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Moammar Gadhafi's forces rocketed rebel fighters Thursday in the formidable strongholds and training camps they have built up in the strategic ...

Taking control of the airport in Libya’s third-largest city would be one of the most significant rebel victories in the conflict.

France and Britain said NATO should be doing more to pressure the Libyan regime. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said the alliance should be firing on the weapons being used by Gadhafi’s troops to target civilians in Misrata.

Soldiers firing automatic weapons and concussion grenades rescue President Rafael Correa from a hospital where he was trapped for more than 12 hours by police rebelling over benefit cuts.

The Tamil Tiger rebels admitted defeat in their 25-year-old war with the Sri Lankan government today, offering to lay down their guns as government forces swept across their last strongholds in the northeast.