Libya celebrates, as officials of the interim government say the country's former leader Moammar Gadhafi has been killed, and other members of his inner circle captured or also dead. Obama gives a speech, hailing the demise of Gadhafi but says this is a warning to other authoritarian strongmen across the Middle East that iron-fisted rule “inevitably comes to an end.”
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Islamabad, where she is expected to deliver a blunt warning to Pakistan to remove Taliban safe havens on its soil.
Turkey has gone into neighboring northern Iraq. This in response to the killing of 24 Turkish soldiers in attacks by the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, some of whom are based across the border in Iraq. Outrage over the killings among the Turkish public continues to grow.
To nobody's surprise, Iran has slammed a report from a United Nations investigator that cites a "dramatic increase" in executions in Tehran along with other alleged human rights abuses.
In Kuwait, the British Embassy is temporarily closed, following a credible terrorist threat.
Details after the break.
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