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While visiting Libya, Italian PM Giorgia Meloni is looking to sign a deal for natural gas supplies and is concerned about migration.

Declaring a force majeure allows the company to exonerate itself from its legal responsibility towards its clients. The move also dampens hopes of a massive resumption of production. Libyas national budget has been slowed to a vote, and was rejected on Tuesday by the House of Representatives. The same chamber had given its confidence to the new national unity government last month. It now has 10 days to revise and propose a new budget. The development further compounds the long-standing feud be...

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Come to meineke now for a free code scan read and youll say... my money. my choice. my meineke. now some of todays international headlines, there are reports of heavy shelling in misrata, libya, just hours after muammar gadhafis forces announced they are withdrawing. he was accused of playing dirty games. there are more reports in yemen today after reports that their president has agreed to step down within 30 days. the deal was brokered by other persian gulf nations, but protestors say asala ...

Communi communion. he has the mental capacity of a six-year-old, and apparently the priest denied him communion because he doesnt have sufficient knowledge of christ. the boys family believes he is being discriminated against because he has special needs. congressional leaders want more pressure put on tripoli to stop the bloodshed in libya. with the number of casualties growing, some say its time for nato to go after muammar gadhafis inner circle. listen to what lindsey graham and joe lieberm...

In yemen, there have been terrorist attacks planned against the united states. so the u.s. is really hoping that this transition in yemen, that its finally come around to the fact that president sala looks like he is going to go. they want to see if they can manage it so that counter-terrorism cooperation doesnt get interrupted. >> so it sounds like the u.s. is really complicated here about what to address first. does it also have something to do with the u.s. waiting to see what other country m...

Right now? >> i think there is different levels of concern for different reasons. libya, there are u.s. troops involved, so theyre concerned about the military and theyre also concerned about the lives facing muammar gadhafi. but as we heard, even from secretary gates, libya is not vital to the united states, and some say as libya goes, so does libya. these other issues like syria and yemen, far more u.s. security interests. youve heard the response about getting rid of president asad, whether t...

Thing survive is to put pressure on tripoli. the military commanders in tripoli supporting gadhafi should be pounded. i would not let the u.n. mandate stop what is the right thing to do. >> i think every time we pull back, it says to gadhafi that he can tough this out, and i want him to feel that were just going to squeeze and squeeze until he decides its time to go, because thats the only end that will be meaningful here. >> all right, so its not just libya. take a look right here. syria and ye...

To go into libya, and they think its healthy for the europeans to see what its like to lead. the u.s. is leading in iraq, the u.s. is leading in afghanistan, and the rest of the world knows if theyre not going to pick up the slack, the u.s. is going to do it. the u.s. is saying, okay, you try to see what its like to be a leader. >> so does this say something about the u.s.s white house strategy on foreign policy, or is this really a result of a ripple effect? you have problems in one country in ...

But the story is much, much bigger. what we think, anderson, is that international communitys reaction towards whats happening in libya has not been very honest and transparent. the security council, for example, anderson, based its agreement against libya on reports without -- anderson, you have to look at this very carefully, without any fact finding mission, without visiting libya, without allowing libya to defend itself in the u.n., and the guy who is supposed to be the lawyer of libya was g...