Tunisia will extradite former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi - currently being held in Tunis – back to Libya, officials said today.

THE Libyan government yesterday renewed its offer to hold a vote on whether Muammar Gaddafi should stay in power, a proposal unlikely to interest Gaddafi’s opponents but which could widen differences inside NATO.

LIBYA’S Muammar Gaddafi is willing to hold elections and step aside if he lost, his son said, an offer dismissed by rebels but which could test the unity of the Western alliance trying to force him out.