U.S., Europe Struggle to Evacuate Their Citizens From Libya
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The U.S. and European governments struggled to evacuate thousands of their citizens from Libya as spiraling violence in the capital Tripoli kept foreigners stranded and chaos began to spread to the rest of the country.
Alitalia SpA, which flew about 800 Italians out of Libya yesterday, suspended flights to Tripoli because passengers were unable to reach departure gates and Germany’s Deutsche Lufthansa AG canceled all flights to Tripoli at least through the weekend. A ferry bound for Malta that began to evacuate several thousand U.S. citizens from Libya was delayed because of high seas, State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley said yesterday.