Russia presses Nato on Libya deaths

Russia has urged Nato to investigate civilian deaths in Libya from its bombing campaign, saying the alliance’s claim that there were no non-military casualties is untrue.

Russia’s United Nations ambassador Vitaly Churkin said he had been asking Nato to give “a definitive report” to the UN Security Council summing up its activities in Libya. But he said “unfortunately” the alliance only provided “piecemeal, rather perfunctory reports... (that) were not very informative”.