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| Libya crisis: Clinton tells allies to step up pressure | Libya crisis: Clinton tells allies to step up pressure |
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| US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged a group of Western and Arab powers to step up pressure to remove Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. | US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged a group of Western and Arab powers to step up pressure to remove Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. |
| "Time is on our side," she told a meeting of the Contact Group on Libya. "Gaddafi's days are numbered." | "Time is on our side," she told a meeting of the Contact Group on Libya. "Gaddafi's days are numbered." |
| The meeting in the United Arab Emirates is expected to firm up plans to set up a fund to help the Libyan rebels. | The meeting in the United Arab Emirates is expected to firm up plans to set up a fund to help the Libyan rebels. |
| Meanwhile Tripoli has denied allegations of war crimes made at a UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva. | Meanwhile Tripoli has denied allegations of war crimes made at a UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva. |
| Top officials from the Contact Group - which includes Britain, France and the US, as well as Arab allies Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar - are meeting in Abu Dhabi to prepare for the post-Gaddafi era in Libya. | Top officials from the Contact Group - which includes Britain, France and the US, as well as Arab allies Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar - are meeting in Abu Dhabi to prepare for the post-Gaddafi era in Libya. |
| At the start of the talks, Mrs Clinton said: "As time passes, maintaining our resolve and unity only grows more important. | At the start of the talks, Mrs Clinton said: "As time passes, maintaining our resolve and unity only grows more important. |
| "Alongside our military mission to protect the Libyan people, we must continue to escalate the political, diplomatic and financial pressure on Gaddafi and his regime. | "Alongside our military mission to protect the Libyan people, we must continue to escalate the political, diplomatic and financial pressure on Gaddafi and his regime. |
| "Time is on our side - but we know we must sustain the pressure. Gaddafi's isolation is growing, as evidenced by the increasing number of calls for his departure." | "Time is on our side - but we know we must sustain the pressure. Gaddafi's isolation is growing, as evidenced by the increasing number of calls for his departure." |
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| In Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council is debating a report on alleged human rights violations in Libya. | |
| The abuses include murder, torture, and indiscriminate attacks on civilians allegedly committed by pro-Gaddafi forces, as well as serious violations by rebel forces. | |
| Libyan diplomat Mustafa Shaban told members that his government was "the victim of a widespread aggression" and blamed the media, opposition and foreign mercenaries for human rights abuses, including "acts of cannibalism". | Libyan diplomat Mustafa Shaban told members that his government was "the victim of a widespread aggression" and blamed the media, opposition and foreign mercenaries for human rights abuses, including "acts of cannibalism". |
| In a separate development, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said there was evidence that Col Gaddafi had ordered the rape of hundreds of women as a weapon of war against rebel forces. | |
| He said he was looking into allegations that security forces had been given medication such as Viagra to enhance their sex drive. | |
| In March, a Libyan woman, Eman al-Obeidi, made headlines around the world after she burst into a Tripoli hotel and said she had been raped by pro-Gaddafi troops. She is recovering at a refugee centre in Romania. | |
| Testimony from captured Libyan soldiers that rape was used as a systematic weapon of war was taken by the BBC's Africa correspondent Andrew Harding in May. | |
| Meanwhile Nato has carried out further air strikes on government targets in Tripoli. At least two powerful explosions rocked the Libyan capital late on Wednesday. | |
| It was not immediately clear what was targeted in the air strike, but it reportedly hit an area close to Col Gaddafi's residence. | |
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