Key points
- Western forces have launched air and missile strikes on Libya as part of a UN-backed plan to establish a no-fly zone and prevent government attacks on civilians. The US said more than 100 cruise missiles were fired at air defence sites.
- The Libyan leader, Col Muammar Gaddafi, said the Mediterranean and North Africa had become a war zone. Civilians and military targets in the region would be in danger, he warned
- The speaker of the Libyan parliament said civilian areas had been targeted, and there had been casualties. A BBC correspondent in Tripoli said it was calm with traffic still on the streets
- Reports from Benghazi say rebels have regained control of the city after driving out Col Gaddafi's forces. Roads to the east are clogged with car loads of people fleeing
- US President Barack Obama said the US was part of a broad coalition to answer the calls of a threatened people. But he reiterated that the US would not deploy troops on the ground
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