French foreign minister Alain Juppe said on Thursday that coalition airstrikes against Libya had been a "success" and would continue, while denying civilians had been targeted.

One of the US aviators who ejected from a fighter jet that crashed in Eastern Libya found himself surrounded by curious locals who served him juice and thanked his country for bombing forces loyal to ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

Gravely concerned over "continuing violence, strife and deteriorating humanitarian situation" in Libya, India on Monday regretted the air strikes by US-led coalition and called upon all parties to abjure use of force and resolve their differences through peaceful means.

India on Monday expressed regret over the Western air strikes in Libya and called for an end to hostilities. "The need of the hour is cessation of the conflict," external affairs minister S.M. Krishna told reporters here. He said India viewed with "grave concern the ongoing violence and strife and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Libya.

Explosions rocked Tripoli as Western forces staged fresh air strikes to halt Muamar Gaddafi's attacks on civilians, with one raid flattening a building in the strongman's heavily-fortified residence.

The CPI(M) on Monday termed as a "dangerous act of aggression" the aerial strikes in Libya by US-led coalition forces and said it was a "calculated intervention" in an internal conflict.

Agence France-Presse journalists Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt, have been missing since on Saturday morning in Libya while working in the Eastern Tobruk region, the agency said on Sunday.

Libya's rebel stronghold of Benghazi came under attack on Saturday morning, with at least two air strikes and sustained shelling of the city's south sending thick smoke into the sky.

Yemen seethed with anger today as medics raised the death toll from a sniper attack on protesters to 52 and thousands rallied despite a state of emergency imposed by the autocratic regime.

The United Nations’ humanitarian chief on Thursday added her voice to the chorus of leaders expressing concern about Bahrain's bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters.