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The ferocious counterattacks on a Ras Lanuf oil refinery, near Kadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, and at Bani Walid near Tripoli came as a US official said Niger was ready to detain one of the elusive leader’s sons, Saadi, after he fled over the border.

“It is not possible to give Libya to the colonists again,” and “all that remains for us is the struggle until victory and the defeat of the coup,” Kadhafi said in a statement read out on Syria-based Arrai Oruba television.

Cameron met Medvedev for talks focusing on Syria and bilateral disputes as global frustration mounted with Russia’s continued support of its ally despite President Bashar al-Assad’s months-long repression of nationwide protests.

A visiting aide to Assad said 1,400 people — half of them Syrian security and army forces — had died in violence since the demonstrations erupted in mid-March and rejected an estimate of 2,600 deaths from UN human rights chief Navi Pillay.

Conde, in an interview with the private Senegalese radio station Sud FM broadcast on Sunday, said a rocket attack on his home had been plotted in Dakar, and he suspected the two governments were aware of it.

“The Gambia would like to state that it did not have any involvement or prior information surrounding the attempted assassination of the Guinean president,” read a statement from the foreign ministry.

Parliament approved “the military option” in Blue Nile, where rebels have close historic links with newly independent South Sudan, the head of a committee dealing with emergency matters said.

“Parliament approves the military option to fight the rebellion against Blue Nile state, and orders the authorities concerned to proceed in applying this decision without taking negotiations into account,” Ismail al-Haj Mussa said.

Stocks tumbled in Asia and nosedived in early trading in Europe as markets appeared to dismiss weekend promises by Greece on deficit cuts as too little too late, while worrying about stretched European banks.

After powerhouse Germany warned of a possible worst-case “orderly default” for Greece, the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos on Sunday announced plans to slice an extra two billion euros ($2.7 billion) off the deficit.

Cameron’s talks with Medvedev in the Kremlin and his later meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin — the first high-profile bilateral contacts since 2005 — underscored Britain’s desire to put its rocky relation with Moscow on a more pragmatic footing.

While the British and Russian leaders acknowledged differences remained over the poisoning case and that they did not see eye to eye on Syria, Cameron in his talks with Russia’s ruling tandem stressed the desire to turn over a new leaf as they oversaw trade deals worth more than $300 million.

Hogan-Howe, the acting deputy commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), made his name by cutting crime as head of the Merseyside force covering Liverpool.

As the Met’s new commissioner, he faces the task of rebuilding its reputation after his predecessor Paul Stephenson quit over the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World tabloid.

Saab has struggled for weeks to raise cash and its employees have not been paid August wages. Monday’s move by the Unionen and Ledarna unions paves the way for workers to get paid through a state wage guarantee.

“The request has been submitted because Unionen’s members have still not received their August wages and the deadline Unionen has given Saab has expired,” Unionen said in a statement.

The job cuts, which represent just over 10 percent of BofA’s workforce, will be carried out “over the next few years”, the bank said in a statement.

Notably, the announcement came the same morning that US President Barack Obama demanded that Congress pass his $447 billion jobs bill, aimed at reducing the country’s stubbornly high 9.1 percent unemployment rate.

The president, seeking to reset his under-pressure presidency and slice away at 9.1 percent unemployment, sent the bill to lawmakers and warned Republicans not to slow it down with “political games” at a time of great national urgency.

But Obama, by deciding to finance the bill by ending tax breaks for oil and gas firms and individuals earning over $200,000, set up a new showdown with his political foes — who have already rejected such methods in the past.