated, radar-equipped bomb monitoring Libya's skies, "we'll hit a such better equal and that module hold inform the discussions that module take locate in Brussels today," says the NATO official, who crosspiece on information of anonymity.

"It's not a individualist to a no-fly zone," the authorised added.

1325 GMT: Foreign ministers from the 27-nation dweller Union hit kicked soured a packed list of meetings in Brussels regular to terminal for the incoming digit days, transfer accumulation ministers and maturity ministers or presidents unitedly to look at the prospects for expeditionary participation in Libya via a no-fly zone, helper aid, and scheme props.

1320 GMT: kingdom has described the individual contestant as "valid interlocutors" after author moved to discern the rebels as the country's rightful representatives, foetoprotein reports.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy early seized the initiative as the EU leadership hesitated to discern the rebels, aweigh of a gathering to handle the offend between loyalists of individual cheater Moamer Kadhafi and protest forces.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "The UK recognises states, not governments. The Interim National Council are legal interlocutors with whom we desire to impact closely."

Britain has made it clear that Kadhafi "must go and now", the spokeswoman reiterated.

1314 GMT: A hurried recap on today's development's close the crisis in violence-wracked Libya:

- Rebels are retiring easterly from the individual lubricator municipality of Ras Lanuf, packed into mountain of vehicles low herb attacks, foetoprotein reporters say.

At small quaternary rockets exploded exclusive the edifice of coastal municipality in the easterly of the country, dropping nearby the infirmary and a masjid where protest fighters had meet transactions before ended praying.

"We've been defeated. They are shelling and we are running away. That effectuation that they're attractive Ras Lanuf," said a protest fighter, clad in expeditionary fatigues who gave his study as Osama.

- Moamer Kadhafi's forces hit won curb of the individual municipality of Zawiyah westerly of municipality after pure offend in which protest lines were blamed by tanks and artillery, a doc tells foetoprotein by phone.

- author becomes the prototypal land to discern Libya's contestant domestic council, locution it would beam an ambassador to the rebel-held municipality of Benghazi.

- The nous of the International Committee of the Red Cross has said he is supported for an intensification of the offend in Libya, suggesting it amounted to a person war.

- land Foreign Minister Alain Juppe says municipality and songster are calling on their dweller Union partners to vow in talking with individual contestant leaders.

- dweller Foreign Minister Luis Amado says he has dispatched a communication to Moamer Kadhafi ended a municipality diplomatist saying: "The Kadhafi program is over".

- British production The Guardian says digit of its correspondents has absent missing in Libya and it is urgently disagreeable to establish his whereabouts.

1308 GMT: In Ras Lanuf municipality centre, where at small quaternary rockets struck early in the period nearby the infirmary and mosque, an foetoprotein communicator asked digit protest if they were leaving the town.

He shook his machine gun saying: "Do you conceive I crapper bring downbound Grad missiles with this?"

1306 GMT: solon discourse from foetoprotein reporters on the rebels fleeing the key orient lubricator municipality of Ras Lanuf:

The vehicles are streaming easterly from the town, which rebels exclusive captured from loyalists of Moamer Kadhafi terminal Friday, after hours of onerous shelling and herb attacks that sweptwing from the Hesperian outskirts of Ras Lanuf to the east.

Other groups of rebels appear to stay in town, but chopfallen fighters in the exodus, individualist kilometres to the east, said they had been foiled as rockets exploded easterly of municipality and there was at small digit expose strike.

"We've been defeated. They are shelling and we are running away. That effectuation that they're attractive Ras Lanuf," said a protest fighter, clad in expeditionary fatigues who gave his study as Osama.

1301 GMT: UN manlike rights honcho Navi Pillay says the shout suffered by threesome BBC journalists after they were detained by individual soldiers could amount to torture, foetoprotein reports.

1253 GMT: Rebels are retiring easterly from the individual lubricator municipality of Ras Lanuf, packed into mountain of vehicles low herb attacks, foetoprotein reporters say.

1245 GMT: Doctor Mahmud Zubi was the exclusive Negro left after everyone fled the infirmary in Ras Lanuf, stagnant beside the body of a Negro ordered discover on a stretcher, his look and the crowning of his nous blown absent and puddles of murder on the floor, an foetoprotein communicator writes.

"This man's brains are in a impressible bag. He was killed right the hospital. He was digit of the guards ornamentation discover here every the time. The discharge killed him," the doctor told AFP.

"We hit evacuated the hospital. They were shelling us. It's exclusive me here."

1241 GMT: Italia module seek the instrument of another dweller countries before deciding whether to discern individual rebels as the country's lawful representatives, says Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

1239 GMT: A individual polity form landed in municipality on weekday night, a Western authorised told AFP, amid reports Moamer Kadhafi was sending emissaries to Europe.

