Tripoli: A human rights campaign group has accused pro-government forces in Libya of using cluster bombs, which are banned by more than 100 countries. Human Rights Watch said one of its photographers had seen three mortar-launched projectiles explode over a residential area of Misrata. A Libyan government spokesman denied the allegation.
Government troops have intensified their siege of Misrata, the only west Libyan city still in rebel hands.
Media reports say that local residents fear a massacre without greater action by Nato air forces to break the siege.
A meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Berlin has ended without a commitment from non-participating states to contribute warplanes despite an appeal by Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
The US, UK and France have said in a joint statement that the threat to Libyan civilians will not disappear while Colonel Muammar Gaddafi remains in power.
Russia suggested Nato was exceeding its UN Security Council mandate to protect civilians.
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