NATO airstrikes hit Tripoli

NATO warplanes struck Tripoli early Tuesday in the heaviest bombing of the Libyan capital in weeks, hours after an uptick in fighting between rebels and Moammar Gadhafi's forces in the country's east.

U.K.'s Hague Signals Confusion on EU, NATO Roles

A year after explaining that a future Conservative government would be "highly
active and activist in European affairs," British
foreign secretary William Hague signaled quite the contrary when he appeared before a parliamentary committee in March.
His comments showed a worrying misunderstanding of the
capacities of the two key European institutions of which the U.K. is a
member -- the European Union and NATO.