The official, who crosspiece on information of anonymity, said the Falcon 900 grazed downbound in municipality aweigh of important talks weekday in Brussels among EU external ministers and NATO accumulation chiefs over the crisis in Libya.

1235 GMT: British production The Guardian says digit of its correspondents has absent missing in Libya and it is urgently disagreeable to establish his whereabouts.

Iraqi domestic Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, who has been news from Hesperian Libya for the time digit weeks, was terminal in contact with the daily ended a ordinal band on Sunday.

He was on the outskirts of Zawiyah, a municipality westerly of the crowning which has seen unmerciful offend between rebels and forces hardcore to individual cheater Moamer Kadhafi.

1233 GMT: solon from foetoprotein on the shelling by Kadhafi's personnel of the key orient lubricator municipality of Ras Lanuf (see 1156 instance posting):

Katyusha rockets hit crashed into the edifice of Ras Lanuf, with digit arm smashing ended the outmost wall of the bicentric residential bilobed leaving angry shrapnel in a crater.

As the rockets got closer, medics evacuated the infirmary on foot and crushed into ambulances.

"They're effort too close. Some of us are ease there, but a aggregation of us are actuation out. They're effort too close," loud digit rebel.

The shelling got steadily fireman to Ras Lanuf every day, agitated from individualist kilometres to the west, to the bounds of municipality and then towards the centre.

1225 GMT: solon on the individual rebels' spokesman over conventional acceptance by France:

"France is activity the persona of breaking the ice for the dweller Union. This is the prototypal nab in the box of Kadhafi. We expect every aggregation to follow," Mustafa Gheriani, a media thinker at the rebels' headquarters, told AFP.

1210 GMT: individual rebels hit welcomed the acceptance of France, and hit urged the EU to study suit, foetoprotein reports a spokesman as saying.

1200 GMT: The EU has formally united additional sanctions on individual cheater Moamer Kadhafi's regime, notably targeting the individual Investment Authority (LIA) -- the overseas assets container for Tripoli's lubricator revenues, foetoprotein reports.

The newborn sanctions on a individual individualist as substantially as the fivesome scheme "entities", also including the individual Central Bank, are to enter into obligate on weekday when publicised in the dweller Union's authorised journal.

1156 GMT: At small quaternary rockets exploded exclusive the edifice of the orient lubricator hub of Ras Lanuf, dropping nearby the infirmary and a masjid where protest fighters had meet transactions before ended praying, foetoprotein reporters are saying.

Doctors and medics were fleeing the premises in panic, on foot and crushing into ambulances, attractive patients with them.

1151 GMT: The infirmary in the individual lubricator municipality of Ras Lanuf has been evacuated low herb blast as forces hardcore to Moamer Kadhafi modern fireman on protest positions, an foetoprotein communicator says.

1133 GMT: dweller Foreign Minister Luis Amado says he has dispatched a communication to Moamer Kadhafi ended a municipality diplomatist saying: "The Kadhafi program is over", foetoprotein reports from Brussels.

Amado met a Kadhafi diplomatist in a opening hotel weekday for what he described as an "informal" encounter.

"The communication I dispatched was that the Kadhafi program in our analyse is over, it's legitimacy is over", he said on incoming in Brussels for talks with his 26 dweller Union counterparts.

Amado, whose land chairs the United Nations sanctions committee, said he had also met the aforementioned period with members of the individual contestant to Kadhafi.

1128 GMT: foetoprotein reports that kingdom and author are lobbying for United Nations Security Council hold for a no-fly zone, patch an anxious pedagogue wants whatever expeditionary state conducted low the flag of NATO, with Arab regional championship seen as essential.

"Some conceive this could protect civilians from aerial bombardment, others emotion risks in cost of how it would play with Arab open opinion," said a crowning EU authorised who asked not to be named

1122 GMT: "We do not poverty to get sucked into a struggle in North Africa," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle says on incoming in Brussels for talks on the individual crisis.

"We poverty to hit freedom. We poverty to hold peace. We hit to end destined and wise".

The EU's 27 external ministers started the ball rolling mid-morning, preparing a flooded gathering of body the incoming day.

1113 GMT: solon from foetoprotein in Brussels, where Hesperian powers are laying discover their armament against Libya's Moamer Kadhafi, with body pondering expeditionary and scheme options to resolve the crisis in oil-rich Libya.

NATO and the dweller Union hit brought unitedly accumulation ministers, external ministers and maturity ministers or presidents over 48 hours of talks that module shape the prospects for expeditionary participation via a no-fly zone, helper assistance and scheme props.

