<p>National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters took full control of Sirte airport. They had taken it two weeks ago, but then lost it again. Sirte’s pro-Gadhafi defenders have used sniper, rocket and artillery fire to fight off two full-scale NTC assaults on the city in the past week. <br />Each side has accused the other of endangering civilians. “They’re shelling constantly. There’s indiscriminate fire within individual neighborhoods and from one area to another,” said Hassan, a resident who escaped the city.<br /><br />Civilians have been fleeing Sirte, a coastal city of 1,00,000 that is also under Nato aerial attack, and Libyan authorities have asked the United Nations for fuel for ambulances to evacuate wounded.<br /><br />The United Nations is sending trucks of clean drinking water for civilians crammed into vehicles leaving Sirte.</p>.<p> Gadhafi son on most-wanted list<br /></p>.<p>Interpol placed another of ousted leader Gadhafi’s sons on the equivalent of its most-wanted list, placing pressure on the government of Niger to surrender a man accused of overseeing bloody repressions. Al-Saadi Gadhafi is living under house arrest in the Western African country’s capital, Niamey, after fleeing Libya earlier this month. </p>
<p>National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters took full control of Sirte airport. They had taken it two weeks ago, but then lost it again. Sirte’s pro-Gadhafi defenders have used sniper, rocket and artillery fire to fight off two full-scale NTC assaults on the city in the past week. <br />Each side has accused the other of endangering civilians. “They’re shelling constantly. There’s indiscriminate fire within individual neighborhoods and from one area to another,” said Hassan, a resident who escaped the city.<br /><br />Civilians have been fleeing Sirte, a coastal city of 1,00,000 that is also under Nato aerial attack, and Libyan authorities have asked the United Nations for fuel for ambulances to evacuate wounded.<br /><br />The United Nations is sending trucks of clean drinking water for civilians crammed into vehicles leaving Sirte.</p>.<p> Gadhafi son on most-wanted list<br /></p>.<p>Interpol placed another of ousted leader Gadhafi’s sons on the equivalent of its most-wanted list, placing pressure on the government of Niger to surrender a man accused of overseeing bloody repressions. Al-Saadi Gadhafi is living under house arrest in the Western African country’s capital, Niamey, after fleeing Libya earlier this month. </p>