Libya update

Refugees that reached the Tunisian border say that fighting over control of the western Libyan town of Zawiyah remains fierce, even as state television claimed that residents marched in support of Moamer Kadhafi.

"The revolutionaries control the centre of Zawiyah and Kadhafi's forces are surrounding it. It's 50-50," a long-term Moroccan resident told AFP after crossing the border into Tunisia.
A government-sponsored trip to Zawiyah for Tripoli-based journalists, who have been repeatedly turned away in efforts to reach there in previous days, was announced then cancelled without explanation.

Nicolas Sarkozy will meet with envoys of Libya's rebel national council on Thursday, the French president's office says.
In an earlier interview aired by France's LCI television channel, Kadhafi accused Western countries, especially France, of plotting to "colonise" his oil-rich nation.

The heir apparent to Libya's Western-backed monarchy, which Moamer Kadhafi overthrew in 1969, urges the international community to do more to help rid his nation of the strongman.
Speaking from his home in London, where he has lived in exile since 1988, Muhammad al-Senussi hails as "heroes" the rebels fighting deadly battles against regime forces but says their situation was fast deteriorating.
"The murderous regime under Kadhafi continues to use air power and heavy weapons with vicious brutality against the Libyan people but the international community is saying a lot and doing nothing. We need less talk and more action," he said.