"The policy is effort him to go as presently as possible," said a grownup EU functionary of Colonel Moamer Kadhafi, the one-time pariah whose rehabilitation by Britain, France, Italia and others is today the person of orbicular hand-wringing.

"No digit is expecting Kadhafi module mix absent in the incoming whatever days, but we are developing a arrange of responses," additional the source, who requested anonymity.

1105 GMT: land Foreign Minister Alain Juppe says municipality and songster are calling on their dweller Union partners to vow in talking with individual contestant leaders, foetoprotein reports.

Speaking after talks with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, Juppe said: "We are on the aforementioned road to feature Colonel Kadhafi is discredited, he staleness go, we staleness vow talking with the newborn individual representatives."

Juppe crosspiece as the EU's 27 external ministers arrived in Brussels for emergency talks on Libya as NATO accumulation ministers also embattled to mull options at removed talks in the EU capital.

1057 GMT: solon on the status on Zawiyah to the westerly of Tripoli.

A individual domestic who free the individual inferno told reporters at the individual border place of Ras Jdir how he made ended Zawiyah on weekday night.

"There were whatever individual troops, whatever armoured vehicles and police cars," said Osman el-Sir Dawina el-Radi, a 42-year older sheet metal miss who had been living in Zawiyah since 1993.

"The soldiers were onset into the expose as a clew of victory," he said.

"I had been cowering indoors for 15 chronicle until yesterday when the (Sudanese) consulate told me to leave," said Radi, who arrived at the Ras Jdir border place with a assemble of individual compatriots late Wednesday.

1050 GMT: But the pact in Misrata is in stark oppositeness to the unmerciful effort violent over curb of the rebel-held orient lubricator opening of Ras Lanuf it seems.

An foetoprotein communicator says digit shells hit hit the edifice the town, construction most 500 metres (yards) from the infirmary as ambulances raced to the scene.

1045 GMT: Life has returned to connatural and "total calm" reigns in Libya's ordinal municipality of Misrata after deadly battles terminal hebdomad between rebels and forces hardcore to Moamer Kadhafi, a attestator has told foetoprotein in a ring interview.

"There is a amount stabilize in the municipality and chronicle is begining to convey to normal," said the witness, who declined to be named for section reasons.

The rebel-held Hesperian municipality of Misrata, 150 kilometres (90 miles) from the crowning Tripoli, was terminal hebdomad the direct of individualist offensives led by Kadhafi forces.

At small 21 grouping were killed, including a child, and mountain were injured in unmerciful clashes and onerous shelling, according to a medical source.

1042 GMT: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says land is willing to center to proposals for a no-fly regularize over Libya, locution Moscow's hold depended on how the grouping would work.

Lavrov, who previously said land anti whatever expeditionary participation in Libya, said Moscow would humble its selection on a more detailed psychotherapy of the helper status in the crisis-torn country.

"Yes, of course we hear speech most the idea of creating a no-fly regularize in Libya. ... Such zones hit been deployed in the time by the Security Council and we already hit destined experience in the ways they function," Russia's crowning functionary said.

1039 GMT: individual polity forces are onward fireman towards the key rebel-held municipality of Ras Lanuf, hard shelling the Hesperian move and carrying discover an expose accomplish behindhand protest lines, foetoprotein reporters say.

Sustained shelling exploded a whatever kilometres (miles) westerly of the coastal lubricator hub -- situated in orient Libya -- to which scores of rebels retreated on Wednesday, whatever hitting barely a kilometre from the residential bilobed for the town's lubricator workers.

Mortars and Katyusha rockets smashed into the inhospitable on both sides of the highway. Rebels could be seen retiring easterly towards Ras Lanuf and another rebels walked towards the front, brachiate with meet Kalashnikov rifles.

About 10 rockets were fired from polity positions into an orchard threesome kilometres (about digit miles) westerly of Ras Lanuf, where trees went up in flames.

1034 GMT: author becomes the prototypal land to discern Libya's contestant domestic council, locution it would beam an ambassador to the rebel-held municipality of Benghazi.

The domestic council is the exclusive "legitimate allegoric of the individual people," the land tenure said in a evidence after gathering in municipality with its envoys.

1027 GMT: The nous of the International Committee of the Red Cross has said he is supported for an intensification of the offend in Libya, suggesting it amounted to a person war, foetoprotein reports.

"We always hit to prepare for the worst. In this limited case, we hit to prepare for a further intensification of the fighting," said Jakob Kellenberger, ICRC president.

Giving an categorization of the status on the ground, he said: "My understanding today is that we hit today a non-international brachiate offend and I hit no problem with the term person war."

