Four Republican senators traveled to #Libya on Thursday to meet with the NTC, Interpol has issued an arrest notice for Saadi Gaddafi

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Four Republican senators traveled to #Libya on Thursday to meet with the NTC feb17.info/live-libya-unr…

LIVE Libyan Unrest: Interpol has issued an arrest notice for Saadi Gaddafi for alleged crimes during his time at the head of Libya’s football federation.

3:00pm: Forces of Libya’s interim government have captured the airport in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, one of two main remaining bastions of support for the deposed leader, Reuters journalists at the scene said. Watch a video report here.

2:30pm: Libya’s interim government has asked the United Nations for fuel for ambulances to evacuate wounded from the besieged city of Sirte, a U.N. source in Libya said on Thursday.

2:00pm: Interpol has released a Red Notice for Al-Saadi Gaddafi, one of the sons of the deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who fled to Niger two weeks ago. He is accused of corruption and armed intimidation.

1:00pm: Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado says she is donating $1 million to the Free the Children charity  from the $1 million she was paid to perform at a private concert. In February, Furtado said she would donate to charity the $1 million she was paid to perform in Italy for members of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s family in 2007

12:35pm: Ibn Thabit (Tripoli) and MC SWAT (Benghazi) got together one evening and recorded a song…this is it, over a Tupac beat.

12:25pm: Tunisian prosecutors have received a request from the new Libyan authorities to extradite Muammar Gaddafi’s former prime minister, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, and are therefore keeping him in jail, Mahmoudi’s lawyer said on Thursday.

“The prosecutor-general has decided to keep Mahmoudi in prison after receiving a request to extradite him to Libya,” his lawyer, Mabrouk Korchid, told Reuters.

A Tunisian court sentenced Mahmoudi to six months in jail for entering the country illegally, but an appeal court later overturned this and ordered his release.

12:23pm: Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Taha is expected to meet Thursday in Tripoli with leaders of Libya’s interim government.

It will be the highest level meeting between the two countries since the fall of former leader Moammar Gadhafi. Sudan, whose foreign minister visited Libya in August, is eager to develop positive diplomatic relations with Libya’s Transitional National Council.

Relations between Sudan and Mr. Gadhafi were strained, with Khartoum accusing the ousted Libyan leader of supporting rebel groups in Darfur in an effort to expand his influence in the region.

The Sudanese government reportedly provided military support to anti-Gadhafi forces during earlier stages of Libya’s civil war.

12:16pm: Four Republican senators traveled to Libya on Thursday to meet with the nation’s new rulers, the highest-profile American delegation to visit the country since the ouster of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.

The four lawmakers — John McCain of Arizona, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida — planned to meet with members of the National Transitional Council, which is now governing Libya after the rebels forced Gadhafi from power. Gadhafi’s whereabouts remain unknown, but the new leaders suspect he is hiding in the southern desert of the North African nation.

The senators, whose brief visit was largely shrouded in secrecy, also planned to tour Martyrs’ Square and hold a news conference with reporters. They traveled from Malta, where they met with Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi on Wednesday. Read more here.

11:26am: World police body Interpol has issued an arrest notice for Saadi Gaddafi for alleged crimes during his time at the head of Libya’s football federation. Libyan rebel authorities requested the notice against the fallen Libyan leader’s son, believed to be in Niger, ‘for allegedly misappropriating properties through force and armed intimidation when he headed the Libyan Football Federation,’ Interpol said in a statement on Thursday.

9:26am: NATO Key Hits September 28, 2011: In the vicinity of Sirte: 1 ammunition / vehicle storage facility, 1 staging and firing location, 1 command and control node and staging area, 2 ammunition and missile facilities, 1 tank. Read full report here.

8:30am: Libya has issued a summons for Muammar Qaddafi’s former Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, who fled the country for neighboring Tunisia, the interim justice minister said Wednesday.

“The prosecutor general has issued a summons for former Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi,” the minister, Mohammed al-Alagi, told a news conference in Tripoli. 

Mahmudi, Libya’s prime minister until the last days of Qaddafi’s regime, was arrested last week on Tunisia’s southwestern border with Algeria. A Tunisian court swiftly sentenced him to six months in prison after finding him guilty of illegal entry, but that decision was overruled on Tuesday by a higher court following an appeal by his lawyers.

Mahmudi’s arrest was the second in Tunisia of a senior Libyan official since the fall of the regime run by Qaddafi, who has been on the run since Libyan rebels took the capital Tripoli on August 23.