Libya Live Blog - May 4
As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the globe.
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(All times are local in Libya GMT+2)
5:03pm
Moreno-Ocampo said there was evidence that Gaddafi forces attacked unarmed civilians.
5:00pm
Moreno-Ocampo said there will be no immunity for Libyan leaders involved in commissioning crimes.
4:50pm
The ICC prosecutor said that he was also investigating the deaths of dozens of sub-Saharan Africans in the rebel capital of Benghazi by an "angry mob" who believed they were mercenaries for Gaddafi.
4:45pm
Moreno-Ocampo said the crimes such as the murder and persecution of civilians were still being carried out by Gaddafi's regime. He did not name the targets of the warrants he is calling for.
4:37pm
ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the UN Security Council that he will seek three arrest warrants for crimes against humanity in Libya.
4:30pm
ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said Gaddafi's soldiers committed crimes against humanity in #libya.
4:28pm
Luis Moreno Ocampo, ICC chief prosecutor says charges against Libyan government may include murder and unlawful detention, use of cluster bombs and rape as a weapon.
1:52pm
Jean-Philippe Chauzy, International Organisation for Migration spokesman, told AFP that Red Star One, the ship docked at the port of Misurata, was unloading 180 tonnes of relief aid supplies.
Chauzy also said that it would embark the migrants, mainly from Niger, who have been marooned in Misurata as well as about 40 Libyan civilians wounded in fighting for control of the city.
12:32pm
Reuters reports that a ship aiming to rescue 1,000 African and Asian migrant workers as well as people injured in fighting in the rebel-held Libyan port of Misurata docked there on Wednesday, the agency that chartered it said.
A spokeswoman for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said the vessel, the Red Star One, which had been waiting offshore since Saturday as Libyan government forces shelled the city, would soon start loading.
The spokeswoman said that the details of the ship's arrival in the port would be released later. Other rescue ships have been waiting offshore but there was no immediate news of their movements.
12:05pm
According to Reuters, securing financing for Libyan opposition rebels and facilitating contacts with defectors from Muammar Gaddafi's government will be the focus of Libya talks in Rome on Thursday, Alain Juppe, French foreign minister, said.
Juppe told France 24 television the meeting of the so-called "Contact Group" on Libya, including Western and Middle Eastern countries, the United Nations, the African Union and the Arab League, would discuss setting up a financing mechanism.
The rebel national council has said it hopes for as much as $3bn in credit from Western governments to help them meet pressing needs for food, medicine and state salaries.
Franco Frattini, Italian foreign minister, said last month the Rome talks would look at ways to free assets belonging to Gaddafi and enabling oil from rebel-held areas to be sold.
11:00am
Reuters reports: Libya's army fired volleys of rockets at the rebel-held town of Zintan in the Western Mountains.
Rebels said more than 40 Grad rockets hit Zintan late on Tuesday, and aid deliveries to the western port of Misurata were hindered by artillery fire and mines near the harbour entrance.
Rebel spokesmen said fighting had flared again in Misurata's eastern suburbs, but that intense air strikes by NATO planes appeared to have won the port, the city's lifeline, a respite in shelling by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
9:55am
According to AFP news agency, international forces are seeking to weaken but not to kill Muammar Gaddafi by bombarding his strategic sites, Alain Juppe, French foreign minister said on Wednesday.
"Our aim is not to kill Gaddafi," Juppe said on news channel France 24, describing as "collateral damage" the death of one of the ruler's sons in a recent NATO air strike.
"We are targeting military sites in Tripoli" in an attempt to weaken Gaddafi's regime, which is in a fierce fight against rebels who are recognised by France.
8:36am
Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says he will pursue up to five warrants over crimes against humanity committed against civilians.
Read our latest story: ICC finds evidence of crimes by Libyan regime
7:48am
The International Criminal Court says 327, 000 people have been displaced by the fighting inside Libya.
Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught reports from one refugee camp near the Tunisian border.
