Pressure increases on Libyan regime

Nato widened its campaign to weaken Muammar Gaddafi’s regime with airstrikes on desert command centres and sea patrols to intercept ships, the military alliance said, amid signs of growing public anger over fuel shortages in government-held territory.

In the coastal town of Zawiya, crowds apparently outraged by dwindling fuel supplies tried to stab reporters in a minibus on a state-supervised trip to the Tunisian border.