Libya: Tunisia indignant over border clashes - BBC News

April 29, 2011, last updated at 02: 06 GMT thousands fled fighting near the border between the Libya and the Tunisia Tunisia sentenced a violation of its territory after fighting between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and rebel Libyan spill across the border.

Tunisia said that he advised the Libya of its "extreme indignation".

Rebels and pro-Gaddafi troops are fighting for control of the border post between Dahiba and Wazzan, which rebels captured a week ago.

Shells fired by the pro-Gaddafi forces are supposed to have landed in the Tunisia.

Government troops apologized to their Tunisian counterparts after briefly crossing the border, the Reuters news agency reported.

But the Tunisian authorities warned of a "dangerous military escalation."

"Shots fired in an area populated the Tunisian territory (are) a violation of the territorial integrity of the Tunisia and a violation of the security of the inhabitants of this region", said a statement by the Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Considering the gravity of what is arrived... the Tunisian authorities informed the Libyans of their extreme outrage and measures of the request to put an end immediately to these violations."

Bombing of Misrata

Fighting in the West of the Libya, near the border with the Tunisia, have intensified these last days.

Rebels seized the border post, a week ago, and pro-Government forces have attempted to resume.

Thousands of people have fled from Libya across the border to flee the violence.

In addition, there are reports that Government troops had resumed the town of Kufra South after violent clashes.

In the capital, Tripoli, at least two loud explosions were heard late Thursday, as NATO planes flew above.

And in the town of Misrata reported rebel West continues bombardments by the forces of pro-Gaddafi.

The town held the rebels has been besieged by forces loyal to Col. Gaddafi for several weeks.

These forces have retreated from the centre of Misrata, but the rebels say they are shelling of residential areas of the periphery.

Earlier, rebel a commander and witnesses told journalists one than an air strike by NATO in Misrata on Wednesday killed at least 11 rebels.

A NATO official confirmed alliance aircraft struck "a number of combat vehicles 10 miles southeast of port Misrata", adding that NATO could not "to verify the reports that these vehicles have been exploited by the opposition forces."

He said that no there was no NATO attack on any building around Misrata.

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90 killed, 80 wounded in clashes in Syria - Xinhua

(BEIJING, April 23, Xinhuanet.com) - in Syria, where an organization for the rights of man said at least 90 civilians were killed by security forces in the biggest protests so far against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

Another 80 people were injured during clashes. Demonstrators also seek the release of political prisoners and the dismantling of the security services.

It was the day the most bloody in a month of escalating demonstrations.

Tens of thousands of people took the streets of cities across the Syria Friday to call for the current President Bashar al-Assad to resign. Although he had lifted just the emergency of old law half a century, demonstrators were not appease. They are demanding more reforms and freedoms more in the countries of Western Asia.

Syrian State television showed protests in several cities with anchors news indicating events were "peaceful". But an anonymous fireman in the capital of the city of Damascus said that fire stations were attacked by demonstrators. It seems that his fire engine were severely damaged.

Firefighter identified, said, "Shooting proved that people ask not of freedom." They seek damages, destruction of the country. ":

However, video amatuer posted on a social Web site has shown yet another facet of the story. In this document, the demonstrators are seen joining the sound of gunfire in the cities of Homs and Damascus.

Neither account could be independently confirmed.

Friday violence brings the number of deaths at about 300, since unrest broke out in March in South Syria.

(Source: CNTV.cn)

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