World News Briefs -- October 23, 2011

Sunday, October 23, 2011




New Leadership To Declare National Liberation In Libya -- BBC

The new government in Libya is poised to formally declare national liberation, days after the killing of former leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

A ceremony is to be held in Benghazi, where the National Transitional Council (NTC) had its headquarters during the war to end Gaddafi's 42-year rule.

His capture and death on Thursday came as Nato-backed NTC forces pursued loyalists in his stronghold, Sirte.

The NTC has come under pressure to investigate how he died.

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