Defiant Gaddafi Vows To Die As Martyr -- Yahoo News/Reuters
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A defiant Muammar Gaddafi vowed on Tuesday to die "a martyr" in Libya and said he would crush a revolt which has seen eastern regions break free from four decades of his rule.
Swathed in brown robes, Gaddafi seethed with anger and banged the podium outside one of his residences that was damaged in a 1986 U.S. bombing raid that attempted to kill him. Next to him stood a monument of a fist crushing a U.S. fighter jet.
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Medvedev sees `fires for decades' in Arab world.
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ASIA
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AFRICA
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Amnesty reports on Ivory Coast abuses.
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EUROPE
EU border agency to help Italy stem migrant flow.
Europe's Arab youth question prospects for revolution in ancestral homelands.
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AMERICAS
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U.S. home prices hit post-bust lows in most big cities.
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