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The anti-Gaddafi uprising, the bloodiest yet against a long-serving ruler in the Arab world, has knocked out nearly half the country’s daily oil output of 1.6million barrels, the bedrock of its economy. Fierce fighting raged in five towns and cities yesterday following Friday prayers, with both pro-Gaddafi and rebel forces launching offensives and counter-offensives. Witnesses reported 50 dead and 300 wounded in the key city of Zawiyah, 30 miles west of the capital Tripoli, in an intensive artillery barrage by Gaddafi’s forces on a heavily-populated civilian area. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1362962/Major-Libyan-oil-plant-ablaze-rebellions-erupt-Tripoli-Friday-prayers.html#ixzz1FgjvKAhw