Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 3:01:00 PM CET
UPDATE 3-Austria orders freeze on Libya money manager assets
* Wealth fund deputy head Zarti added to blacklist
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Friend of Gaddafi's son, holds Austrian passport
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Authorities to question Zarti on Friday
(Adds interior ministry comments, Zarti on radio)
VIENNA, March 4 (Reuters) - Austria widened an asset freeze list on Friday to include a top official at the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) and said it would question him about possible links to Muammar Gaddafi's inner circle.
The move against LIA deputy chief Mustafa Zarti, who has an Austrian passport, follows international sanctions on Gaddafi's family and associates.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 1:16:00 PM CET
Checkpoints set up to stop protesters coming into Tripoli
14:03 - Checkpoints have been set up by Gaddafi’s security forces on the coastal road leading to Tripoli in the are of Tajoura. All times are in Libyan local time +2 GMT
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 12:59:00 PM CET
friday prayers looks finished
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 12:30:00 PM CET
Gaddafi base Tripoli tense before Friday prayers
Embattled Libyan ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi's bastion in Tripoli is on edge amid opposition calls for protests after Friday noon prayers.
Forces loyal to Col Gaddafi have set up checkpoints in a flashpoint area of the capital, while foreign journalists were barred from leaving their hotel.
Government forces have launched new air strikes on rebel territory in the east.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 12:23:00 PM CET
If you can not reach people in Tripoli, this is because all communications are cut ahead of planned protests in the next hour
Tripoli: reporters are not allowed to leave hotel ahead of expected protests, all coms and net down in the city
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Topic: ART - on March 4, 2011 at 11:03:00 AM CET
Art & Agenda: Political Artbook
Alain hat auf Rebelart grade sein erstes Buch angekündigt, erscheint in ein paar Wochen im Gestaltenverlag und handelt von politischer Kunst. Sieht genauso aus wie etwas, das ich mir unbedingt ins Regal stellen muss.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 10:59:00 AM CET
Oil prices rise again on further Libyan fighting
Oil prices rose more than a dollar this morning as fighting in Libya intensified.
Brent crude climbed as high as $116.20 a barrel, up over 1%, amid fears that the crisis could spread from North Africa to oil-rich countries in the Gulf. A Libyan warplane dropped bombs just beyond the walls of a military base held by rebels in the eastern town of Ajdabiyah but did not hit it, Reuters reported.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 10:27:00 AM CET
Some would think otherwise. How about cutting aid to countries who send mercs?
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 9:49:00 AM CET
Audio: Libya Bloody Libya tells the news in a U2-way
Dedicated to the people of Libya, fighting for democracy and freedom.Spread this audio, spread the message of peace, freedom and democracy.Spread the human rights.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 9:30:00 AM CET
Elfenbeinküste: Sorge vor neuem Bürgerkrieg
Der UNO-Sicherheitsrat hat seine Besorgnis über ein „Wiederaufflammen des Bürgerkriegs“ in der Elfenbeinküste geäußert. Das Gremium verurteilte gestern „Drohungen, Zerstörungen und sinnlose Gewalt“ und rief alle Parteien zur Zurückhaltung auf.
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2011 at 9:26:00 AM CET
Ivory Coast president cuts off power and water to north
Millions of people in rebel-controlled region left without vital supplies as country moves towards civil war
The Ivory Coast president, Laurent Gbagbo, has cut off electricity and water supplies to millions of people in the north of the country "for political reasons", the UN has said.
The national power company reported that armed men entered its buildings on Monday night and ordered the shutdown, the latest step in an increasingly violent move towards civil war.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 4, 2011 at 9:05:00 AM CET
there are no tribes in Libya neither a civil war, there are Anti-Gaddafi & Pro-Gaddafi. that's all.
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