Libya updates via Al-Jazeera

• AFP reports: Attacks against civilians in Libya may amount to "crimes against humanity", making it diifficult for the world to stand "idly by", NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.
  
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  2:31pm

  AFP reports: Twenty-one people, including a child, were killed and dozens wounded in Libya's rebel-held city of Misrata during clashes and shelling by Moamer Kadhafi's forces on Sunday, a doctor said.
  
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  2:11am

  Al Jazeera bring you the latest on the fierce fighting in Libya, as it rages on.
  
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  2:02pm

  Abdel Basset Abu Zouriq, a spokesperson of the opposition, told Al Jazeera on Monday that Misurata was still under control of opposition forces.
  

  Pro-Gaddafi forces are still somewhere outside the city, regrouping for future attacks.

  He said that the city was anti-Gaddafi in general and so government forces could only attack the city or invade it for few hours and then withdraw.
  
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  12:58pm

  The United Nations called Monday for $160 million (114 million euros) to cover the needs of those who have fled Libya as well as others who remained trapped in the strife-torn north African country.
  
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  12:32pm

  Opposition forces and civilians injured in attacks were rushed to the hospital in Ras Lanuf.
  Reporters had evacuated Ras Lanuf's main hotel before dawn on Monday after staff warned they could not guarantee their safety, and came across only a small number of visibly agitated rebels at two checkpoints en route out of the oil port to the east.
  Some reporters returned, but hotel staff had not.
  
  
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  12:26pm

  Gaddafi says that Libya plays a vital role in keeping sub-Saharan Africans from entering Europe illegally.
  Libya is an important partner for the West in containing al Qaeda and illegal migrants trying to reach Europe, Gaddafi said on Monday. Gaddafi, in an interview with France 24 television station.
  He also said the international media had created a distorted image of the violence in Libya over the past few weeks.
  
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  12:20pm

  Under unprecedented fire from tanks, artillery, military jets, and helicopter, opposition forces, armed with light arms and some air defense weaponry, had to withdraw from Bin Jawad. Some of them describe what happened in the city as "actual horror".
  Reports said pro-Gaddafi forces were hiding inside residential homes and attacking opposition forces as well as civilians from there.