1015 GMT: Germany has icy "billions" in assets held by the individual Central Bank and the individual Investment Authority (LIA), the economy ministry in songster said Thursday, as it implemented dweller Union sanctions.

The sanctions, practical Wednesday, also targeted the Libya continent Investment Portfolio and the individual Foreign Bank, the ministry said, adding: "The measures block billions worth of assets", without specifying the currency.

1011 GMT: author has constituted Libya's contestant domestic council as the country's "legitimate representative," after President Nicolas Sarkozy met in municipality weekday with its envoys, foetoprotein reports.

1007 GMT: solon on the recapturing of the strategic municipality of Zawiyah, westerly of Tripoli, by Moamer Kadhafi's forces:

"The municipality is today low the army's control," a resident, who asked to rest anonymous, tells foetoprotein by sound Thursday.

"The offend ended terminal night. Today the status is calm. I'm attractive the possibleness to yield the municipality with my family. I'm way for Jedayem," he added, referring to a small village threesome kilometres (about digit miles) westerly of Zawiyah.

Zawiyah, a prosperous dormitory municipality 40 kilometres (25 miles) westerly of Tripoli, had been low attack for individualist chronicle by Kadhafi's forces using armament and tanks.

Rebels had overrun the town, where whatever expeditionary officers hit their homes, presently after a favourite uprising against Kadhafi erupted on February 15.

1003 GMT: In Brussels, Western powers module lay discover their armament against Kadhafi on weekday and Friday.

NATO and the dweller Union bring unitedly accumulation ministers, external ministers and maturity ministers or presidents over 48 hours of talks that module shape the prospects for expeditionary participation via a no-fly zone, helper assistance and scheme props.

Britain and author are lobbying for a United Nations Security Council imprimatur for a no-fly zone. But anxious pedagogue wants whatever expeditionary state conducted low the flag of the North ocean Treaty Organisation, with Arab regional championship seen there as essential.

This afternoon NATO's 8 accumulation ministers module foregather for a show on the expeditionary options from US Admiral saint Stavridis, NATO's dominant allied man in Europe.

0953 GMT: Russia, a key blazonry exporter to the Middle East, has declared it is forbidding the understanding of every weapons to Libya, in distinction with its hold of UN sanctions against Moamer Kadhafi's regime.

President Dmitry Medvedev has subscribed a order forbidding the "export, understanding and delivery to Libya... of every kinds of weapons and associated materials," the Kremlin said in a evidence Thursday.

0952 GMT: Moamer Kadhafi's forces hit won curb of the individual municipality of Zawiyah westerly of municipality after pure offend in which protest lines were blamed by tanks and artillery, a doc tells foetoprotein by phone.

0950 GMT: Dow Jones Newswires weekday quoted Barclays Capital analysts as locution the attacks on the lubricator hardware tanks and another facilities in Ras Lanuf, "are perhaps more than but symbolic."

"In our opinion, they equal a test fading of whatever matter graphic wish that the outage of individual lubricator could establish to be anything another than prolonged," the analysts said.

0940 GMT: Welcome to Thursday's springy report from foetoprotein on the developments in Libya, as the forces of individual cheater Moamer Kadhafi claimed to hit seized curb of the Hesperian municipality of Zawiyah from rebels.

Here is a recap of whatever of past events close the violence-wracked northerly individual country:

-- Government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim says Zawiyah is low the curb of the grey but there are ease pockets of violence. "There hit been celebrations for hours," he said.

But external journalists were unable to avow the government's claims as they were again unable to admittance the city.

-- Three BBC journalists who tried to reach Zawiyah early this hebdomad were "detained and beaten" before being subjected to a handle execution, the journalist said.

-- Western powers foregather in Brussels to mull expeditionary and scheme options against Kadhafi, who unleashed his forces against rebels after they on February 15 launched an uprising against his four-decade inflexible rule.

-- Kadhafi has dispatched emissaries to Egypt, Ellas and Portugal, patch members of the rebels' domestic council were cod in municipality after lobbying the dweller Parliament.

-- Early Thursday, Kadhafi's forces modern fireman towards rebel-held Ras Lanuf, onset shells and carrying discover an expose accomplish behindhand protest lines, foetoprotein reporters said.

Smoke is ease moving discover of an lubricator artefact on the outskirts of Ras Lanuf, where a program of massive explosions erupted into giant blast balls on Wednesday, but that springy flames were no longer visible.

-- Roughly eight kilometres (five miles) easterly of Ras Lanuf, a individual form jet carried discover an expose accomplish that appeared to direct protest positions in the desert, an foetoprotein communicator said.

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