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(All times are local in Libya GMT+2)
5:03pm
Moreno-Ocampo said there was evidence that Gaddafi forces attacked unarmed civilians.
5:00pm
Moreno-Ocampo said there will be no immunity for Libyan leaders involved in commissioning crimes.
4:50pm
The ICC prosecutor said that he was also investigating the deaths of dozens of sub-Saharan Africans in the rebel capital of Benghazi by an "angry mob" who believed they were mercenaries for Gaddafi.
4:45pm
Moreno-Ocampo said the crimes such as the murder and persecution of civilians were still being carried out by Gaddafi's regime. He did not name the targets of the warrants he is calling for.
4:37pm
ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the UN Security Council that he will seek three arrest warrants for crimes against humanity in Libya.
4:30pm
ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said Gaddafi's soldiers committed crimes against humanity in #libya.
4:28pm
Luis Moreno Ocampo, ICC chief prosecutor says charges against Libyan government may include murder and unlawful detention, use of cluster bombs and rape as a weapon.
1:52pm
Jean-Philippe Chauzy, International Organisation for Migration spokesman, told AFP that Red Star One, the ship docked at the port of Misurata, was unloading 180 tonnes of relief aid supplies.
Chauzy also said that it would embark the migrants, mainly from Niger, who have been marooned in Misurata as well as about 40 Libyan civilians wounded in fighting for control of the city.
12:32pm
Reuters reports that a ship aiming to rescue 1,000 African and Asian migrant workers as well as people injured in fighting in the rebel-held Libyan port of Misurata docked there on Wednesday, the agency that chartered it said.
A spokeswoman for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said the vessel, the Red Star One, which had been waiting offshore since Saturday as Libyan government forces shelled the city, would soon start loading.
The spokeswoman said that the details of the ship's arrival in the port would be released later. Other rescue ships have been waiting offshore but there was no immediate news of their movements.
12:05pm
According to Reuters, securing financing for Libyan opposition rebels and facilitating contacts with defectors from Muammar Gaddafi's government will be the focus of Libya talks in Rome on Thursday, Alain Juppe, French foreign minister, said.
Juppe told France 24 television the meeting of the so-called "Contact Group" on Libya, including Western and Middle Eastern countries, the United Nations, the African Union and the Arab League, would discuss setting up a financing mechanism.
The rebel national council has said it hopes for as much as $3bn in credit from Western governments to help them meet pressing needs for food, medicine and state salaries.
Franco Frattini, Italian foreign minister, said last month the Rome talks would look at ways to free assets belonging to Gaddafi and enabling oil from rebel-held areas to be sold.
11:00am
Reuters reports: Libya's army fired volleys of rockets at the rebel-held town of Zintan in the Western Mountains.
Rebels said more than 40 Grad rockets hit Zintan late on Tuesday, and aid deliveries to the western port of Misurata were hindered by artillery fire and mines near the harbour entrance.
Rebel spokesmen said fighting had flared again in Misurata's eastern suburbs, but that intense air strikes by NATO planes appeared to have won the port, the city's lifeline, a respite in shelling by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
9:55am
According to AFP news agency, international forces are seeking to weaken but not to kill Muammar Gaddafi by bombarding his strategic sites, Alain Juppe, French foreign minister said on Wednesday.
"Our aim is not to kill Gaddafi," Juppe said on news channel France 24, describing as "collateral damage" the death of one of the ruler's sons in a recent NATO air strike.
"We are targeting military sites in Tripoli" in an attempt to weaken Gaddafi's regime, which is in a fierce fight against rebels who are recognised by France.
8:36am
Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says he will pursue up to five warrants over crimes against humanity committed against civilians.
Read our latest story: ICC finds evidence of crimes by Libyan regime
7:48am
The International Criminal Court says 327, 000 people have been displaced by the fighting inside Libya.
Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught reports from one refugee camp near the Tunisian border.
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