Libyan tanks fired on positions held by revolutionaries in the oil port of Ras Lanuf and warplanes hit another oil hub further east on Thursday as Muammar Gaddafi carried counter-attacks deeper into the insurgent heartland, as Washington expressed doubts
US Secretary of State says she will meet representatives of opposition council, as France recognises body as legitimate.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Egypt and Tunisia next week to press democratic reforms in the wake of rebellions that ousted the two countries' longtime autocratic rulers. She will be the first and most senior U.S. official t
Former interior minister, already in police custody, accused over deaths of scores of protesters during January revolt.
A US grand jury indicts 13 suspected pirates from Somalia and one from Yemen over the boat hijacking that left four Americans dead in February.
A bomb planted under an oil pipeline exploded in northern Iraq preventing the flow of thousands of barrels of oil, an Oil Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
Reporters from British and Brazilian newspapers covering fighting in Az Zawiyah have not been heard from since Sunday.