Here's an evening summary:
• Further air strikes have been reported today, as rebels continue to clash with pro-Gaddafi forces. Ras Lanuf was reportedly targeted by an air strike, while Swiss-based exile group Libyan Human Rights Solidarity said forces loyal to Gaddafi had launched a new attempt to capture Zawiyah, a rebel-held town 50 km (30 miles) west of the capital. In the rebel-held city of Misrata – the biggest city in the west the wounded were being treated on hospital floors because of a catastrophic shortage of medical facilities in the besieged city, a resident said.
• William Hague has said that he takes "full responsibility" for the decision to order the mission that led to MI6 officers and SAS soldiers being detained in Libya. Andrew Sparrow reported that "in a Commons appearance that saw him being ridiculed by his Labour opposite number, Douglas Alexander, Hague offered little fresh information about the botched mission and padded out his statement with a general update about the situation in the Middle East". Andrew reported that Hague said a "serious misunderstanding" had led to the MI6/SAS team being detained.
• The UN has claimed up to 1 million foreign workers and others trapped in Libya are expected to need emergency aid because of fighting in the North African nation. It is seeking $160 million to deal with the crisis for the next three months, but officials said they expected the crisis to go on longer. "This appeal is based on a planning scenario projecting up to 400,000 people leaving Libya including the 200,000 who have left to date and another 600,000 people inside Libya expected to need humanitarian aid," said Valerie Amos, the U.N.'s humanitarian and emergency coordination chief.
The Guardian's Middle East editor Ian Black assesses the current situation in Libya, how the international community will respond - and the bungled SAS mission to contact the rebels:
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