The leader of Libya's National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, has said the opposition leadership will move from its present seat in the city of Benghazi to the capital Tripoli next week. He was speaking at the airport in Benghazi on his return from a conference on Libya. Jon Leyne reports from Benghazi.
For the first time after his many travels, the opposition leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil received a formal red-carpet welcome at Benghazi airport. Members of the opposition leadership, military officers and tribal leaders
lined up
to congratulate him on securing a commitment to continued Nato support and the unfreezing of a third of Libya's foreign assets. Mustafa Abdul Jalil then announced that he would be moving to Tripoli along with the rest of the opposition leadership sometime next week.
That's the moment the opposition will probably formally declare themselves the new government - a moment of huge significance in Libyan history.
Turkey has expelled the Israeli ambassador and suspended all military agreements with Israel. The move follows the leak of a UN report which says the Israeli military used
excessive
force when it raided a flotilla heading for Gaza last year. Nine Turkish activists were killed. The report said that although the Israeli commandos used unreasonable force, they had acted in self-defence.
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The authorities in Colombia have arrested more than 30 people in two operations against the illegal drugs trade. The country's president said they are suspected of exporting cocaine to the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico and are wanted in the United States. The authorities