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Islamists win most seats in Moroccan vote

Souhail Karam Reuters 11/27/2011
Islamists win most seats in Moroccan vote

Morocco's moderate Islamist PJD party won the most seats in the country's parliamentary election, final results showed Sunday, in the latest sign of a resurgence of faith-based movements since the Arab Spring uprisings.

Protesters in Egypt call on military to leave power

Several thousand protesters in Cairo called on the ruling military on Friday to promptly transfer power to a civilian government and exclude old regime figures from politics.

Gaddafi's driver on the endgame: 'He didn't seem to know what to do'

Huneish Nasr last saw the boss he served for 30 years standing in the ruins of Sirte looking confused as all hell broke loose around them.

Don't shoot! Muammar Gaddafi begged for his life after being dragged from a drain. Seconds later he was summarily executed

Colonel Gaddafi was executed by a frenzied mob of rebel fighters after pleading: 'Don't shoot, don't shoot!' The final humiliation for the man who had so brutally ruled Libya for 42 years came when he was hauled from his hiding place in a sewer. Shocking video clearly showed the broken 69-year-old tyrant was alive as fighters, waving their guns in the air, threw him on to the bonnet of a jeep.

Libya's rebels launch the final push for Sirte and their crowning victory

Libyan rebel forces launched a furious 'final offensive' on the loyalist stronghold Sirte on Friday, battling to clear the city of men fighting for the former regime.

Libya's National Transitional Council may delay forming gov't again - source

Senior members of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) are leaning towards putting plans for a new caretaker government on hold because they cannot agree on a line-up, a source close to the council told Reuters on Sunday.

Libyans fail to agree new government

Emma Farge and Maria Golovnina Reuters 09/18/2011

Libya could fall into hands of extremists, Nato warns

Thomas Harding, Ruth Sherlock, Richard Spencer Telegraph 09/12/2011
Libyans fail to agree new government

Libya's interim leaders failed to agree a new cabinet on Sunday and the forces that forced Muammar Gaddafi from power remained bogged down in fighting with troops loyal to the former ruler.

Libya could fall into hands of extremists, Nato warns

Libya is in danger of falling into the hands of Islamic extremists if a stable government is not rapidly established, Nato’s secretary-general warned last night.

Libya fighters' push stalled by Gadhafi troops

HADEEL AL-SHALCHI and KARIN LAUB AP 09/11/2011
Egypt's military rulers ignored pleas from US as mob attacked Israeli embassy

Egypt's military leaders have been accused of turning a blind eye to the mob attack on Israel's Cairo embassy at the weekend as it emerged that they ignored repeated telephone calls from the Obama administration.

Libya fighters' push stalled by Gadhafi troops

Fierce resistance by Moammar Gadhafi loyalists entrenched in two strongholds has stalled the rebels' final push for complete control over Libya.


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