French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Tuesday that France had had "contacts" with the Libyan regime concerning the departure of leader Moamer Kadhafi but no real negotiations had taken place.
AJDABIYA, Libya – Libyan rebels were driven back some 200 kilometres by the superior firepower of Moamer Kadhafi's forces on Wednesday in a chaotic stampede which saw them yield most of the ground their recent advances had secured.
The Sex Pistols music blares out incongruously from Rome's stately Villa Medici, once home to powerful aristocracy and now the prestigious French Academy which is staging the first ever retrospective into Punk visual art.
