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Libye : la mort de Kadhafi à Syrte a été annoncée par le CNT. Le « Guide » libyen, au pouvoir plus de quarante ans, a été capturé ce jeudi dans sa ville natale de Syrte, à l’est de Tripoli ; vidéos (choquantes) à l’appui. Capture d’une vidéo amateur montrant Mouammar Kadhafi en sang (Esam Al-Fetori/Reuters) Fin de partie pour Kadhafi. Le Conseil national de transition libyen (CNT) a d’abord annoncé ce jeudi matin la capture du « Guide » après six semaines de cavale, avant d’annoncer sa mort, lors de la chute de Syrte, sa ville natale. C’est Abdel Hakim Majid, un chef militaire du CNT, qui a fait cette annonce. Les premières informations indiquaient que Kadhafi avait été simplement blessé aux deux jambes. Le dirigeant du CNT a indiqué que Kadhafi avait succombé à ses blessures. Dans la soirée, le CNT a annoncé que Kadhafi était mort en combattant, alors que les ex-rebelles donnaient l’assaut aux canalisation dans lesquelles il avait trouvé refuge.

Kadhafi a-t-il été lynché par la foule ? Un point final à la guerre La fin du tyran en photo et en vidéo. Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest - live updates | World news. 9.40am: Welcome to Middle East live as attention centres again on Libya, and the apparently swift advance of rebel forces towards the capital, Tripoli. It is, the rebels claim with a dramatic flourish, "zero hour" for the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi. Explosions and gunfire shook the city into Saturday night amid reports that anti-Gaddafi residents had taken up arms. While the fighting appeared to subside later, reports described four more loud blasts this morning. With the few foreign media in Tripoli confined by government minders to their hotel it was impossible to know how extensive the fighting was around the city.

A government spokesman claimed only a few "armed gangs" were at large. These had now been dealt with, Gaddafi himself said in an audio message broadcast on state TV this morning: Those rats ... were attacked by the masses tonight and we eliminated them. It is not known whether Gaddafi remains in Tripoli. The zero hour has started. Syria Israel and Gaza Photograph: EPA. Gaddafi 'funded Sarkozy': if true, this is a magnificent gift to Marine Le Pen. Did Sarko take the Mad Dog's money? (Photo: Reuters) Say what you like about Tony Blair’s Labour Party, but when you gave them large amounts of money, you usually got rewarded – with favourable tax changes, or titles, or just the chance to hang out with Tone. He didn’t take your money and then try to have you overthrown and killed and your Hampstead house taken over by squatters. The same cannot be said of Nicolas Sarkozy, however, if the claims in this report are true: Most politicians take money from dodgy individuals but, if this is what happened, it would be the seediest example yet – rendered even more seedy by the fact that Sarkozy then took the moral high ground when Gaddafi, hardly for the first time, started killing innocent people.

It wouldn't just be a cynical foreign policy; it would be a failed cynical foreign policy. And also a gift to Marine Le Pen, who is already second in opinion polls, ahead of the president. Libya 'no-fly' vote a significant moment for David Cameron | Politics. David Cameron will chair an emergency cabinet meeting and make a rare Friday Commons statement as he builds on the first major foreign policy triumph of his premiership.

The prime minister, who spoke to Barack Obama on Thursday about the forthcoming military campaign, ripped up his diary and abandoned a trip outside London to help lead a highly complex operation. British, US and French military aircraft are expected to fly the first missions to enforce the no-fly zone after Thursday night's vote at the UN in New York. Government sources insisted that there is no sense of triumphalism in Downing Street after the prime minister faced down sceptics and lobbied in favour of a new UN security council resolution in a joint campaign with Nicolas Sarkozy. "The prime minister is under no illusions about what military action will entail," one source said. "He did not enter lightly on a military course. " The unease voiced by Gates was shared in other capitals.

Suivez la situation en Libye en direct. Libya military action: live updates | World news. Time to wrap up this live blog for the evening, with a summary of the latest events. • At least 45 people appear to have been killed in Yemen after security forces – including some said to be snipers – opened fire in Sana'a. A government minister resigned and quit the ruling party of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. • President Obama warned in a televised statement supporting the UN resolution against Libya's Gaddafi regime: "Let me be clear: these terms are not negotiable. These terms are not subject to negotiation. " • Gaddafi's forces continue to close in on Benghazi, while fighting continued to be heard in and around Mizrata, despite statements by Libyan ministers saying that government forces were abiding by a ceasefire announced earlier. • In Bahrain the government ordered the destruction of the statue within Pearl Square that had been a symbol of protests in the Gulf state.

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