Reply #88: "Good morning. A quick catch-up on Libya:"

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From The Guardian's News Blog...

8.44am:

Good morning. A quick catch-up on Libya:

• The Gaddafi regime has issued a defiant warning that the "time for action" had arrived as a sustained military assault forced the defeat of Libyan rebels in the strategically important town of Zawiya and their retreat from Ras Lanuf.

• Squabbling continues between EU and Nato members over the best way to tackle the crisis: Britain and France are pressing for the imposition of a no-fly zone; the US and Germany are opposing it.

• EU leaders are today set to demand that Gaddafi gives up power in Libya with immediate effect. A draft declaration for approval at an emergency summit in Brussels today declares that "Colonel Gaddafi must relinquish power immediately" and says the objective is for Libya to "rapidly embark on an orderly transition to democracy".


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/mar/11/libya-gaddafi-uprising?intcmp=239