Al Jazeera, September 20, 2010

Barack Obama, the US president, has led an international welcome for Libya's new interim leaders at the UN, promising that NATO would carry on with air strikes while civilians are "threatened".

With the new Libyan flag flying at the UN headquarters in new York on Tuesday, interim government leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil thanked all nations who aided with the "success of the Libyan revolution" which he said had left at least 25,000 people dead.

Al Jazeera correspondent Mike Hanna, reporting from New York, described the UN welcome as "very significant" and noted how much the international image of Libya has changed.....

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