U.S. Sends Refugee Aid as Pressure Grows on Qaddafi to Quit

The international community intensified pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to quit, as clashes were reported near the capital and the U.S. and its allies threatened to impose a no-fly zone to prevent his forces from launching air strikes against opposition-held areas.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, after meeting with foreign ministers in Geneva, said the U.S. is responding to the refugee crisis by allocating $10 million for humanitarian assistance and immediately sending aid teams to the Tunisian and Egyptian borders with Libya. The foreign ministers discussed sanctions on Qaddafi’s regime and other measures to “support the Libyan people,” she said.