Libyan rebels advance again

Libyan rebels pushed into the strategic oil town of Brega today but came under fire from Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, as a government envoy began a diplomatic push in Europe to discuss an end to the fighting.

Brega has been the site of battles during weeks of back-and-forth battling along Libya’s eastern coast. Today the town was under rebel control although there were bursts of artillery and shelling.