Tag: Muammar Gaddafi

• Wednesday, March 16th 2011 - 05:58 UTC

  Gaddafi ever more confident he can defeat Benghazi ‘dogs and traitors’

  

  Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi appeared at a Tuesday evening rally in a huge tent in Tripoli, condemning the rebels as rats, dogs, hypocrites and traitors. As he spoke, thousands gathered in a Benghazi square denouncing him as a tyrant and throwing shoes and other objects at his image projected upside down on a wall.

• Saturday, March 12th 2011 - 23:26 UTC

  Arab League calls on UN Security Council for a no-fly zone over Libya

  

  The Arab League threw its support behind calls for a no-fly zone over Libya on Saturday as the Libyan military closed in on the opposition. The League urged on Saturday the United Nations to close Libyan airspace, as forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continued using war planes to bombard the country's rebels.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 05:22 UTC

  Oil prices ease as OPEC begins talks to increase output replacing Libya

  

  Oil dropped for a second day in New York as members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries considered talks about increasing production because violence is disrupting supplies from Libya.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2011 - 04:58 UTC

  Refuge crisis in Libya: over a million people fleeing says UN

  

  More than one million people fleeing Libya and inside the country need humanitarian aid, the United Nations said on Monday. The figures were issued by the world body's aid coordinator Valerie Amos as a refugee crisis built up around the borders of the North African country where a rebellion broke out last month against the 42-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 06:09 UTC

  “Revulsion against corruption” partly sparked Libyan revolution, says Soros

  

  Citizens of oil producing nations must see more benefit from their country's national resources, billionaire investor said George Soros interviewed by the BBC. Revolts in Libya were partly the result of “revulsion against a corruption” fed by the misuse of oil money, he added.

• Thursday, March 3rd 2011 - 06:12 UTC

  Venezuelan president proposes peace commission to mediate in Libyan conflict

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez spoke with embattled strongman Moammar Gaddafi and discussed creating a multinational commission to mediate the unrest in Libya, according to an internet message posted Wednesday by a Venezuelan government official.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2011 - 06:24 UTC

  UN appeals for aid to address humanitarian situation at Libyan/Tunisia border

  

  The UN has called for a mass humanitarian evacuation of people fleeing Libya for Tunisia, saying the border situation is at “crisis point”. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said thousands of lives were at stake. Some 75,000 people have fled to Tunisia since unrest began and 40,000 more are waiting to cross, the UN says.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2011 - 06:25 UTC

  Most Libyan oilfields no longer under control of Gadaffi

  

  Most of Libya's oilfields are no longer under control of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the European Union's energy commissioner said on Monday.

• Thursday, February 24th 2011 - 16:51 UTC

  Gadaffi on state TV by phone call blames Bin Laden for the protests

  

  Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has told state TV that Osama Bin Laden and his followers are to blame for the protests wracking his country.

• Thursday, February 24th 2011 - 00:12 UTC

  Libya: Peru cuts links; Cuba, Venezuela support Gadaffi, blame “imperialist states”

  

  Peru announced it has suspended diplomatic relations with Libya over the use of force against civilians there. It is the first country to take such a step since the anti-government protests erupted in Libya last week.