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Gaddafi refuses to quit, calls for talks with US, France

 Muammar Gaddafi said he will not quit power and called for negotiations with the United States and France to end the Libyan 
conflict, in a speech aired on television early on Saturday.

NATO "must abandon all hope of the departure of Muammar Gaddafi. I have no official functions to give up: I will not leave my country and will fight to 
the death," he said in a speech marking the centenary of a battle against Italian occupation forces.

"We are ready to talk with France and the United States, but with no preconditions," he said.

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Gaddafi forces attack key port of Misrata

Muammar Gaddafi's forces attacked the key port in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata with rockets on Tuesday, wounding refugees and forcing a humanitarian ship to stay out to sea.

Several Grad rockets hit the port 12 kilometres east of the city and an International Organisation for Migration (IOM) ship that had come to rescue refugees stood offshore as a precaution, an AFP journalist said.

The attack came after a lull in fighting as rebels in Misrata said they pushed forces loyal to Gaddafi out of the city, although the Libyan strongman remained defiant despite NATO bombing h

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