Libya: Rebels reject ceasefire plan

Libyan rebels, backed forcefully by European leaders, rejected a ceasefire proposal by African mediators because it did not insist that Muammar Gaddafi relinquish power.

A day after an announcement that the Libyan leader had accepted the truce, a doctor in rebel-held Misrata said Gaddafi’s forces battered the western city and its Mediterranean port with artillery fire that killed six people.