LIBYA

A journalist films from the roof of a hotel as smoke rises in the sky in Tripoli

NATO air strikes targets Gaddafi compound

Low-flying NATO jets have reportedly conducted a rare daytime bombing campaign on Tripoli, Libya, setting off huge explosions and also striking the military barracks and compound of Moammar Gaddafi.
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UK Foreign Secretary Meets With Libyan Rebels

The British Foreign Secretary William Hague has visited with Libyan rebel groups in the eastern part of the country in a bid to support and uphold the opposition movement seeking to remove Moammar Gaddafi from power.
Call for vigilante for Obama administration and NATO

LulzSec keeps busy: FBI affiliate agency hacked; NATO, Obama administration threatened

In an apparent protest against the NATO and Obama administration, the LulzSec group announced the breach of FBI affiliate website, the Atlanta chapter of Infragard. The group raised claims that they have taken “complete control” over the website and has “defaced it”. They also announced that the data including passwords obtained from infragardatlanta.org would prove useful for them to hack into other FBI affiliates, since a lot of users tend to reuse their passwords even though the practice is ...
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Output increase in the air as OPEC tackles turmoil

OPEC could next week agree its first formal increase in supply targets since 2007 when it meets to hammer out its response to Arab world turmoil, extreme market volatility and pressure from the West for action.
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Bomb blast rocks Libya's rebel-held Benghazi

At least one person was wounded when a blast hit a hotel used by rebels and foreigners in Libya's rebel-controlled eastern city of Benghazi on Wednesday, a Reuters report said.

Clinton to discuss Libya with allies next week

United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton will attend an international meeting next week to talk about the situation in Libya, as NATO seeks to accelerate the campaign to end his rule.
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Goldman traded $1.3 billion in Libyan funds: report

Goldman Sachs invested more than $1.3 billion from Libya's sovereign-wealth fund in currency bets and other trades in 2008 and the investment lost more than 98 percent of its value, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing internal Goldman documents.

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