BBC News with Fiona MacDonald
Rebel forces are reported to have taken control of a crossing on Libya's western
frontier
with Tunisia after a clash with forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi. Reports say the rebels attacked a post at Dehiba in the western mountains,
prompt
ing dozens of soldiers to flee into Tunisia. Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports from the Libyan capital Tripoli.
So it seems there was a clash. Maybe 13 Libyan soldiers, including a brigadier, crossed into Tunisia and
surrender
ed their weapons because they were fleeing essentially from the rebels there who then seized control of the frontier post. There have(口误There's) been clashes of different sorts going on in the western mountains as they're known. For
some time
, very little information comes out of there. The people who live there are mainly Berbers. They have a long record of opposition to the government here in Tripoli.
Efforts are continuing to
evacuate
more injured Libyans and migrant workers from the besieged city of Misrata on Libya's western coast.
The United Nations says it's giving the government of Sri Lanka an opportunity to
lodge
a response to a disputed and as yet unpublished report into the end of the country's civil war with the separatist Tamil Tigers. From the UN headquarters in New York, Barbara Plett.
A spokesman for the secretary general said he was seeking a Sri Lankan response to publish alongside a UN report on alleged war crimes. Sections leaked to the press say there are credible allegations that both the government and the rebel Tamil Tigers committed atrocities against civilians in their final battles and urge(口误urges) an independent investigation. Colombo has rejected the findings and asked Ban Ki-moon not to make the report public, but the UN spokesman insisted it would be published