Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Russian investors are on the verge of buying a fleet of oil tankers from Libya


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Russian investors are on the verge of buying a fleet of oil tankers from Govt-owned General National Maritime Transport.
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4:00pm: Russian investors are on the verge of buying a fleet of oil tankers from Libya’s state-owned General National Maritime Transport, says a source close to the negotiations. GNMTC is under the control of Gaddafi’s son Hannibal. According to sources he spent recent weeks trying to sell the company, or its vessels, as part of a bid to settle debts and raise much-needed cash for the war ravaged regime.
3:30pm:The total number of refugees fleeing Libya’s turmoil has reached more than 650,000 over the past 45 days, according to an international report released Tuesday
3:00pm: Libya’s rebel government, the National Transitional Council (NTC), said its diplomats will move into the London today. Families of rebel civil war victims will hoist the red, black and green flag representing the Libyan rebel movement on Tuesday afternoon, the NTC said in an emailed statement.
2:00pm: Libyan authorities have accused NATO of a “massacre” of 85 civilians in the village of Majer, near the town of Zlitan on the rebel front line east of Tripoli, regime spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said on Tuesday. Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons, reporting from near Zlitan, could not confirm the report as true.
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