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| By Al Jazeera Staff in | on February 23rd, 2011. |
As the uprising in Libya enters its tenth day, we keep you updated on the developing situation from our headquarters in Doha, Qatar.
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(All times are local in Libya GMT+2)
February 24, 2011
4:27am: Twitter user @rutevera posted this to Twitpic:
4:18am: According to some bloggers, a protest has been planned outside Libyan Embassy in London from 1400 to 1800 [GMT].
4:17am: Benghazi, eastern Libya's biggest town, refused orders from power controllers in Tripoli to cut the power.
3:30am: In an interview to Democracy Now website, Libyan American activist Abdulla Darrat says:
It really shows what over the last 40 years has become a country dominated by the megalomania of this one human being [Gaddafi], who cares more for his self and his power than he cares for anybody in Libya.
2:17am: Abdul Rahman Shalgum, head of the Libyan mission to the UN, has said the situation in his country is very dangerous. Addressing Libyan leader as brother, he said Libya is bigger than all of us.
The Libyan diplomat said:
The nation is bigger, stronger and greater than us all. Our nation is in danger. The brother leader [Gaddafi] can take a decision that saves and salvages the country and stops the bloodshed. Libya now has entered a very dangerous tunnel.
1:48am: Aisha, Gaddafi's daughter, has appeared on state television, denying a report she tried to flee to Malta. "I am steadfastly here," she said. She added she was unaware of a report she had been dropped by the United Nations as a goodwill ambassador.
1:14: In the eastern city of Benghazi, cradle of the uprising and home to tribes long hostile to Gaddafi, thousands filled the streets, lighting fireworks and waving the red, black and green flag of the king Colonel Muammar Gaddafi overthrew in 1969, accoding to Reuters news agency.
1:31am: The U.N. Development Program has dropped Libyan leader's Muammar Gaddafi's daughter as a goodwill ambassador.
1:24am: According to Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's political analysts, the Libyan leader has lost all three pillars of his rule - tribal, military and diplomatic. Judging from his desperate speech last night, he seems to be losing his mind and perhaps his nerves.
1:14am: Gaddafi vows to fight till his 'last drop of blood,' urges supporters to take to streets.
12:30am: Obama said on Wednesday, he would send Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Geneva for a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council at the weekend and for talks with allied foreign ministers.
12:15am: Obama said:
It is imperative that the nations and peoples of the world speak with one voice.
12:07am: Barack Obama, the US president, for the first time has spoken on the Libyan crisis. He offered his condolences to the people who have been killed and suffered in the violence during the Libyan uprising.
He said that the suffering and bloodshed is "outrageous" and it is "unacceptable". The U.S. president on Wednesday said the violent crackdown in Libya violated international norms and that he had ordered his national security team to prepare the full range of options for dealing with the crisis.12.05am: Late on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke at a press conference, calling for unity in the international community to ensure a "prompt and peaceful transition'' in Libya.
12.01am US president Barack Obama will speak publicly at 22.15GMT (12.15am Libyan local time).
Watch Al Jazeera's Live coverage here.
12.00am: We continue our Live blog from Feb 23 here.
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