Security Council to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya, whose membership it had suspended.
Instituting a "no-fly zone" over Libya enforced by fighter jets is also most unlikely.
One example comes from the 2011 military operation over Libya, in which non-NATO Sweden took an important role.
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Our allies and partners are enforcing the no fly zone over Libya and the arms embargo at sea.
That strike may well turn out to be the Alliance's final significant act in the skies over Libya.
The general climatic and weather conditions over Libya are similar to those described for coastal and interior Egypt and Algeria.
Washington wants France, Britain, Canada and other coalition partners to take responsibility for day-to-day enforcement of the no-fly zone over Libya.
Those risks were realized when one of our planes malfunctioned over Libya.
The RAF is also continuing to enforce the no-fly zone over Libya.
Meanwhile, Britain and France tabled a draft resolution at the UN Security Council that would ban all flights over Libya to prevent Tripoli's air attacks.
Only eight out of 28 allies conducted strike sorties over Libya.
But Mr Harvey said he expected the cost of the UK's involvement in Nato operations over Libya to be "modest" in comparison with other operations such as Afghanistan.
Over Libya, he was roused by the activist-philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy.
Moreover, many disputes remain unsettled: with Britain, over the shooting of a policewoman outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984, and with America, over Libya's alleged chemical-weapons programme.
At the end of the debate, MPs voted to back the use of UK armed forces to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya by 557 to 13, a majority of 544.
The hi-tech plane - which has radar equipment that can scan thousands of square miles in minutes - flew missions over Libya in 2011 as rebels fought to oust Col Gaddafi.
So, despite the improvement in the Japan situation on Friday and the declaration of a no-fly zone over Libya, traders decided to avoid the potential headline risk and went back to risk-off mode into the close.
Mr Murphy suggested that ministers had tried to avoid discussing in the Commons compulsory redundancies at the RAF on the same day that Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed that he had instructed the MoD to draw up plans for the possibility of enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya.
Obama ordered the airstrikes with NATO allies after Libya failed to abide by a cease fire agreement it made with the United Nations Security Council early last Friday following the Thursday, March 17 decision to put a no-fly zone in place over Libya to quell government air strikes against anti-government demonstrators.
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Italy has drawn criticism for handing over to Libya migrants it intercepts at sea, without screening them first.
With oil prices reversing early declines on growing skepticism over the ability of one Hugo Chavez to help out his good buddy over in Libya, one might have expected to see stock prices give up those big gains and take a swan dive into the close.
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Mogas 90 of Benin Republic earned a slim 1-0 win over Al Nassr of Libya, Sudan's El Mereikh got a similar home win over Zambia's Green Buffaloes, while Saint Louis of Seychelles earned a 2-2 draw with Madagascar's Transfoot.
They were suspended in 1999 after Libya handed over the two suspects for trial.
Obama endorsed military action against Libya following over a week of violence against anti-government rebels there.
In Washington, President Obama has faced criticism that he is being too cautious over the turmoil in Libya.
Caught out in 2003, Libya handed over both the design and information that helped expose the Khan network.
The plans for closer military co-operation come after the UK and France worked together over the crisis in Libya last year.
While the UK was not "sitting on the sidelines", there were more constraints over Syria than in Libya - there was no authority for military intervention from the UN, the effect on surrounding countries such as the Lebanon, Israel and Saudi Arabia had to be taken into account and military intervention would have to be "on a vastly greater scale" than in Libya.
France had threatened to hold up the lifting of U.N. sanctions imposed on Libya for the 1988 bombing of the Pan Am 103 airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, if Libya did not satisfy the UTA families' demands.
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