If it is confirmed that the oil minister has gone, it's going to raise those concerns again that more of Colonel Gaddafi's supporters might desert him and of course, that is something we've seen a lot of

during the course of

this uprising. I mean, if you are remember, in the opening weeks, a whole

raft

of Libyan diplomats around the world defected, and I think that's certainly the hope that NATO and Western governments have that, if they can increase the pressure, they can persuade more to go and they are also now putting more pressure on Colonel Gaddafi's military.

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Police in southeastern Mexico have discovered at least 500 men, women and children

crammed into

the trailers of two trucks in one of the country's biggest cases of people smuggling. From Mexico City, Ignacio de los Reyes.

The group was discovered at the Mexican border with Guatemala, one of the busiest transit areas for illegal immigration. Mexican officials told the BBC that they were travelling in two lorries in what they had described as "inhuman conditions" when they were detained. Although thousands of people cross Mexico on trains and trucks in an attempt to reach the United States each year, it is unusual for so many to be found in a single vehicle.

World News from the BBC

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